We really are being spied on!!!

[MoKelly]

Guess I have more to worry about than my shadow. Sure glad I'm taking that course in Russian. Just think how much foreign interference is making our lives miserable. Serves us right for being targets.

Homeland security has “flags” out there for folks who want to learn Russian. We need to know who these folks are, why they want to learn Russian and what they are up to in the future.

Now you’ve done it!

MoKelly

 

[PILOON]

Just let's say, they happen to change a law that suddenly makes you a criminal? Not that "THEY" would ever do something like that.

YOU could even suddenly be labelled and sought as a DOMESTIC TERRORIST"

Happened here in Canada! (with hand guns)
They suddenly changed laws for minimal barrels on hand guns.
Was formerly 2 inches and they upped that to 4 inches making my 6 shot revolver unlawful to own.
OK, it was a cheap buy but still has me PO'd.
So if a LEO comes to my home I could go to jail.

OK, was told to cut it up and turn it in so that I would then be able to renew my permits.
Reluctant to destroy something that is still good, besides I live in the boonies and having it there is a comforting feeling.
The comedy of it all is that my 6 inch S&W .38 is still lawful, and registered, as all my other hunting guns.
FYI, I also used to have a 'carry' permit foe which I went thru tons of loops to get that.

My take is that that 4" law change was simply to make the pressure groups happy.

 

[SylvainG]

Happened here in Canada! (with hand guns)
They suddenly changed laws for minimal barrels on hand guns.
Was formerly 2 inches and they upped that to 4 inches making my 6 shot revolver unlawful to own.
OK, it was a cheap buy but still has me PO'd.
So if a LEO comes to my home I could go to jail.

Actually, that's a good example of the point I was making. They wouldn't charge you because you HAD the gun. They will charge you if you STILL have the gun and it's STILL operational.

 

[Industrial Toys]

God help you if they come for the firearm and see a Dr. Seuss Book on the coffee table! You'd be tazzered and taken off for re-education!

 

[Jstpssng]

Was watching something on personal digital security. If you have a phone and credit/debit cards you really can't hide. Virtually impossible. If they can't find you via GPS, they can find you through triangulation, and then where you used your cards. Good reason to KEEP a CASH SYSTEM.

You can't hide anyways. I wouldn't dare guess how many cameras we go past over the course of a day. When you get gas at most places you are on camera. Drive past an ATM machine, they may be able to pick you out. Many traffic control lights have cameras, to say nothing of all of the dash cams out there today. Many public buildings have cameras... if somebody wants to find you bad enough it's going to happen. I don't like it, yet prefer not to lose sleep over things I can't control.

 

[BleedingOrange]

Yup, facial recognition provides tracking as well.

 

[SylvainG]

God help you if they come for the firearm and see a Dr. Seuss Book on the coffee table! You'd be tazzered and taken off for re-education!

This ain't China

 

[Industrial Toys]

WE ARE SPEEDING DOWN THAT ROAD. WAKE UP!

I am not a normal consumer. So they don't bombard me because I looked at something. That wouldn't even bother me.

But having ones every move tracked and probably recorded like some wild animal with a radio collar, bothers me. Having every text, E-Mail and phone call recorded doesn't thrill me either.

 

[/pine]

The latest plugs and switches I bought were



They normally use a cloud based system called and controlled through an app called smartlife. But you can flash them "over the air" using a computer and a cell. Look up "tuya convert"

Manufacturers are waking up and making it harder to do that by updating the firmware process (it's a hole in the current update process that allows to install another firmware) or changing the hardware to make it incompatible with Tasmota.

Another option is to use Sonoff devices, which was the intended target for Tasmota but they are more cumbersome to use IMHO.

Home Assistant can run on a Raspberry Pi 3b and 4. They cost around $100 for a system with SD card, power supply and case. You simply install Home Assistant on the SD card and put it in the Raspberry Pi. Nothing more to it to install. Then it's the configuration that will take the most time. Their community forum and discord channel are very active and usually get an answer the same day if not hour.

Home Assistant can support Zigbee and Z-Wave devices as well as over 100 different integrations. My latest integration is speedtest.net in my Home Assistant at the cottage. When I'm not there, it will test the Internet speed once per hour and report its speed in a graph. I want to document my DSL internet speed so I can open an incident with them if it's not what I pay for.

You can do the same thing with a simple .bat file in windows or a shell script in Linux etc...

 

[bmaverick]

In keeping with the subject of spying...a feature of the new forum script hyperlinks user locations to Google maps...just curious how close they got yours considering...

With my protonVPN, they think I'm in Canada. I can change to another country too.