Featured Big Brother alert: Cameras in the cable box to monitor TV viewers

C'mon Don, Poncho don't do pools. You know what people do in pools? Yuck!

If we'll accept the notion that our president can execute us for being "suspected" of a crime I see no reason why we'd not accept having all our gadgets spying on us.

It's all good. The government and it's corporate sponsors love us.

That's why they lie to us and use any excuse to gain more control over us. Ya never wanna let a good crisis go to waste!

Speaking of Big Brother, look what else he can do.


Given that the NSA is tapping into your phone calls and spying on your Internet activities, you might have switched to a search engine which is more privacy-conscious.

You might have started using encrypted communications. After all, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the leading electronic privacy group – the Electronic Frontier Foundation – say that encryption helps to protect privacy. On the other hand, Tech Dirt points out that the NSA might consider you suspicious if you encrypt information, and so hold onto your data until they can decrypt it.

The above are all issues about which you are at least somewhat aware.

But there is a giant type of snooping which you probably don’t even know about. Specifically, ABC News reported in 2006:

CONTINUE . . .

Indeed, commercially-available, off-the-shelf software allows people to spy on you:


Sweet! Don't you feel safer knowing the FBI and anyone else that has this technology can listen in on all your conversations? Better watch out what you and the better half talk about.

The in laws or the kids might just be listening in! :smilewinkgrin: