Say Goodbye to Skype

[Spiced_Rum]

If someone is listening in to my phone calls, do you think they would provide an answer service for any missed calls when I am out?

[Wolferz]

Goodbye Skype. I never used ye.

[Rockin Robbins]

I think that not only should terrorists have complete privacy and security while conspiring, but that we should have to provide it at our cost. What kind of a world is it where good guys can't plan to blow stuff up without meddlers?

[Sailor Steve]

I plot evil schemes with Mr J and Mr P, and sometimes Mr McB on Skype all the time. I'm still here.

For the time being anyway.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I plot evil schemes with Mr J and Mr P, and sometimes Mr McB on Skype all the time. I'm still here.

For the time being anyway.

Are you still here?

Perhaps you have already been arrested and put in one of the American gulags and (cue dramatic music) "The Government" has taken over your account and is now impersonating you here in order to decisive us.

Hmmmm

How do we know who you are and that you are who you claim to be instead of who the government wants us to believe who your are?

(my head hurts)

[vienna]

I'm always amused when I read posts or see reports in the media about how the gubbamint is using this or that website/social media/app or wahtever to spy on the poor private citizen. The reality is the Gubbamint doesn't really have to do anything to get data on anyone and everyone. A truly surprising number of people (some of whom are the ones complaining) freely give away a mass of information about who they are, what they are, what they do, where they are, and any and all number of vital facts to commercial interests in return for the 'latest' new social media whoop-dee-doo, a percentage off some 'gotta have' merchandise, a free 'too good to be passed on' 'special offer', or the 'omigod, I gotta have' app. The commercial sector is really doing all the work for the powers that be and we are cooperating with the process. All the gubbamint has to do is flash a warrant (or, in most cases, just ask) and the commercial sector gives them all they want and more. And, if there is any fear of possible legal liabilty or exposure, such as with the telecom industry post-9/11, the gubbamint is only too happy to pass a bit of legislation to indemnify the industries against the very public they are exposing to gubbamint scrutiny...

Before you fill out that deatiled required form of your personal data to get that 'gotta have', really think: is it worth it to give this all away and just who will get to see this...


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[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Are you still here?

Yes.

Perhaps you have already been arrested and put in one of the American gulags and (cue dramatic music) "The Government" has taken over your account and is now impersonating you here in order to decisive us.

I haven't. They aren't. Trust me on this.

Hmmmm

You're thinking too much. I find your lack of faith disturbing.

How do we know who you are and that you are who you claim to be instead of who the government wants us to believe who your are?

Trust me. Trust me. You will obe...believe me. You will believe me.

(my head hurts)

Good! It's working! I'm sorry to hear it. I'll send you some medication for that. In the meantime keep your cell phone pressed firmly against your ear.

[Wolferz]

Mind your cell phone and be sure to park in the spot where you get the most bars.
Microwave ya later.

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Are you still here?

Perhaps you have already been arrested and put in one of the American gulags and (cue dramatic music) "The Government" has taken over your account and is now impersonating you here in order to decisive us.

Hmmmm

How do we know who you are and that you are who you claim to be instead of who the government wants us to believe who your are?

(my head hurts)

This is just humor (I laughed), but it could be very true ... Sailor Steve could be anyone. After all he's just a name and a whole lot of numbers and a nice signature just to make us think that he really is who he says he is, but it's not necessarily so ... not all forums are this honest you know?

however due to his peculiar personality I would think it to be very hard to imitate him. Jimbuna to would be a difficult assignment also

As for Skype ... I am now getting phone calls from solicitors with the ID "this is a Skype call"

Quote of the week: "What if Nixon had of just burned those white house tapes"

[soopaman2]

I showed a guy how to make a sparkler out of a used up lighter on skype.

I guess I am screwed.

I kinda also shared my crystal Meth recipe, and how to get away with uploading snuff films for download on skype.

I also hijacked 4 airliners and raped 3 women and 16 men with skype.

I wished my mother happy birthday with it too, hope the birthday greeting was not too risque.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

This is just humor (I laughed), but it could be very true ... Sailor Steve could be anyone. After all he's just a name and a whole lot of numbers and a nice signature just to make us think that he really is who he says he is, but it's not necessarily so ... not all forums are this honest you know?

Ah, but Jimbuna, NikiMcBee, Neal Stevens, Tarjak, Privateer and I know each other personally. We have all put up many photographs of us together and apart that have been verified by the others. We have all been willing to share our real names publicly. We talk regularly on Skype and know each other fairly well. I've had telephone conversations with some other members here, one of whom I'll be meeting in person in just a couple of weeks. There are othes who have put up pictures which match and have been verified by others. I've exchanged Christmas gifts with one or two others, who also talk freely about their own habits and peculiarities.

I'm the one who has put up videos of myself onstage, old overweight body and all. Everybody knows pretty much who I am, and if you want to know more I'm always willing to talk. I have no secrets...well, a few I keep even from my bestest friends, but I also have some I keep from myself.

Others, like yourself, are just screen names and nothing more. You are the ones we don't know, but still manage to put up with.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I'm still here.

Prove it.

I think you are a trap. That's why I don't talk to you anymore.

Very economic. Two jokes in one.

Serious, all e-communication is like a holiday postcard, its open and so everybody can read it. If somebody uses any service running over American servers to e-send something he is concerned about, it's his own fault I would say. I would not even trust e-communication if it runs over German servers only. Because then the wire would be overheard, or the German agencies would do, and share it with the NSA.

And using cloud servers for business- and sensitive information is so much beyond reason that I refuse to even mock about it, that stupid it is.

If I were to travel to China, America, Japan, Korea or Russia, and were a businessman or so, I would never bring my business cellphone or laptop with contact lists or data with me, never. I would buy a cheap one at a random shop at location and throw it away when leaving the country. Business-sensitive data/communication would never be passed electronically at all - never.

[Skybird]

The Guardian today wrote that the big US companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft cooperated with the NSa while being payed for, the deal was to design their offers, services and softwares in such a manner so that the NSA can always have a foot in the door. Even encrypting your emails is useless, if the spy is within your OS.

Yahoo admitted it. Google denies it. Especially Google . They obviously do not know what infamous reputation as a datakraken they already have outside America.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Prove it.

Prove that I'm not. I don't even know if I'm here or not, but others seem to think so, and that's all that counts. A god is nothing without his worshipers.

I think you are a trap.

No, you don't think. You're not a trap, you're a prat.

That's why I don't talk to you anymore.

So you're talking to yourself. I still hear you.

Very economic. Two jokes in one.

I've seen your two and raised you one. Your bet.

Your real post is quite good.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I plot evil schemes with Mr J and Mr P, and sometimes Mr McB on Skype all the time. I'm still here.

For the time being anyway.

LOL...I should imagine they find some of our conversation topics slightly amusing