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Originally Posted by Skybird
Oh, I do! I have an according behavior protocol in place since many years both for telephone and internet.
Even most banking transfers I do manually, not automatically or via PC-banking. Some things, though, cannot be avoided (like paying electricity or the health insurrance via automatic debit teansfer - it's mandatory). EC-card I use very rarely, credit card almost never (only for internet buys where I have no alternative), and payback cards and such nonsens I reject alltogether.
If you have any more tips for this "paranoid" over here, I'm a happy listener! 
Nice article, btw, although I did not fully understand the technical part in part 1, but the conclusions from it I got. Now I go to the rest of part 2. |
Thanks for the kudo, Dude. As for protecting yourself, short of encrypting all your telecomm business, Voice AND Data, we're all sort of stuck.
As for me, I don't self-censor at all. My attitude is F__k 'em. What are they going to do? Put me on a destroyer and send me to Westpac? Send me to Guantanamo, Cuba? I've already BEEN there. So I routinely advocate the violent overthrow of the US government as part of my own, PERSONAL, plan of World Domination. In this way, I'm dismissed as a crackpot and as the Abbe Faria said,
"Thus neglect becomes our ally."
Plus now, since I'm effectively broke, I don't even worry about identity theft. If somebody tries to steal MY identity, they'll have MY bill collectors coming after THEM. So here's MY Facebook page picture:
Now consider that I have both:
1. A nuclear weapons background.
2. I've been to Pakistan, Iran and most of the rest of the Muslim world from Morocco to Malaysia.
Think they have a dossier on me?
But I also know one other thing. As a fourth-generation Native Californian AND a genuine Ventura-born Beach Boy, that makes me,
The Last, Best Hope of the Uttermost West.
So, Cowabunga, Dude! Keep her between the anchors.
PS. You also may be interested in my pieces on the Minot/Barksdale loose Nukes episode here:
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2009...cident-part-i/
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010...ident-part-ii/
One quick note on that. More people were disciplined over THAT incident than 9/11.