Has your online data been breached?

[Maverick]

In the link below one can add the email address you use the most or/and use the email one uses for online purchases to see if any site(s) associated with your email has been breached in the past and is floating around on the dark web. After entering your email you will get a email, select 'verify my email' you will be directed to a web site that gives information on the email address you given plus it will keep an eye on future breaches related to the email you entered. It's a little something in keeping an eye on your digital life especially if you do a lot of online ordering.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/notifyme


More information about 'have i been pwned' https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/05/29/password-data-breach/

 

[TexasFreedom]

Of course we have all been breached. It's called "Google". They know everything about you. Go online & shop for anything; pick hot air balloon baskets. Click around there. Go on ebay & look at something else, oak leaf tea (I don't know if that exists?). Go to amazon and search for pink bubblegum. Now go browsing. Any surprise that you'll get lots of ads for those 3 things?

And that's without a single password. You are being watched. And the most offensive hacks will NEVER get listed: our good 'friends' (cough cough) at the FBI & NSA.

 

[Maverick]

That all depends how one has google set up, plus additional ways around googles collecting data, don't log into a google account and use private browsing is the simplest form if one chooses to use google, one could also use a VPN besides, I'm more concerned about data breaches that my email address is connected to like amazon, ebay or any other places I do ordering from.

 

[Gazrok]

I am thoroughly convinced that the web is a product of far more surveillance than we could ever imagine.

There will be times when I've only VERBALIZED something in conversation, just to see it pop up as an add while online. And I know damn well I never actually typed in anything similar to trigger this.

Snowden was right.

 

[Maverick]

I am thoroughly convinced that the web is a product of far more surveillance than we could ever imagine.

There will be times when I've only VERBALIZED something in conversation, just to see it pop up as an add while online. And I know damn well I never actually typed in anything similar to trigger this.

Snowden was right.

Oh you right gaz! I don't care how much security one has and/or how much faith one has in VPN I trust nothing internet related. As far as I'm concerned everything is compromised!

 

[Gazrok]

The weird part, stuff was said in my house, with my laptop in my truck, and yet...poof.

Wonder if they are listening in through the Xbox, Wii, or PS? Not even sure why I keep them all hooked up, I never get to actually PLAY any of them (unless I'm home sick or something).

 

[Maverick]

I know some smartphone apps turn the mic on, I know my wife says things and all of a sudden Siri's on the iphone says something along the lines 'searching internet for....' Some Tv's are voice controlled etc... take your pick who's leaking the info from your home.

 

[Robinjopo1]

You know the new Alexa and Echo . Well, they have to be "listening" to everything going on in your house or they wouldn't know when to activate to a command.

I have no idea if that makes sense, but you can figure out What I'm trying to say.

 

[Robinjopo1]

I know that some newer tv's listen to us.

 

[SheilaT.]

Got a smart TV?

Why your Smart is the perfect way to spy on you.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/03/08/smart-tv-perfect-way-spy/

Samsung SmartTV customers warned personal converstaions may be recorded.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sho...d-personal-conversations-may-be-recorded.html

I'm not so keen on the word 'Smart' when it refers to technology.

 

[Brent S]

Equifax hack exposed more information than we thought, documents show
Every day there are thieves looking for ways to steal your money. Sometimes they steal info to sell, sometines direct theft, sometimes just your habits so they can target advertisements to you. All the electronics have just made it easier for others to get information.

 

[Brent S]

You know the new Alexa and Echo . Well, they have to be "listening" to everything going on in your house or they wouldn't know when to activate to a command.

I have no idea if that makes sense, but you can figure out What I'm trying to say.

I really don’t know why anyone would want on of these devices in their home?

 

[Robinjopo1]

I really don’t know why anyone would want on of these devices in their home?

Me either. Seems too easy to hack. Plus who is too lazy to do it herself

 

[Arcticdude]

I think my phone and TV are only half smart. The TV only works when the generator is running, I seldom get a cell signal up here and we don't have internet. Yet. You can put your TV on a switched outlet and stop anyone from the outside from listening in when it's not on.

 

[DrPrepper]

I really don’t know why anyone would want on of these devices in their home?

I have one. Mostly I just use it as a kitchen timer or help with cooking conversions. I mostly forget that it’s there.

 

[Robinjopo1]

I have one. Mostly I just use it as a kitchen timer or help with cooking conversions. I mostly forget that it’s there.

Might want to rethink.

 

[TexasFreedom]

I have one. Mostly I just use it as a kitchen timer or help with cooking conversions. I mostly forget that it’s there.

I don't understand. Need a kitchen timer? Use the one built into your microwave or stove, or spend $3 and buy one.

Is $3 worth having a listening device recording every word you say in your own home? That is no bargain.

 

[DrPrepper]

I don't understand. Need a kitchen timer? Use the one built into your microwave or stove, or spend $3 and buy one.

Is $3 worth having a listening device recording every word you say in your own home? That is no bargain.[/QUOTE
Nothing earth shattering or top secret going on in my home... I know it sounds intrusive, but who exactly is listening.

 

[TexasFreedom]

I know it sounds intrusive, but who exactly is listening.

DP,
I bet Trump thought the same thing when he said on that RV after the interview "grab girls by their *****". Yup, he said the same thing, who exactly is listening?

Do you think private conversations that you have had in your home can be twisted to prove a crime? Ask General Flynn when he was ambushed and interviewed unknowingly in his own office.

My answer: the swamp is listening. And it is being recorded and stored for the next 100 years in case they ever need leverage on you. Google. NSA. FBI. Chinese, Russians, take your pick.

Let me explain. Information is power. Leverage is taking a little bit of power and controlling a whole lot more power. So take a company like Google. They can store massive data for little cost. They write their licenses so they can store this data and you have no recourse. They record a 20 year old college kid get drunk and sleep with a prostitute, or him smacking his girlfriend. Do this for 10 million young men. In 30 years, some of them are going to be powerful politicians. Dig back, find those recordings. How much power will Google have over that politician if he knows they have that audio?

Think that's crazy? How many years between when NBC recorded that hot-mike with Trump and when it came out? A decade+? Who saves that for a decade? They kept that tape as leverage, and when it benefited them by helping Hillary only THEN was it released.

 

[bigpaul]

I don't own a smart phone, mine is an old basic model no camera. tv is an older model.
I don't do technology, I only use a computer for forums, Amazon for books and Ebay for other stuff, there are no files to back up on my computer, I do have windows ten but only because wife's geek nephew put it on for me.