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Old 10-23-2019, 04:43 PM
 
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bottom line, do not put private information on the internet/cloud/etc. in any form.
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Google and Facebook have now made it possible to find photos of firearms by simply typing a serial number into the search box.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...erial-numbers/
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Old 10-23-2019, 10:22 PM
 
Location: Idaho
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Good tip. Any firearm pictures that I have ever posted have the serial number scrambled or removed. I never did trust "the cloud". That is just a fancy term for "someone else's computer".



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Old 11-05-2019, 07:12 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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Great information. Always blurb out the serial number.
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Old 11-05-2019, 10:54 AM
 
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Facebook was CIA project on crowd control. Tugged along with the rest of the social media. Google is not much different.
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Old 11-06-2019, 06:24 PM
 
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The cloud = Property of Chinese government
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Old 11-07-2019, 07:14 AM
 
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So....how does one document their firearms? I like to snap a pic of the serial, but take a pic on a smart phone nowadays and it's almost automatically backed up to the cloud.
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Old 11-07-2019, 01:39 PM
 
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Disable the cloud on your phone. The result is common nag pop up messages asking you to log into this or that. I just ignore them and close them out.
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Old 11-08-2019, 08:57 AM
 
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Disable the cloud on your phone. The result is common nag pop up messages asking you to log into this or that. I just ignore them and close them out.
But I WANT to back up all my other data.
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Old 11-13-2019, 04:10 PM
 
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So....how does one document their firearms? I like to snap a pic of the serial, but take a pic on a smart phone nowadays and it's almost automatically backed up to the cloud.
You can turn off the cloud backup. That way your pictures belong to you, not the Chinese
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Old 11-13-2019, 04:51 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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So....how does one document their firearms? I like to snap a pic of the serial, but take a pic on a smart phone nowadays and it's almost automatically backed up to the cloud.
They have these new things called "cameras". No internet connection.
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