[Magdalen] Another question

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I'm not sure whether your kindle had anything to do with that.  Where were
these 81 pictures to begin with?  I generally don't allow anything to see
anything on my hard drive.

If it turns out that the kindle was somehow a conduit for those 81 pictures
(and I don't know if that was or was not the case), then disconnecting your
kindle from FB would be the thing to do.  I'd do that anyway, unless you
use the kindle for FB functions.

It is a good idea to say NO to any privileges if you don't actually need
them.  It's a subtle difference from the idea of shutting avenues you know
you definitely don't want, but not necessarily shutting others because you
do not see the actual potential harm, or do not use the function. We all
know what happens when someone lets something go, saying, "What could
possibly go wrong?"

I would guess that you have a kindle which is passing stuff to the
internet. Someone who has one of these can address what to do to turn that
function off.  In the worst case, it sounds like the kindle saw stuff in
your PC that it assumed ought to be shared, and so it went ahead and shared
them.  If there were pictures on your kindle I would not do that anymore.
You ought to have some kind of help desk to consult about how to turn
functions on and off, or some kind of FAQ files about privacy issues.  In
any case, it looks like you need to find where your leak is and plug it....




http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/IoS.html

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/apple_ios.html



James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Jim. My question really has more to do with how all the pictures
> got on my Kindle in the first place when I didn't put them there.
>
> Re the FB question, I don't understand how posting what I thought were
> just 9 specific pictures caused 81 to be downloaded from something called
> ios.
>
> > On May 4, 2016, at 12:49 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have noticed a lot of problems with FB's new privacy policy, which is
> > essentially assuming that you let everyone see everything you've got
> unless
> > you say no.  You can go to the settings area of FB and look over the
> > privacy settings and set them for NO in any topic or subsection that you
> > would hypothetically not want others to see.  With various things you can
> > choose who gets to see them:
> > Nobody, friends, and some other parameters that, as I recall, are pretty
> > straightforward.  Pay special attention to privacy settings with portable
> > or other devices (which is where your kindle comes in).
> >
> > The rule of thumb is that you should never ever post any information to
> any
> > electronic medium you would not want the world to see, because that is
> very
> > possibly what is going to happen.  Pictures you intend for some person or
> > persons should never go on FB, which is not reliable anyway.  You should
> > send those the old-fashioned way -- via email -- or print them out and
> send
> > them via snail mail. The latter may be a bit more work, but it's secure.
> > And, now that I think of it, snail mail is truly the OldFashioned Way.
> >
> > If you see something that should not be there (whether it's yours or
> > anyone's) there is a means to flag it in FB.  That might not be a bad
> idea,
> > since a human will see that and make some decision about it, and you
> might
> > get some feedback on ways to protect yourself better.  As bad as FB might
> > be in the eyes of some, it is truly intent on not causing offense and
> > anger, so if you give the opportunity, they will probably at least point
> > you to a url of a site where you can get the info you need.  And who
> knows?
> > Someone in the know might actually help you fix your problem.
> >
> > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> >
> > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe not as stupid as the last one...this one is for you computer
> experts.
> >>
> >> Part 1:
> >> I was trying to get the photos from the recent RAM clinic on my Kindle
> so
> >> they'd be larger and easier to show to friends. The only way I knew to
> do
> >> that was to email them to myself and then open them on the Kindle. So I
> did
> >> that. But then, seeing there was a Photos heading, I opened that--only
> to
> >> discover that it contained all the pictures currently on my phone--all
> >> sorted into years!  Since I've never saved any to the Kindle before, I
> have
> >> no idea how they got there. And I still don't know how to save them
> there
> >> on purpose.
> >>
> >> Part 2:
> >> I posted some of the photos to Facebook--about nine, I think. The next
> day
> >> I saw that a friend had shared my post, which was fine, but it said
> there
> >> were now 81 pictures there!  Sure enough, all the pictures on the Kindle
> >> were there...it said something about nine pictures being added to an ios
> >> file, whatever that is.  I couldn't remove the shared post, but I asked
> my
> >> friend to remove it. Now I'm afraid to post any pictures to FB at all.
> Can
> >> someone explain what has happened and what I need to do?
>