It's just a matter of time

[Maria 60]

About a month ago I had my home alarm updated. Of course you know the new norm "download the app". I was having a problems with it and today the technician came and had to reformat it. There was a number 34 in red on the top of the keypad and I asked him what that was. He told me whoever shouts the alarm without the app and physically stands in front and enters the password it takes a picture of the person, like this if someone tries to tamper with it you can see the person.
WHAT! If I had a heart monitor machine on I would have blown it up. He starts going though the pictures and it actually had from day one when the installer was working with it. Every morning I physically turn off the alarm and sometimes dressed ok but sometimes in a bra and slip or sometimes fully dressed. He was flicking through the pictures and deleting them but thank goddess he really wasn't paying attention but they were almost full view and if I wasn't front in centre dressed I was in the background when my wife was shutting it off.
Well like I said thank goodness he wasn't paying attention and now I know not to physically turn it off and use the app and I learned how to delete the pictures.
Just another example with all this new technology its just a matter of time.

[ilisa]

The lack of privacy in today's society is astounding. Whats worse is a certain segment of tech bros think taking photos and recording conversations (eg Alexa) is ok. What I would do is get a piece of tape and place it over the camera in your alarm system. You didn't need it before & you don't need it now.

[docrobbysherry]

U assumed he "didn't notice", Maria.

I'm guessing in his job and since u r strangers, he couldn't care less. I'll wager if u had nude photos having sex he wouldn't have cared!:tongueout

[DAVIDA]

WOW!:eek:
Things have sure changed a lot since the mid-eighties when I was installing and working on alarm systems.:heehee:
It will probably not be long before systems will recognize the owners and occupants without even arming or disarming the system.:daydreaming:

[Rhonda Darling]

Or, at some point, HAL won't open the "pod bay door", and you'll really be screwed. (If the reference makes no sense, go watch Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey ".)

[alwayshave]

Maria, At some point we will all mistakenly out ourselves.

[abby054]

When HAL does not open the pod bay door, we know what happened to HAL. The same will happen to any app that outs me. If you look up the scientific definition of absolute zero, it contains a clause about my tolerance for bad tech. I actually do with a vengeance what the prophet told King Jeroboam he should have done with his arrows.

Microsoft spell checker no longer exists on my work computer. It revised something embarrassingly once too often. I ripped it out piece by piece and flung each one into the eternal void of interplanetary space, just like the astronaut did to HAL. It took a while but all evidence since indicates that I got it all. Sometimes my PhD in a tech discipline combined with my General Grant level of persistence and the memory of an elephant comes in handy.

[Rochal Tukque]

If you?re on this site you?re already outed. If you bought girl clothes with your male credit card your outed. If you ever have googled anything crossdressing your data has been stored. Nothing is ever really deleted. I think you get the point. It?s to bad we are so stigmatized by people who would probably melt down if people saw what they were doing. But in today?s Terra Quads of information it?s not going to make a difference unless we ourselves let it.

[BaliGirl]

If you?re on this site you?re already outed.
Rochal, you are so right about all the data that is stored about what we do. A whole bunch of companies like Bare Necessities know that I'm a guy buying girl stuff. I visit sites looking at girl clothes to buy, then I get ads for women's lingerie popping up on other web sites because of all the tracking that is done. And Google knows I crossdress because it autocompletes me typing 'cr' to crossdressers.com.

[CynthiaD]

I have people knock on my door all the time. I always answer the door, regardless of how I’m dressed. As long as I’m decent, that is. I always use my deep male voice regardless of mode. My attitude is: if you don’t like what you see, go away. I’ve never gotten a bad reaction. Being outed, especially to strangers, is no big deal. You need to accept that, for you, female clothing is normal.

[JulieC]

There's really no such thing as privacy in today's world. As Rochal Tukque, it's pretty much everywhere. The world already knows we crossdress. The question is; do the people we prefer not know...know?

For myself, I'll be happy when I retire and I no longer need to give a damn what people think.

[BLUE ORCHID]

Hi Maria, :hugs:, That is why I have @ FLIP Phone, I don't want a Phone that is smarter than Me, >Orchid**O:daydreaming:O**

[Traci H]

It?s a constant battle to protect your privacy when on the web or technology in general. Sure you can use a VPN, a better browser, delete your data, etc, etc. But it?s easy to slip up not knowing what might be happening like Maria found out. And of course there are cameras everywhere these days. Mounted or handheld. Try your best is all you can do.

[Rochal Tukque]

Outed and profiled, I?ll be on Amazon looking for bike parts next thing I know I get one of ? we have something for you? promotions most always girls clothes. They know I?m a sucker for a pretty bra if they have my size. Heck Amazon has become one of my closest crossdressing shopping girl friend. LOL
Hugs Rochal

[Rachelakld]

So now, to arm or disarm - you need to find your phone, use your face to unlock it, find and open the App, show your face to the App, then it will ask you what you want to do, while live streaming your face to someone's server for verification?

4 digits on a keypad sounds easier

I'm currently a slave to "smart Apps" at work, it's just harder, longer and crashes every week, In the 90's I carried 2 ballpoint pens, in case one "goes offline"

[Jillcder]

It sure is Maria just yesterday my wife was scrolling through instagram and of course a picture of a guy in a dress pops up and as she shows me she said I wonder why this popped up funny how the stuff I scroll through on tic tok and other sites shows up on hers. Yup just a matter of time.