finger printing and paying for it!
Different countries - different issues! Over here in Germany the NSA scandal – as in they listen in to any conversation – worldwide - is the main news for the past few days. People over here are VERY, VERY upset. Looking at the most trusted source of news in the USA – The Daily Show – it is not an issue at all in the States. Granted: the German Government pretends to know “nothing” – and it is just a blatant lie, and yes, the German Government is not to be trusted and yes, they just play games in order to get more influence.
I love Apple products; I love their quality, ease of use and their designs. I always followed Apple since the Apple II and I bought most of their (overpriced) products.
To me, as you can tell, an older Apple user, in the past few weeks a red line has been crossed. And that happened by Microsoft, Google and Apple. To my knowledge they all are giving my data, my contacts, my calendar and my pictures and my ways of using my devices to the NSA, other government agencies in the US – and bc the US made deals with German authorities – also to “my” government. Enjoy knowing my habits of watching porn!
However, I started worrying, looking into the future: Governments will become more weak bc they are too running out of resources as in money– same time the Internet will never forget, nor will the NSA!
Imagine: lets say you are living in Greece, you watch porn (like almost everybody male does), the Greek government is part of the NSA scheme and Greek goes bust and they cannot pay their secret service any longer. One has to make a living, right? What will - in this case – prevent those imagined guys from the Greek secrets service to “monetize” their knowledge about me to make a living aka blackmail me? Do you get my drift? Greece will be everywere soon!
How about: some guys show up at my door and tell me: you know mr. xxx: we know that you told your wife you are all faithful but last month you watched 10 dirty movies and chatted with four girls about you know what!
My response? I tell them: it is a lie! Their answer: well, we have your fingerprints on your Iphone 5S….any questions?
To me the only answer is to go low-tech; buy a phone (and yes they will record every word), but that is it. I decided not to buy any more (overpriced!) Stasi-tools from Apple or others like Samsung or MS. The Stasi was the very much-feared secret service of communist East Germany.
Read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi.
Enough is enough! Apple now recording my finger-prints and giving it to the NSA (yeah – you won’t bc of the security settings – lol – nobody sane believes you anymore) and on top of that me even being over charged for the device: no way!
Apple, Microsoft, Google and others will loose customers bc of their betrayal to their customers. People are VERY pissed! The "free world" behaves like China!
We have become sheep and I do not trust the shepherds!
Only a fool pays tons of cash freely to get spied on - and forget the nice colorful icons of IOS 7 - those are like the worthless marbles your forefathers gave to the native Americans.
