Posted on 08/14/2013 9:18:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Dear FRiends,
A FReeper sent me a short list of names this morning that he says he found on an internet site that matched up freeper names to their real names. He says he managed to get the site owner to delete it and we can thank him for that. But in the message he sent me there was also an accusation that the list was provided to a third party by John Robinson. That's bullshit. John would never do such a thing.
On a hunch, I looked up the listed names on FR's facebook page and sure enough all but two were members. Then he sent me a longer list and I recognized many of those names as also being facebook members. I've seen threads run on facebook where members outed their own FR screen names. If you have a facebook or twitter account or other social media accounts in your real names, you may want to be cautious about outing your FR screen name. There are leftists out there and sometimes even anti-freepers who could easily compile and post such lists.
Wow. So that implies Microsoft is actively participating in the surveillance?
Me too.
Please read my reply more carefully.
This isn’t about using your personal information.
This is about taking over your computer for whatever they want.
Hosting porn, routing illegal financial transactions, etc....
You’re supplying them a server to allow them anonymity, and untraceability, for whatever they have in mind.
But, the cops will come to YOUR home address, associated with your IP address.
I doubt it but I don’t even care anymore. I posted to my FB account that I attended an Oath Keepers meeting, and it’s out there now. We are not the problem. Obama is the problem.
I am on the list. I got the freepmail this morning. But I am not surprised. I have never had a problem with anyone knowing my freeper name and my real name, although I can understand some people not wanting to have their real name and freeper name connected.
Let me explain something to you. I have the very best computer expert as my “repairman”. Nothing gets by him on my computer or anyone else’s he works on. If he can not find it, no one can. He is ex-military who rode in the 4th car behind presidents as a bomb demolition expert. He is computer expert for several highly sensitive companies here in town. He can run circles around you or anyone else. I trust him a whole lot more than you.
Let me explain something to you.
The Federal Gov’t issued this warning to contractors working “special programs”.
They were very clear that the this vulnerability has been experienced and verified.
It’s not imagined, it is real.
That does NOT mean that everyone who has an FB account has had their computer exploited.
It means that all who have FB accounts are at risk of having their systems exploited.
Given your friends resume, he should have seen this warning more than once.....I mean....since he’s the best in the world......
What were you doing up so late??? You know I can hardly keep from calling you this morning. It’s only that I feel so bad again today that keeps me from calling you this morning and crying on your shoulder. I’m a mess today. Call me when you’re ready to get a wet shoulder.
I sense there is a joke in there somewhere, but I still haven't gotten it... :-)
Sometimes I reach jest a leeettle to far for a pun...
Only Jim’s favorites were on the list ;-)
Recognized them as the regulars on FB when FR goes down. We manage to have quarterly meetings..... Is that a good thing or a bad thing ?
You really don’t want us to think your Sarah Palin?
AH! Now it makes sense! Thank you!
>> “If I recall correctly Jim, a while back on the FR Facebook page, someone started a thread asking folks to share their FR handle” <<
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That was Matt, when he first started the FR Facebook page.
Oh, ok. That was during my Absolutely No TV period. :-)
those outted were freepmailed ?
My newsfeed was being swamped by posts from some guy who was making a post every time his dog licked his testicles
Another good reason to wear pants.
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hg you are a pain but this is
POST OF THE DAY!
“Smile sweetly at people while The Coffee eats their sanity..”
..and their stomach lining!
Hugs.
But of course!
Revenge is a dish best served with The Coffee.
And a little added creamora for laughs.
Hey, well..... that would be okay too! Except, since I am not half as smart, witty or pretty, that's probably not going to happen, even on my best day. ;-)
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