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Benedict Arnold

Do you keep a band-aid or some kind of tape over the camera on your laptop? I do, soon I’ll be wearing a colander on my head.

Posted - May 11, 2019
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  • No, I don't. I understand how in the age of "surveillance capitalism" someone might be compelled to do that, but I've never cared enough to do it. It looks ugly.
      May 11, 2019 6:44 PM MDT
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  • You should watch that Snowden movie then. It freaked me the faak out.  
      May 11, 2019 6:46 PM MDT
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  • 10993
    Only when I'm getting undressed.
      May 11, 2019 7:21 PM MDT
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  • Oh, what about if you’re having a bad hair day though?
      May 11, 2019 7:28 PM MDT
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  • 10993
    I'll worry about that when (if) it happens.
      May 11, 2019 7:30 PM MDT
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  • I won’t hate you because you’re beautiful... THAT‘S FINE.

      May 11, 2019 7:34 PM MDT
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  • 10993
    I'm not beautiful. I just have very low standards for what constitutes a good  hair day.
      May 11, 2019 7:41 PM MDT
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  • Lol oh :) 
      May 11, 2019 7:43 PM MDT
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  • 53502

      I know, right? Who needs all that pesky technology anyway?  It’ll just ruin things for us.

    ~



      May 11, 2019 7:40 PM MDT
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  • I have, at times, but now that you mention it, I probably should. 

      May 11, 2019 7:39 PM MDT
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  • Yep, stick with me I’ll have you taping up cameras  and we’ll Be wearing spaghetti strainers on our heads in New Orleans. 
      May 11, 2019 7:43 PM MDT
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  • Yesss ... Mardi Gras, here we come!
      May 11, 2019 7:48 PM MDT
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  • we have a pack list now...
    beads 
    colanders
    that‘s all. 
      May 11, 2019 7:50 PM MDT
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  • And tequila. Because there won't be any coworkers there to ruin the fun.
      May 11, 2019 7:52 PM MDT
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  • It’s now on the list ;)
      May 11, 2019 7:55 PM MDT
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  • nope. i want the government to see me picking my nose until it bleeds and crying while i masturbate This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at May 12, 2019 5:40 PM MDT
      May 11, 2019 7:45 PM MDT
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  • You should be charging them for that stuff. Don’t give it away for free.
      May 11, 2019 7:49 PM MDT
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  • Sounds disturbing and entertaining enough to me.
      May 11, 2019 7:49 PM MDT
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  • 976
    I have black electrical tape over the camera on my laptop and my phone. I don't take pictures of anything and I don't want anything taking pictures of me. 
      May 11, 2019 7:57 PM MDT
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  • Omfg I never thought about my phone. I’m going to do that now, thank you. 
      May 11, 2019 7:59 PM MDT
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  • Me too!
      May 11, 2019 8:23 PM MDT
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  • Good! 
      May 11, 2019 8:30 PM MDT
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  • 976
    I'm cute about it and hubby knows it. He is the one the cuts the small piece and places it neatly over the camera. It's small and precise. Did you know that Alexa and Sirius listens and records you too? I have neither of those and never will. 
      May 11, 2019 8:26 PM MDT
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  • I was gifted one of those amazon speaking things but I even never used it. I also have Siri disabled. I have noticed though that I’ve had convos about things and then next day i get ads for them. It’s nothing I’ve looked up or typed on my phone, creepy stuff. 
      May 11, 2019 8:30 PM MDT
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