Is Trucker District platform dangerous for our industry?

I used to be a cargo thief in NY in the late 80’s into the 90’s. I was associated with some really bad people (true gangsters). Since then I have turned my life around. Trust me when I tell you that this is a criminals dream!! The most difficult part of hijacking loads of freight was information regarding what a truck was hauling and when was the best time to pounce on the load. Had this been around is those days it would have no doubt made things so much easier. DON’T DO IT! You are putting yourself in harms way and unlike back then, the criminals today aren’t organized and have nothing to lose. We would never seriously hurt a driver (he might get slapped around a bit or pistol whipped if he wanted to try and be a hero, in the end most times we would put a few hundred dollars in his wallet) because it would bring unwanted attention and wasn’t good for business. Times have changed. I very much regret my past but I do anything I can to try and make up for it now. Take it from someone who knows, nothing good can come out of this app. You’ll be putting yourself into a situation which could very easily cost you your life. I would hate to see your wife go through life without a husband or your children without a father!

 

I just downloaded it. We shall see.

 

I stopped having Facebook on my phone over a year ago because of the intrusions among other things. The good thing about having a Galaxy S8 is that it randomly turns off features like location settings and such. Even with it being an Android phone, it turns off settings that Google likes to use. Another good thing you can do, which I do several times a day, is tap that button that shows all the apps that are open in the phone and tap "Close All". I'm not savvy enough to know what might be running in the background, if anything. If I'm feeling particularly anti-social I just leave it in airplane mode, saves battery too.

 

All phones maintain contact with the towers. When you have three towers being pinged you have the location of the phone down to really small patch of ground for that date and time. You can opt out a thousand times but they have already learned how to combine tower pings with more precision wifi devices to nail down the situation regarding your particular phone. If anyone had any interest in it.

If you are in a house, apartment, room or office building with routers emitting WiFi, it is enough to have a device on hand to process the echos of the individual signals through the walls and determine your particular position. If I am sitting here on this computer on this side of the wall and a police man wants to see if I am here in that particular chari breathing with his scanner, he can see me very easily and does not need a warrant. He happens to be walking by with a scanner that likes to sniff out things people and maps the contents of rooms, offices, buildings and so on.

It really does not matter. If you go into the DC area, you will find that your smart phone is no longer yours. Battery life drains to nothing really fast as harvesters force it to connect and upload whatever is in it without a warrant. (4th amendment does not apply here with the so called war on terror with the lower 48 and DC in particular formally declared a combat zone years ago.)

My solution is more simple. If my life is so boring to anyone interesed in investigating it, they would simply just throw up the hand and say this fella has nothing, he knows nothing and continues to prove it. We would need to move on to bigger and better targets.

Let's say they got the phone. Big deal. Cat pictues and a few texts that have nothing to do with anything other than morning. Coffees ready.

If you really want some fun, check out the recent walmart patent that allows everything spoken in a cashier's checkout line to be recorded and kept for analysis for both customer service and also workforce enforcement. If potty mouth cashier has a bad attitude and says boss is a fink and you bother me today as a customer.. well. we have a problem. I would think it wil be resolved in a timely manner. Pay me for my trouble. lol.

 

Wow, I did not know that about D.C. and about Walmart having that patent! I haven't spent more than 4 days of my entire life in that area, and that was before I ever owned a cell phone, but that is handy to know that my phone will get the battery drained like that. I guess that if I ever go through there, they'll kill my battery while they check out my music library and lots of lame photos of trees and landscapes and a fat dog!

And if being a Walmart worker wasn't already humiliating enough, they just had to throw battery acid on it with surveillance technology too, huh? They already don't want to be at work and dodge anyone looking like they need to know where the butt cream is, so I guess we could step it up a notch with whatever crazy conversation topics we could make up. I was wondering why suddenly every cashier was clamming up like they just got pulled off at a DUI checkpoint and exercised their right to remain silent and not answer any questions for any reason without legal counsel.