A friend asks:
"A question for you: what’s one of the most important ideas from your field (or an area you know well) that most (even very intellectual) people outside of your field don’t know about?
(if you happen to have a link handy so others can easily learn more about that topic, please also include it, but if you don’t, just the name of the idea works fine)
Thanks!"
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You're being spied on constantly by businesses and the government. If you refuse to cooperate with the government's efforts to collect your private information (purchases, cash/gold storage, crypto wallet) you can be punished severely (worse than the punishment that many rapists and murderers receive).
* Almost all modern printers print tracking dots that allow law enforcement to identify who printed what on which printer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
* If you forget the password to your encrypted hard drive, the judge might keep you imprisoned for up to 4 years:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/man-who-refused-to-decrypt-hard-drives-is-free-after-four-years-in-jail/
If you refuse to give up the location of your cash/gold stores, you might go to prison for 14 years:
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=8101209&page=1
* Buy more than $10 K of anything with cash, and your purchase is almost certainly reported to the government. If you make deposits under $10 K, they might also be reported if they look "suspicious". Get caught trying to leave the country with more than $2.5 K in gold and and silver, and it will be confiscated.
https://expattaxpartners.com/2020/03/12/expats-and-precious-metals-traveling-abroad-with-currency-silver-and-gold-what-you-need-to-know
* USPS photographs and stores photos of all of your mail on behalf of law enforcement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html
* NSA spies capture “nearly everything a user does on the Internet” including emails, social media posts, web sites you visit, addresses typed into Google Maps, files sent, and more.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-data-collection-faq
* Your browser can be uniquely identified by its "fingerprint". So your browsing can linked to you even if you refuse cookies and use Tor/VPN.
https://restoreprivacy.com/browser-fingerprinting/
* All of the information collected about you from any source: government, phone apps, location data, bank, insurance, hospitals, etc is compiled into a massive single dossier of you and your habits by data brokers, and then sold back to businesses and governments.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/04/05/the-data-brokers-so-powerful-even-facebook-bought-their-data-but-they-got-me-wildly-wrong/?sh=3d88daed3107
* Almost every modern computer has secret backdoors built into the hardware that allow the NSA to remotely control and observe your computer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
* Your phone is used to track your position to within a meter every time it is turned on. Police can retrieve this information without a warrant, as you've probably agreed to allow your mobile provider and/or apps to collect and sell this information.
https://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/police-can-track-your-cell-phone-location-history-without-a-warrant-1170152
* The microphone of your smart phone/TV/assistant/etc can be turned on remotely, and used to listen and record your conversations.
https://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool/
"A question for you: what’s one of the most important ideas from your field (or an area you know well) that most (even very intellectual) people outside of your field don’t know about?
(if you happen to have a link handy so others can easily learn more about that topic, please also include it, but if you don’t, just the name of the idea works fine)
Thanks!"
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You're being spied on constantly by businesses and the government. If you refuse to cooperate with the government's efforts to collect your private information (purchases, cash/gold storage, crypto wallet) you can be punished severely (worse than the punishment that many rapists and murderers receive).
* Almost all modern printers print tracking dots that allow law enforcement to identify who printed what on which printer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
* If you forget the password to your encrypted hard drive, the judge might keep you imprisoned for up to 4 years:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/man-who-refused-to-decrypt-hard-drives-is-free-after-four-years-in-jail/
If you refuse to give up the location of your cash/gold stores, you might go to prison for 14 years:
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=8101209&page=1
* Buy more than $10 K of anything with cash, and your purchase is almost certainly reported to the government. If you make deposits under $10 K, they might also be reported if they look "suspicious". Get caught trying to leave the country with more than $2.5 K in gold and and silver, and it will be confiscated.
https://expattaxpartners.com/2020/03/12/expats-and-precious-metals-traveling-abroad-with-currency-silver-and-gold-what-you-need-to-know
* USPS photographs and stores photos of all of your mail on behalf of law enforcement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html
* NSA spies capture “nearly everything a user does on the Internet” including emails, social media posts, web sites you visit, addresses typed into Google Maps, files sent, and more.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-data-collection-faq
* Your browser can be uniquely identified by its "fingerprint". So your browsing can linked to you even if you refuse cookies and use Tor/VPN.
https://restoreprivacy.com/browser-fingerprinting/
* All of the information collected about you from any source: government, phone apps, location data, bank, insurance, hospitals, etc is compiled into a massive single dossier of you and your habits by data brokers, and then sold back to businesses and governments.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/04/05/the-data-brokers-so-powerful-even-facebook-bought-their-data-but-they-got-me-wildly-wrong/?sh=3d88daed3107
* Almost every modern computer has secret backdoors built into the hardware that allow the NSA to remotely control and observe your computer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
* Your phone is used to track your position to within a meter every time it is turned on. Police can retrieve this information without a warrant, as you've probably agreed to allow your mobile provider and/or apps to collect and sell this information.
https://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/police-can-track-your-cell-phone-location-history-without-a-warrant-1170152
* The microphone of your smart phone/TV/assistant/etc can be turned on remotely, and used to listen and record your conversations.
https://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool/