"Trip Down Sketchy Lane" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: mobile

07/08/11 07:25 - ID#54665

Trip Down Sketchy Lane

So my nexus one's SD card died. Not sure what happend, I think it just reached its natural lifespan. Anyways, the card appeared empty but was not totally crashed so I mounted it in linux and ran dd to make a copy of the contents.

Then I ran photorec on it to try an extract the files

Its nice because I could run the photorec right on the disk extract so I had no fear about ruining the car any further.

It extracted thousands of files. Whats scary is that most of the files had been deleted for months if not years. I guess thats the nature of storage devices but holy crap, you think something is gone from your phone and its not.

I would never ever sell a phone ever again. In fact it makes me want to buy old phones just to look at people information.

Once I extracted all of the data I started coming through it for things. I search my name and matt's name. The weirdest thing was that matt's full name was embedded in a Pink - God is DJ song I bought from itunes. What is apple up to there. Is it to prevent file sharing or allow tracking. The weird thing is he never listened to that song and it was bought on terry's account using terry's computer. Somehow they have us all linked.

So basically, all that porn you looked at on your phone and personal information you stored and thought you cleared out - its all still there waiting for someone to discover it. I mean its the same with a computer, but you don't accidentally drop your computer out of your pocket.

From now on, I want everything mobile encrypted like my computer. Its not really an issue with android specifically but with any unencrypted drive.

paul writes at 08:01:03 07/08/11 - Comment #63469: The fragments of website text included huge chunks. It could easily contain sensitive information.

metalpeter writes at 08:01:00 07/08/11 - Comment #63468: that is kinda scary at least you found some porn?

tinypliny writes at 07:54:50 07/08/11 - Comment #63467: You never know... the dead fish might enjoy your music and porn...

tinypliny writes at 07:51:27 07/08/11 - Comment #63465: I say, come and watch the sunset with me and we can chuck our phones into the water over ice-cream and opera.

tinypliny writes at 07:50:33 07/08/11 - Comment #63464: In the end, maybe all those sci-fi paranoia they-are-totally-watching-and-tracking-you movies are true...

I was somewhat surprised at first that Google+ had suggested my name as a circle friend to you.. but then it was easy to figure out they mined your gmail contacts.

tinypliny writes at 07:46:05 07/08/11 - Comment #63463: I don't like itunes. For a while there, (e:himay) and I had a music swapping experiment going. I coudn't play most of his songs even though they were unencrypted just because they have some complex linking stuff going on with the music they sell. The metadata on their mp3 or m4a or whatever format they are using now is all enmeshes WITHIN the song, so you can't strip them out without damaging or segmenting the song data itself.

Anyway, apple is like all_things_jennifer to me. same blind hatred.

tinypliny writes at 07:43:29 07/08/11 - Comment #63462: do you have autofill or lazarus installed maybe?

tinypliny writes at 07:40:44 07/08/11 - Comment #63461: this is so disturbing... and what if some designed some "cool" android marketplace app that people loved and extracted all of this secretly under the broad license and your consent that it can access most of your phone..

paul writes at 07:40:36 07/08/11 - Comment #63460: I don't even understand half of it. There are all of these gif files but inside them are like fragments of website text I visited altogether. Its not cookies but something way more intense. Or maybe its just the cache files all mashed together during recovery.

paul writes at 07:37:05 07/08/11 - Comment #63459: Its so much worse than I thought. All of the things you mistyped when typing things you wouldn't want kept are inserted into the freakin dictionary files. I wonder how much sensitive information ends up in people's dictionary files. Mind you I didn't even explore the actual phone, this is just the external SD card.

paul writes at 07:33:35 07/08/11 - Comment #63458: I searched parts of my social, etc and nothing came up. I would totally use linux. At least you know how to find everything easy.

paul writes at 07:32:57 07/08/11 - Comment #63457: omfg, every song that was purchase from apple using terry's account has his full name it. Only one has matt's name. None have my name.

tinypliny writes at 07:32:50 07/08/11 - Comment #63456: The very fact that I do online banking creeps me out sometimes... and I am sure my taxes and SSN are on this comp. Maybe I should just do all financial and administrative stuff on linux... thoughts?

tinypliny writes at 07:30:57 07/08/11 - Comment #63455: I am more concerned about the lifespan of this phone. I know about how it is designed to die just as the new one comes out.. but hey! I don't want to go back to my lame no fancy screen phone or even that bulky google phone version one.. I kind of like this phone.

paul writes at 07:30:18 07/08/11 - Comment #63454: I never thought about last.fm being involved. I think terry has that on his imac.

tinypliny writes at 07:29:24 07/08/11 - Comment #63453: That is scary. Which is probably why I just accumulate laptops and computers and whatnots and diligently strip out hard disks out of every desktop I have ever owned before giving them to someone (rarely, if ever)

And SO sketchy about that itunes thing! How on earth? Do you guys have a joint account or something? Or do you have a music tracking and taste service in itunes like last.fm?

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: water

07/07/11 09:02 - ID#54661

Damn I want a boat

I feel like my life would be so much better with a boat.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/07/11 09:02

07/07/11 09:01 - ID#54660

Take this mike

I am flicking HSBC tower.

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Words: 7
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/07/11 09:01

Category: people

07/07/11 08:59 - ID#54659

Pretty keith vs angry keith

I think angry Keith wins.

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Words: 7
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/07/11 08:59

Category: clothes

07/07/11 08:33 - ID#54658

Jammin in jammies

I wish I didn't care this much.

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Words: 9
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/07/11 08:33

Category: food

07/07/11 02:30 - ID#54657

Fortune

If happy means angry and proud means irritated, then this is spot on.

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Words: 15
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/07/11 02:30

Category: food

07/06/11 10:39 - ID#54652

Summer Food

Is it just me or does food seem to Tate better in the Summer. This is steak, zuchinni, avacado, and brocoli with strawberries and watermelon.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/06/11 11:02

Category: web

07/06/11 10:36 - ID#54651

Google+

Wow, could it be any more like facebook. I mean, I like it - I like it even more but it feels the same. Its going to be so hard to get people into both. I don't understand how people can possibly have enough time in their lives for all of this social networking. Maybe google is going to do an even better job with it.

tinypliny writes at 01:20:21 07/08/11 - Comment #63420: Its a writing skills killer.

tinypliny writes at 01:18:32 07/08/11 - Comment #63419: Yikes.. this is somewhat disturbing. They spotted and suggested me as your "circle mate"... I don't know if I like this anymore than I "like" facebook. It's the same devil.

metalpeter writes at 05:55:35 07/07/11 - Comment #63408: So Followed the link and from facebook's side it does make sense.... When I first signed up they had ways to find contacts or people you know through your e-mail (so many people alone use yahoo it is a no brainer)... So they don't want to have you find all your friends then google takes you and all your friends of facebook... Facebook knows that it is all about being connected... When two friends left myspace to go to facebook if you follow those two friends then you had to make the jump also....With limited time that made less and less people on myspace... Yes there are some people and bands you can only follow on myspace and things that would never fly on facebook... But the point is they don't want to lose people to google cause if they do then people who follow them will leave also... Think this is why they came out now with all the chat and skype stuff that I haven't used.... Seems like a good way for lovers to keep in touch or find new lovers.....

metalpeter writes at 05:48:19 07/07/11 - Comment #63407: With Cellphones and Tablets? You are the 3rd confirmed (e:peep) that I know has it now (could be more just 3 that I know of).... I don't even have g-mail so..... I'm guessing that they are trying to be the new facebook and then connect things with mail... Say this way you are at the square with say Keith and Tony and you say post a picture of the band... Well maybe Heidi is on and sees the pic so writes a comment like ok now i know where you are stay right there...Your phone buzzes you look Hey guys don't move Heidi is on her way over.... Or you know something like that again I don't have it so ........

paul writes at 11:16:24 07/06/11 - Comment #63401: I found this interesting: :::link:::

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: nature

07/05/11 02:29 - ID#54647

Dying maple trees

I think all of the maple trees on Washington St behind the Allen. street metro station are dying. I wonder what it is.

UPDATE: its killed all of the new maple trees on main st

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/05/11 09:10

Category: holidays

07/05/11 12:16 - ID#54643

Buffalo Fireworks From the Outer Harbour

The spot we went to last year was

well lit by new street lights
packed with 10,000 people

Its like this year everyone knew our spot so we moved out on the harbor into the dark. I think it was the most intense upclose view of large scale fireworks I have ever seen.

Here is the finale filmed with my outdated 5mp mobile phone cam.