Paranoid!

So, at work today I tried to track down a copy of an audio book for one of my kids who is studying it in yr11. It's called 'The Big Sleep' written in 1939 and made into a Bogart / Bacall move in 1946.

Anyways, I find a reading of it on youtube read by Elliot Gould.

this gets me reminiscing about M*A*S*H the movie with him, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall etc. in it. I then look up loretta swit. She's done nothing in 20 years. Anyways - the point is I did a bit of searching around on the movie and TV series.

8 hours later, at home, connected to the net via a secure VPN link, using an incognito browser, no google accounts or the like, I log on to my usual torrent site.'

It has a M*A*S*H banner on it?!?!!! Not even an ad?!

SHould I be paranoid?

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So, at work today I tried to track down a copy of an audio book for one of my kids who is studying it in yr11. It's called 'The Big Sleep' written in 1939 and made into a Bogart / Bacall move in 1946.

Anyways, I find a reading of it on youtube read by Elliot Gould.

this gets me reminiscing about M*A*S*H the movie with him, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall etc. in it. I then look up loretta swit. She's done nothing in 20 years. Anyways - the point is I did a bit of searching around on the movie and TV series.

8 hours later, at home, connected to the net via a secure VPN link, using an incognito browser, no google accounts or the like, I log on to my usual torrent site.'

It has a M*A*S*H banner on it?!?!!! Not even an ad?!

SHould I be paranoid?

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Yes

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Originally Posted by Darren

So, at work today I tried to track down a copy of an audio book for one of my kids who is studying it in yr11. It's called 'The Big Sleep' written in 1939 and made into a Bogart / Bacall move in 1946.

Anyways, I find a reading of it on youtube read by Elliot Gould.

this gets me reminiscing about M*A*S*H the movie with him, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall etc. in it. I then look up loretta swit. She's done nothing in 20 years. Anyways - the point is I did a bit of searching around on the movie and TV series.

8 hours later, at home, connected to the net via a secure VPN link, using an incognito browser, no google accounts or the like, I log on to my usual torrent site.'

It has a M*A*S*H banner on it?!?!!! Not even an ad?!

SHould I be paranoid?

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soon you will be one of us.

Yes!!

It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you

I thought this would have been about Pulver and de Clyne's performances in front of the Senate Committee.

start wearing a foil cap

I reckon!

Funny when a significant part of the rest of my day/evening was spent on cyber security, privacy, social engineering vectors and the like ...

It's got me baffled - i can;t think of the link. Something definitely going on in the Matrix ... :S

Probably a coincidence, but were you using the same computer both times? I’ve seen Google+ try to connect people (who already know each other) at a conference, presumably identifying them via geolocation. Sneaky bastages.

If not coincidence I’m thinking browser signature plus geolocation plus pot luck.

They are out to get you,coach!

Burn the house down.

Now.

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Originally Posted by Darren

So, at work today I tried to track down a copy of an audio book for one of my kids who is studying it in yr11. It's called 'The Big Sleep' written in 1939 and made into a Bogart / Bacall move in 1946.

Anyways, I find a reading of it on youtube read by Elliot Gould.

this gets me reminiscing about M*A*S*H the movie with him, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall etc. in it. I then look up loretta swit. She's done nothing in 20 years. Anyways - the point is I did a bit of searching around on the movie and TV series.

8 hours later, at home, connected to the net via a secure VPN link, using an incognito browser, no google accounts or the like, I log on to my usual torrent site.'

It has a M*A*S*H banner on it?!?!!! Not even an ad?!

SHould I be paranoid?

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Was your mobile phone with you at any time during the earlier research? Don't forget the phone has a camera and microphone installed and these get used.

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Was your mobile phone with you at any time during the earlier research? Don't forget the phone has a camera and microphone installed and these get used.

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Didn't think about phone. Was on 2 different pcs in 2 different locations, but did have my android phone and was using Chrome in both locations.

I'm thinking coincidence, but still weirds me out...

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Didn't think about phone. Was on 2 different pcs in 2 different locations, but did have my android phone and was using Chrome in both locations.

I'm thinking coincidence, but still weirds me out...

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I wouldn't worry too much. Probably just the NSA keeping tabs on IT savvy characters using VPN's and Incognito browsers. :eek:

Or it could be this.

I got a Golf Tip Calendar from my little nephew for Xmas, it has tear off page each day with a different golfing tip each day. On the back of each day is a little bonus, like a sukodo, or word scramble etc.

This is what it had on the back yesterday

35 Years ago on this date...
February 28, 1983
More than 60% of US TV-owning households watched the final episode of the TV series M*A*S*H. The series finale boasted a 77% share of the Nielsen ratings during its original airing.


Pure coincidence I think Coach :approve:

I was in Los Angeles that night. The movie was shown with no ads. They say at the time of the end of the movie there was a record amount of water went through the municipal sewage system as people held off going to the toilet until the end of the movie.

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Or it could be this.

I got a Golf Tip Calendar from my little nephew for Xmas, it has tear off page each day with a different golfing tip each day. On the back of each day is a little bonus, like a sukodo, or word scramble etc.

This is what it had on the back yesterday

35 Years ago on this date...
February 28, 1983
More than 60% of US TV-owning households watched the final episode of the TV series M*A*S*H. The series finale boasted a 77% share of the Nielsen ratings during its original airing.


Pure coincidence I think Coach :approve:

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Cheers - I feel a little better now :) :approve:

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Cheers - I feel a little better now :) :approve:

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You feel better that, in time for Christmas, this sick mongrel not only knew what you'd be looking at on the Internet, but knoew that you were mates with TIF, knew his nephew and convinced the kid to buy a calendar for him?

You aren't really paranoid!

So i just read your initial post out loud to the sweet heart..
She fesses up and says "Oh I was just reading about M*S*A*H too".

So what? The two of you were both doing it? Hey we're a modern relationship over here, but a quick heads up would have been cool..
~ laughs ~