Cell phones being hacked and audio hijacked is really old news. I can't imagine what they're capable of now. My buddy is a patent lawyer who works for clients like Google, GE etc. He works on tech patents. He's said whats coming out is kind of frightening. One piece of old tech most people aren't aware of is the cops have plate scanners in random places around the city. Plates are scanned all the time and if one comes up tagged magically there's a cop behind you.
A number of police forces have them installed in cars so as they patrol they scan the traffic and parked cars they pass and will get twigged when it's a "car of interest".
With respect to any of the "smart" tv's, it's hard to buy any tv that isn't wired or "smart". Personally, I don't connect them to the internet. Maybe once to update the firmware, but then it's off the network so it can't connect back to "home base" if it tried. Most of the "smart" tv's are fucking useless anyway.
Think my Toshiba i bought 4 years ago was the last time you could get a non smart tv with any sort of easy. I know i f9t mine for a deal because they were discontinuing that model of tv and that was the last non smart tv from Toshiba. They are nice from the point that you dont need something else to run neflix and such.
Did anybody see that skydiver dude, Luke Aikins, jump out of an airplane at 25,000 feet without a parachute, and land in a 100x100 net? Because, that was pretty cool.
A repo guy I know drives around checking plates with a camera thing and if your plate comes up needing repossession he takes your car. It's bizarre.
The wonderful feeling you're having right now is the feeling of Gawker filing for bankruptcy. Later Denton, you blackhearted fuckstick.
It is to my understanding that police departments buy/use this third party info as well. So there is a new person at my work that I run into all the time in the coffee room. He seemed to be on the level and had the same sense of humor and references and such. I thought he would be a new work buddy for happy hour drinking. Then on Friday at our at work happy hour I noticed he wore Vibram 5 finger shoes and moments later pulled out a deck of cards and started doing magic tricks. I need a new potential drinking buddy now.
Dude was worth like $200MM not long ago, he claimed less than $50MM in the filing. Yeesh. Way to crash and burn
Hey, I've probably met the most people off this board and only one of them was a weirdo. You know who you are.
Another amazing thing is that a place like Gawker- which is wall to wall garbage, not worthy to wipe your ass with- is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They are a fucking blog, and they employ bloggers. And somehow became a "media powerhouse" by outing people and posting revenge porn. Fuck all of them. Gawker, Jezebelle, Kotaku, all less than trash and I hope every other of the garbage companies like them (Guardian, Brietbart, Vox, Stormfront, etc.) crash soon too.
Kind of, but not really... Denton personally only owns 30% of Gawker stock. In the prior filing he claimed to the judge that his stock was worth $81 million. Which would have put the total worth of Gawker in the $250 million range. But at the same time he was making this swearing to the Florida judge, he had already signed paperwork accepting IGN's offer for Gawker of $90 million. Of which his piece or rather the value of his stock would be ~ $27 million. So he made a false claim of Gawkers' value to a judge in order to put his stock up for collateral to avoid Hogan collecting, pending appeal. And he did this all through public court filings. It was impossible not to notice. He made a bad faith pleasing before the state judge, and proved it was a bad faith action the same day before a Federal judge. Kind of a stupid thing to do.