Now for something fun to consider~
Thinking about writing about/creating a character in your novel that...
Now for something fun to consider~
Thinking about writing about/creating a character in your novel that can live without being tracked?
…Well, if you want to get it right, you will have to do more than write what’s becoming a ridiculous cliché of having your character toss a phone out of the car window.
In a recent Pew Internet study, 37% of respondents said they thought it was possible to be completely anonymous online, However in this recent article by: Sarah Kessler and according to Nico Sell, the co-founder of a secure communication application and an organizer of the hacker conference Def Con the correct answer is “100% no,"
Sarah Kessler is an associate editor at Fast Company, where she writes about technology, startups and social media. Fast Company tracked down the most tracking-conscious people they could find about strategies for staying anonymous. The article has a list of four daily, offline tasks that get more sophisticated if you're writing a character that is avoiding surveillance.
_1. Getting Places
A few years ago, a man who goes by the Internet handle “Puking Monkey” noticed devices reading his toll pass in places where there weren’t any tolls. He assumed that they were being used to track drivers’ movements. “People would say, 'Well you don’t know that, because it doesn’t tell you when it tracks you,'” he tells Fast Company. “I said, 'Okay, I’ll go prove it.' ” …”
So my question, with this summer's revelations of the NSA's broad surveillance program now common public knowledge, do you think if you were to write a character in your novel that can live without being tracked that you will need to write a little more logical than just throwing the phone out of a car window?
Link to article here: http://www.fastcompany.com/3019847/think-you-can-live-offline-without-being-tracked-heres-what-it-takes
Geez, I almost forgot, I have a main character in my book, The Sun they Called The Moon , who is hiding and on the run.
Thinking about writing about/creating a character in your novel that can live without being tracked?
…Well, if you want to get it right, you will have to do more than write what’s becoming a ridiculous cliché of having your character toss a phone out of the car window.
In a recent Pew Internet study, 37% of respondents said they thought it was possible to be completely anonymous online, However in this recent article by: Sarah Kessler and according to Nico Sell, the co-founder of a secure communication application and an organizer of the hacker conference Def Con the correct answer is “100% no,"
Sarah Kessler is an associate editor at Fast Company, where she writes about technology, startups and social media. Fast Company tracked down the most tracking-conscious people they could find about strategies for staying anonymous. The article has a list of four daily, offline tasks that get more sophisticated if you're writing a character that is avoiding surveillance.
_1. Getting Places
A few years ago, a man who goes by the Internet handle “Puking Monkey” noticed devices reading his toll pass in places where there weren’t any tolls. He assumed that they were being used to track drivers’ movements. “People would say, 'Well you don’t know that, because it doesn’t tell you when it tracks you,'” he tells Fast Company. “I said, 'Okay, I’ll go prove it.' ” …”
So my question, with this summer's revelations of the NSA's broad surveillance program now common public knowledge, do you think if you were to write a character in your novel that can live without being tracked that you will need to write a little more logical than just throwing the phone out of a car window?
Link to article here: http://www.fastcompany.com/3019847/think-you-can-live-offline-without-being-tracked-heres-what-it-takes
Geez, I almost forgot, I have a main character in my book, The Sun they Called The Moon , who is hiding and on the run.
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