In exasperation, I give up trying to find a way to clean the scooter dash lens. Not even chemically removing a layer will clean this yellow fuzz. Shown here is the blurred lens just two months after I literally used acetone and sandpaper to remove the grime right down to fresh, new and shiny stratum. And you cannot even read the odometer, which says 11,185 miles. I now believe the auto manufacturers do this on purpose. Why? Because I own other plastic sheeting material, namely toothpick display cases, that have remained crystal clear for over ten years. There is no excuse for the way automobile headlamp covers cloud over.
I learned that the name for this type of data collection is, aptly, “Mosaic”. They slowly gather thousands of tidbits of your life and tie it all together with computer databases. Anyone who thinks Google is anything but a massive domestic spying operation is living in a fantasy. It should not be long before auto manufacturers admit new cars can be tracked. Nor will it be long before RFID shields will be outlawed.
While I admit some of the tactics PopSci is recommended are getting better, compared to my layered in-depth defense systems, they are still in kindergarten. The best advice I can give people is that you do not purchase anything on-line, and establish a completely separate on-line identity that is different and cannot be connected to your real identity. Do not use Google anything and do not install MicroSoft Outlook, even if you never use it. If you must do business on-line, get a separate (used, cheap) computer for business only, never log-on at the same time as your entertainment computer, and unplug the computer cable to your router when you are done.
The best way to protect your information on-line is to never put the information on-line to begin with. Since you’ve read this far, I’ll hand you a couple of tips. Always endeavor to use your enemies own tactics and failures against him. There is no law that says you have to tell Google the truth. They have been trying for years to connect an identity to certain of my other activities (other than this blog). I love infuriating them. Here are two ways to throw off their system.
Change the system hour of your internal computer clock to a different time zone than your residence. I keep mine a fixed number of hours out of sync so I can still use the clock to tell the time. I’ve done this for years, but PopSci printed a version of it (thus revealing the tactic to scumbag programmers) so it will only work a short while more. But it completely baffles most tracking cookies.
Delete your e-mails. Both incoming and outgoing. After 90 days, these emails can read without a warrant and will permanently be on file. If you say there is no danger in that, then you have not been paying attention. The law is progressively changing to use these records for tax and monitoring purposes that you cannot imagine at this juncture. If any contain information you want to keep, copy and paste it to a separate folder on your computer. It is plain foolish to leave personal mail around where strangers can comb through it. Same with your old chats. Delete them all, make it a habit after each session. PopSci also revealed this old trick (as follows), but it bears repeating. Remember that I posted much the same tactic back in the mid-1990s, so potentially huge numbers of people have used this information. And the more, the better.
As for spoofing, which is not illegal, here is the standard information to be put into a “Required Field”.
e-mail: jsmith@aol.com, or some variation thereof if it gets rejected
DOB: 12-17-1985, updated every twenty years to make you an adult
Mother’s maiden name is always: Daphne
Phone: find the artificial insemination clinic in your district, they will talk to anybody
SSN: 567-68-0515, Richard Nixon’s, the prick who made it required for a bank account
Credit Card: 4444-4444-4444-4444 or visit sites which provide Visa & Amex test codes
And if you MUST provide an address, code it. I use “Apt A” but use your imagination.
You don’t do [any of] this under oath or use it to commit fraud--you will get caught. This is merely the standard data I taught for decades to my computer students. One day, all of this will be rejected by newer snooping systems, but by then you’ll know what to do when them bastards at the Miami Herald demand your name and birthdate before they’ll tell you the winning lotto numbers. As if the Herald owns the numbers.
I do like that term Mosaic, though. Congrats to who applied that, it is a very descriptive title for how the snooping system actually works. People who are so far gone like to make smart remarks when others want privacy, but take a look at what happened in Colorado when they legalized pot. People continue to buy from their old but illegal suppliers. Why? Because buying legal pot means you have to register and get put on a list. Even the stupidest hick knows that information will eventually be compromised. So they still buy the illegal stuff at seven times the cost.
Here is the Staples reading test:
[Author's note: to reach 504 wpm, I have to really push it, my normal reading speed is about 20% of that for the simple reason that I read a lot of technical and scientific articles which one does not skim. Also, at top speed I usually have a higher error rate than I scored on this test, especially with reading that includes people's names. Other than that, I read twice as fast as the average Joe. For the record, when I read highly technical material my reading speed drops to around 54 wpm.]
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