- Devices connected to internet leak information
- CIA director says these gadgets will 'transform clandestine tradecraft'
- Spies could watch thousands via supercomputers
- People 'bug' their own homes with web-connected devices
By Rob Waugh
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When people download a film from Netflix to a flatscreen, or turn on web radio, they could be alerting unwanted watchers to exactly what they are doing and where they are.
Spies will no longer have to plant bugs in your home - the rise of 'connected' gadgets controlled by apps will mean that people 'bug' their own homes, says CIA director David Petraeus.
The CIA claims it will be able to 'read' these devices via the internet - and perhaps even via radio waves from outside the home.
A Sony internet TV: The rise of 'connected' devices in the home offers spies a window into people's lives - CIA director David Petraeus says the technologies will 'transform' surveillance
Everything from remote controls to clock radios can now be controlled via apps - and chip company ARM recently unveiled low-powered, cheaper chips which will be used in everything from fridges and ovens to doorbells.
The resultant chorus of 'connected' gadgets will be able to be read like a book - and even remote-controlled, according to CIA CIA Director David Petraeus, according to a recent report by Wired's 'Danger Room' blog.
Petraeus says that web-connected gadgets will 'transform' the art of spying - allowing spies to monitor people automatically without planting bugs, breaking and entering or even donning a tuxedo to infiltrate a dinner party.
'Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,' said Petraeus.
'Particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft. Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.'
Petraeus was speaking to a venture capital firm about new technologies which aim to add processors and web connections to previously 'dumb' home appliances such as fridges, ovens and lighting systems.
This week, one of the world's biggest chip companies, ARM, has unveiled a new processor built to work inside 'connected' white goods.
The ARM chips are smaller, lower-powered and far cheaper than previous processors - and designed to add the internet to almost every kind of electrical appliance.
It's a concept described as the 'internet of things'.
The murderous computer Hal in 2001: But it seems that the danger of computers isn't villainous artificial intelligence - but the information they 'leak' about us
Futurists think that one day 'connected' devices will tell the internet where they are and what they are doing at all times - and will be mapped by computers as precisely as Google Maps charts the physical landscape now.
Privacy groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation have warned of how information such as geolocation data can be misused - but as more and more devices connect, it's clear that opportunities for surveillance will multiply.
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Twana...don't know if you guys have posted anything about this...I just found out.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-ord...
https://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/president-oba...
1984--and Animal Farm -were intended as warnings of what was intended by an overreaching State. Road to Serfdom was likewise a warning-one written from a State already governed by Socialist ideology. Most high school kids read these as interesting fiction. Many educators and mere politicians -and those in the fold that were spoken of in the old public school primer "the philosophy of the classroom will become the philosophy of the Government in the next generation.(or variants thereof.) saw these as possibilities. Disney presented a model for the Socialist State-for "mass control of people"-and called it Disneyland. Jesus o Nazareth taught " ...how can one enter a strong mans house ,and plunder his goods,unless he first bind the stongman?" And then he will plunder his house." Matthew 12:28. A wise man taught us in military training that the enemy watches his opponent and when we are tired-when we are asleep -when we are distracted -they will come through the wire to strike the camp. My question is are these the ramblings of a madman or a gift to the watchmen?I see them as relevant to this discussion-but the reader must decide for themselves.
WINSTON and JULIA were the only sane ones.........and they paid dearly for that "LUXURY", as we SHALL
If "Most high school kids read", "Road to Serfdom" as "interesting fiction" they don't know the difference between fact and fiction.
The thing about this is if they say they can do it they have probably been doing it for years. They usely keep the public in the dark for 20 plus years after new technology is invented ... How long was GPS being used before the Average Joe or Mary Citizen even had a clue it existed ???
It is more tools for the Anti -Christ & his followers. .. Any Evil Empire big enough to supply you with everything you need is also big enough to take everything you got ,to include your FREEDOMS..Cell phones that take pictures is Citizens spying on Citizens for the Evil Empire. Computers that have cameras on them brings the Evil Empire into your home for a free view.It is your Freedoms that you are giving up willing ..
Facebook they say was invited by the CIA . Now just look at the personal life & personal data exposed by peoples Facebook pages, It is more Freedoms that "We the People"give up willing to the Evil Empire..They have us spying on ourselves ,our friends & our families those are Proven Facts "We the People", Not a Conspiracy Theories..
Wake up America
CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE JUST THAT UNTILL THEY ARE EXPOSED
THEN THEY ARE JUST CONSPIRACIES AND THEN CRIMES
ONE MUST START WITH A THEORY >THEN EVIDENCE>THEN PROOF = GOOD SCIENCE
Get the April 2012 issue of Wired magizine page 78. We have our work cut out !
Back in the 60s or 70s there was a song that said "blow up the TV". There is something to be said for just reading a book.
1ST DISCONECT THE DEVICE WHEN YOU ARE NOT USING IT ! POWER DOWN YOUR NETWORK HUB BY PUTTING IT ON A SWITCHED OUTLET NIT NITE CLICK.
2ND AVOID APPS AND UNNESSARY AUTOMATION ESP THE ONES THAT "CONNECT"
[I DISABLE ALL PROGRAMS IN MY 'PUTER THAT ALLOW OUTSIDE "HELP" LIKE REMOTE REG, REMOTE ASSIST AND OTHERS
3RD MAKE A COVER FOR YOUR CAMERA AND CLOSE YOUR LAPTOP [USE AN OLD SOCK. VERY LOW TECH]
PUT DISINFORMATION ON THE SOCIAL SITES THAT YOU PLAY IN [IF YOU WANT TO GET "REAL" GO TO CHURCH]
DONT SAY IT ON THE WEB UNLESS YOU WOULD SAY IT OUTLOUD IN PUBLIC
[OR SHOW IT ................ASK XCONGRESSMAN WEINER]
REMEMBER BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING .......... 2084 !!!! [ORWELL MISSED BY 100 YEARS]
Anything I say on the internet, or in my home, or on my cell, I'm willing, and probably have said it in public. If they want to listen to me, they're going to do it. Sometimes, they'll get a real earful, and I JUST DON'T CARE!!! I stand on my First Amendment rights, and they can do what they do, and I will do and say what I do and say!!
I've been calling and calling and emailing and emailing, and writing and writing, to get the State of TN to pass the Nullification of NDAA, and to Nullify obamacare, and to pass Constitutional Carry!!! If all the states would Nullify ALL THE C__P, THAT DC HAS PASSED that are in violation of the US and/or State Constitutions, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in. States have proclaimed that they're sovereign, but they SURE DON'T ACT LIKE THEY ARE!!!
We come to this site and lots of others like it. They have have the same things posted on them, some even have the some of the same members, all of us talking to the choir, and those who need to know and understand what we are saying, can't read it cause they have their heads buried in the sand!!!
Are we going to win the battle, or have we already lost the war?