Rants, Raves, and Opinions

[QUOTE=Howard5354;2830650]Dude, a real senior is not the accumulation of posts. It is when you are trusted. I cannot begin to tell you the number of tips and introductions I have gotten from seniors. I have did the same. In short, there is a lot of intel shared on the private message site. I made the mistake many years ago in getting into pissing contests but it does not matter in the long run. If you do not like the comments then do as Bruce Lee says, let it roll off you. So what if a comment is worthless or makes no sense. Just move on. Have fun and loosen up.[/QUOTE]Seems you are talking out of both sides of your mouth you can make totally non sensical and worthless comments, but I can't?? Now go get that pussy!

[QUOTE=HippityHop;2831379]Seems you are talking out of both sides of your mouth you can make totally non sensical and worthless comments, but I can't?? Now go get that pussy![/QUOTE]Go ahead and make all the "useless comments" you want. But stay out of pissing matches with the other members in these forums. That would be my suggestion.

[QUOTE=HippityHop;2828888]Well, just like 97% of the comments on here, your comment makes absolutely no sense. LMFAO have a nice night I am really looking forward to becoming a senior by posting tons of totally worthless and stupid comments now go get that pussy! Does that one sound familiar?? Ha ha.[/QUOTE]Mr. Hop,

I might suggest keeping your comments relative to something involving girls, fucking, pussy, mongering and other such activities. It's apparent that Howard's comment "Go get that pussy," gets under your skin. I might point out that Howard has a long history here of posting much valuable information. Now that he's a senior, he's not tallying up posts to accumulate senior status. Anyone with senior status has done three things: 1. Waited six months. 2. Posted HELPFUL information, not just useless posts. 3. Shared names and numbers of providers, either on the board or PM'd to trusted partners.

Once the senior status has been achieved, posting gets a little looser. So we would like to welcome you as a trusted partner in our activities, but we want you to post like a trusted partner.

Coochie (hang in there kid) Eater.

God Bless You All.

Just read an interesting thread on tnaboard about hobbyist having their smart phones apps data mine their contracts. They're receiving suggestions to become friends with the providers they've saved in their contacts. This type of technology is advancing everyday and is all the more reason to keep a completely separate device to hobby on.

I keep my contact information in a werd document on my personal device and do my due diligence via tor. All contact is made through that app or my dumb flip phone that's registered to this user name and has no contract.

Play safe guys. Somebody's watching.

[QUOTE=SlickBanister;2832381]Just read an interesting thread on tnaboard about hobbyist having their smart phones apps data mine their contracts. They're receiving suggestions to become friends with the providers they've saved in their contacts. This type of technology is advancing everyday and is all the more reason to keep a completely separate device to hobby on.

I keep my contact information in a werd document on my personal device and do my due diligence via tor. All contact is made through that app or my dumb flip phone that's registered to this user name and has no contract.

Play safe guys. Somebody's watching.[/QUOTE]When you install Google Voice, it asks whether it can access your contacts. I always just say No.

[QUOTE=Popeyemadison;2832418]When you install Google Voice, it asks whether it can access your contacts. I always just say No.[/QUOTE]I deleted contacts I'd saved to my phone months before getting a new phone. I deny every attempt to data mine that pops up for any app I download or update due. Somehow, when I transferred contacts to my new phone all the contacts I had deleted came back. (Yes I synced the phone after deleting the unwanted information) I'm not sure why it happened, but it did, and I'm not pleased about it. As convenient as it might seem I'll never save another contact again.

I am a firm believer that the more disconnect I can create between myself and this awful affliction I have the better of I'll be.

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My personal experience stated here was months before reading about how software is connecting the dots between hobbyist and providers.

[QUOTE=SlickBanister;2832440]I deleted contacts I'd saved to my phone months before getting a new phone. I deny every attempt to data mine that pops up for any app I download or update due. Somehow, when I transferred contacts to my new phone all the contacts I had deleted came back. (Yes I synced the phone after deleting the unwanted information) I'm not sure why it happened, but it did, and I'm not pleased about it. As convenient as it might seem I'll never save another contact again.

I am a firm believer that the more disconnect I can create between myself and this awful affliction I have the better of I'll be.

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My personal experience stated here was months before reading about how software is connecting the dots between hobbyist and providers.[/QUOTE]I don't save providers as contacts. The population is so fluid and I rarely repeat.

[QUOTE=SlickBanister;2832381]Just read an interesting thread on tnaboard about hobbyist having their smart phones apps data mine their contracts. They're receiving suggestions to become friends with the providers they've saved in their contacts. This type of technology is advancing everyday and is all the more reason to keep a completely separate device to hobby on.

I keep my contact information in a werd document on my personal device and do my due diligence via tor. All contact is made through that app or my dumb flip phone that's registered to this user name and has no contract.

Play safe guys. Somebody's watching.[/QUOTE]In this hobby, it's very difficult not to leave trails that with sufficient resources can be traced back to us. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't take simple precautions, like:

1. Use a different browser / persona, always erase everything or delete the persona.

2. Never use a work computer.

3. Remember to disconnect the work VPN before surfing.

None of these are meant to foil LE.

[QUOTE=Popeyemadison;2832589]I don't save providers as contacts. The population is so fluid and I rarely repeat.[/QUOTE]Damn Popeye! I thought I was a grandiloquent pedant, man, "FLUID" to describe the erratic nature of hookers is not only accurate, but kindly in a hyperbolic and ironic way.

I cannot get the image of Mr. Rogers saying "Can you say 'FLUID'? I knew you could!" out of my head. I will think of this every time a number doesn't work, or I deposit some fluid into a provider's yap, or she tells me she can't do full service because she's on her monthly.

Coochie (should have joined the "Head Stop" program) Eater.

God Bless You All!

[QUOTE=Popeyemadison;2832600]In this hobby, it's very difficult not to leave trails that with sufficient resources can be traced back to us. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't take simple precautions, like:

1. Use a different browser / persona, always erase everything or delete the persona.

2. Never use a work computer.

3. Remember to disconnect the work VPN before surfing.

None of these are meant to foil LE.[/QUOTE]It's not always that simple for everyone. And uncle isn't going you data mine you they're looking for low hanging fruit

[QUOTE=TNAboard_user]
This is where real "data mining" comes in. Facebook and other social media LOVE "connections" and will walk a long, long chain (literally trillions of pieces of information) across all apps that share data to find them. With a phone number, name, place of work or even just likes and dislikes Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. will invest huge amounts of processing to sift through them to find out that person A friends person B who worked at the same place with person C who had lunch at the same restaurant as person D yesterday who ordered the same album from Amazon as person E through QQ who went to the same event as persons XX through ZZZ. And of course those people for sure want to know each other, because internet, that's why.

You get the picture. Keep in mind that any "cross-pollination" at any point in a virtually infinite chain can make a connection. Think of privacy as an STD (like most Republicans) - if anyone in a multiplying chain of partners has it...you ALL have it.

A gentleman has a bare-bones poon phone with only voice and text. A Lady has a smart phone, but she uses it ONLY for business. Both are very careful to only use them for business, although they have saved each other's number and professional name. Of course, both have personal phones and computers as well. So far, this looks pretty good As long as neither party does ANYTHING on their phones to make a connection, they're good.

But then the Lady texts a provider friend of hers that isn't quite so careful. She has both the Lady's real and professional names in her contacts with both numbers and has several apps that allow access to her contacts including a LinkedIn profile and Facebook page for her artwork business. Now there's a chain linking the original Lady's real name and her work phone. The text is a reference check, and the Lady friend dutifully finds that the gentleman's poon phone number is in her contacts and provides an outstanding reference. Now there's a direct link between the gentleman's poon phone number and the Lady's real name via contacts on the provider's friend's phone.

The gentleman is waiting outside an incall for the Lady that's running late. He gets a text on his real phone about a problem at work and he needs to call right away. He makes the call, but the signal is terrible and the problem is dire. He figures one little call on his poon phone isn't a problem; he calls his co-worker's cell phone, noting that he's using the emergency phone from his car. He quickly handles the situation, and the recipient of the call without thinking goes ahead and saves the number on the existing contact for his co-worker. He then shifts over to playing Farmville on his smart phone, where he's friends with his co-worker. The poon phone number is now connected to a real name.

Both LinkedIn and Facebook now finds that there's a person that has two contacts that match people it knows - it sees a connection between the gentleman's real name and poon phone number via his friend's saved contact, and the provider's real name via the Lady's saved contact with her.

It decides since they know the same person, they'd love to be best buds. Maybe not.

Now, I'm a writer and I'm writing this morning so I spun a long yarn. It sounds convoluted and impossible, but the connections usually aren't that convoluted although sometimes they could be even order of magnitudes larger. But the bottom line is that any cross-pollination between real and hobby universes will make a connection, and anyone in your chain that isn't smart can expose you.

I suspect folks will come out of the woodwork and call bullshit, but privacy is a sideline interest of mine and I've done a ton of research on this stuff.[/QUOTE]

I don't care to get in a public pissing match, but the forum has seem to become a gossip board instead of a useful source of information. Case in point, I looked at the last 100 postings made by a certain member who has tons of postings, and out of the 100 of his postings I looked at, ZERO of them are "reviews". Oh well Now go get that pussy!

[blue]I decided to help you with your dissatisfaction with the forum.

You're welcome

A2[/blue]

[QUOTE=HippityHop;2835213]I don't care to get in a public pissing match, but the forum has seem to become a gossip board instead of a useful source of information. Case in point, I looked at the last 100 postings made by a certain member who has tons of postings, and out of the 100 of his postings I looked at, ZERO of them are "reviews". Oh well Now go get that pussy!

[blue]I decided to help you with your dissatisfaction with the forum.

You're welcome

A2[/blue][/QUOTE]LOL!! Don't blame you one bit. He didn't get it.

I use a smartphone but I use a separate account for everything connected to this hobby. Meaning I have a different Gmail account on that account that can't be accessed from my regular account. I also have a few different texting / phone apps like Google voice, Textfree and TextPlus. The same browser, but totally disconnected from my regular account. This keeps it totally private from people I know, but is it as safe as a burner phone. I doubt it. It's almost like having two separate phones, but actually only having one. Any thoughts?

[QUOTE=Heialak;2835992]I use a smartphone but I use a separate account for everything connected to this hobby. Meaning I have a different Gmail account on that account that can't be accessed from my regular account. I also have a few different texting / phone apps like Google voice, Textfree and TextPlus. The same browser, but totally disconnected from my regular account. This keeps it totally private from people I know, but is it as safe as a burner phone. I doubt it. It's almost like having two separate phones, but actually only having one. Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]I'm not very tech savvy so I cannot give you a definitive answer. But I would suspect that Google tracks the connection and knows it's all going to your phone. Unless you only open those accounts while using a proxy server to hide your server connection.

It's like watching the plane crash into the mountain. You can see it coming but can't look away.

[QUOTE=HippityHop;2835213]I don't care to get in a public pissing match, but the forum has seem to become a gossip board instead of a useful source of information. Case in point, I looked at the last 100 postings made by a certain member who has tons of postings, and out of the 100 of his postings I looked at, ZERO of them are "reviews". Oh well Now go get that pussy!

[blue]I decided to help you with your dissatisfaction with the forum.

You're welcome

A2[/blue][/QUOTE]