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Dec 22, 2016 10:36AM
Best book on the NSA and the world of surveillance, which I have encountered in my reading. If you're all gung-ho about underground bases and the like, this is a title you all should have on your shelves.
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Feliks wrote: "Best book on the NSA and the world of surveillance, which I have encountered in my reading. If you're all gung-ho about underground bases and the like, this is a title you all should have on your s..."Cool Feliks, thanks for the rec, Chatter like a goodie.
Its really an eye-opener. Can even make you sick to your stomach.We all know that eye-in-the-sky satellites can read the writing on a cigarette pack while orbiting in the sky miles above us. That's old news.
What most people don't know is that practically anything transmitted by audio is also retrievable by satellite. Any kind of audio. Any conversation. Any transmission. Any bandwidth. CB radio, short-wave radios, they scan all frequencies and just gather it all in. From every country.
And no, they won't even tell you. They're not going to get a warrant for something they pick up via satellite. Because it's not the same as sending in a technician to specifically 'plant a bug' in someone's apartment. These satellites sweep up all audio, so its not considered invading the privacy of any one, single person. Bizarre logic, but they get away with it.
Certainly, any cell-phone conversation can be picked up--but even if you're using a couple of walkie-talkies between you and your buddies on a hunting trip, that also is available. A sentry patrolling the perimeter fence of a defense installation, miles from his guardpost, uses a walkie-talkie to check in...they can get it. A taxi driver checking in with his dispatcher...they get it.
Only if two kids are playing with a couple of tin cans and a piece of string in the backyard..okay America, you're safe.
Not long ago, people laughed at the idea of hackers and government agencies being able to turn on your laptop microphines to hear you, and turn on your laptop cameras to see you, but now we know this isn't only possible but common.The more we use Smart technology (oh, how they laughed when they invented that name - Dumb technology would be more appropriate), the more this kind of thing is gonna happen. Now even your car and TV can see and hear your every move:
From a Yahoo news article today:
"How Can I Stop My TV Spying On Me?
The publication by WikiLeaks of documents it says are from the CIA's secret hacking program describe tools that can turn a world of increasingly networked, camera- and microphone-equipped devices into eavesdroppers.
Smart televisions and automobiles now have on-board computers and microphones, joining the ubiquitous smartphones, laptops and tablets that have had microphones and cameras as standard equipment for a decade. That the CIA has created tools to turn them into listening posts surprises no one in the security community."
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tech/q-stop...
Still, toys like laptops are so more important than the freedom of privacy, right? ;)
