Big Brother Is Watching
By p1kef1sh
@p1kef1sh (45681)
March 18, 2011 1:07pm CST
I have been frantically busy at the office this week and the last thing that I needed was for my computer to decide that it was time to go on strike. The machine looked well enough. But whenever I tried to connect to my E Mail I would get an error message. I tried all the things that I knew to make it work before eventually giving up and went hunting for my ISP. I "chatted" to Peter. Nice chap. Faceless and I suspect was based in a land far away. However, he told me that my password had changed and that I had not acknowledged the E mail that they sent me confirming that fact. I said that I hadn't changed my password for the internet. "Must have done" said Peter. Well I was flumoxed. Anyway we decided that the computer must have made this change itself! My computer thinks and makes decisions unilaterally!! Soon we will be the slaves of our technology and not the reverse. Big Brother is out there and we built him. Is he watching you?
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
18 Mar 11
That's disturbing. Someone may have gotten your password and changed it so that you could not access your mail--they could be sending all kinds of things, pretending to be you!
Yes, we are becoming slaves to technology. I remember seeing an episode of a show I like where the power went out and all the young agents could not figure out how to do their jobs. The older agent, the boss, kept having to tell them how to do things without computers! 
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
18 Mar 11
Picture this, P1key...power meltdown, nobody knows what to do. Suddenly, old fogies like us become a valuable commodity! We end up living like kings with all the young ones depending on our wisdom, venerating us as their wonderful saviors for teaching them how to hold a book, write letters properly, grow vegetables and hunt and fish. We would go from bothersome to honored and adored! 
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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18 Mar 11
Curiously that is what life is like in most of Asia. It's just here in the West that we view 40 as life's cut off age!! One of my favourite films is the "Secret Life of Bees". Slow, steady and wise wins the day. If you haven't seen it you should. The book is even better.
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@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
18 Mar 11
Big Brother has been watching us for the last 50-60 years. It's just that they now have a more proficient way of doing it!!! YES, we created this monster, but nobody is willing to slay the dragon!!! You interested in the job P1key??? 
@LadyMarissa (12148)
• United States
19 Mar 11
Bend over & grab your ankles...50 lashes for letting it get rusty in the first place!!! 
@ElicBxn (63252)
• United States
20 Mar 11
I do think that work computers should be allowed to look at what people are doing, after all, if you are working, you shouldn't be looking at certain sites, heck, I'm not sure social sites should be allowed even, but that's just me, if you are working you should be working!
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Mar 11
hi pikey This happened to me a few years back and my son expolained why then but it has gone in one ear and out the other.it is now up to me to fight my own battles before phoning my son with an sos about my computer. At least you were lucky to get someone whom you could understand his words. I once had to get some help from thje c
time warner cable people here in the US my own country and got this German woman who spoke a germglish mix of German and English. To reset the blah modem you pull out blah blah blah then wait blah blah minute and reset blah owser by pulling blah and reblah blah bhouser.Okay clear as crystal not!! so I ask for them to send a repair person. at first the repair man was growling at me you could do this yourself. I kept my cool and explained the lady spoke such garbled English I just knew I was to pull out something and too plug something back in blah Blah 'blah. He laughed then thats HIlda shes just come from Germany. I retoreted I do not speak German sir.so he showed m e. pull out this wire in modem wait a minute then plug back in wasit one minute pullout this wire in routher, wait one minute and replug. now reboot your computer and it will let you back on to the computer.So now I know how to do that and have had to twice when the electricity was off here., And I succeeded nicely too;no help needed.If indeed Big Brother is watching me he undoubtedly is laughing his fool head off at my inept repairs. lol. uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 9
@raychieng (56)
• Macau
19 Mar 11
"Big Brother" is changing your password? I heard that this only happens in UK or US. In Malaysia, no such thing happens though. Invading privacy for security reasons. I think its reasonable as long as it does not interfere with my daily life!
@rosdimy (3926)
• Malaysia
19 Mar 11
You may need to have a rethink on this issue, at least on your Internet activities. One Internet service provider used to install a back door program on computers using its service. I use an Internet security suite which detected connection attempts from the server of the ISP.
There is a local organisation which tracks where we go to, supposedly with good intention. Any attempt to download a phishing website will be blocked. I think it is an overkill since phishers usually use the email system.
Several large world organisations do keep track of our Internet habits.
@nannacroc (4049)
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18 Mar 11
Of course he is and one day the men in the white coats will arrive to find out if we are sane.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
18 Mar 11
Oh probably, but I just ignore him and do my own thing. As long as he's just watching, and not actually changing my password, I guess I can live with that.
@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
18 Mar 11
BB is watching everywhere and all of the time. At one time, I tried to limit the amount of my privacy that was being violated online but have decided that it is useless. Everything we submit to the ethertoobz is available for those who have the technology to read. Sounds to me like someone hacked into your email host and thought they'd find out your private stuff by getting into your mail. I would have thought the ISP fellow would have been more concerned. I think you should be and change the pw to something else.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
18 Mar 11
Big brother can watch me all day long and I suppose from time to time he takes a nap. Being that I travel the world wide web as often as I do big brother would not dare touch my passwords.
I guess big brother is afraid that I might just bite back because Norton's Symantec would bite that hand.
