George Orwell was right, but 30 years late

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greennick said:
It's not recording all your conversations though, it's merely sending the commands you give it for further processing. If you don't want to utilise the feature, you can turn it off. It's far less susceptible to hacking than a wireless camera that so many people use for security.

You can always revisit whether it is a greater issue if the uses are expanded, however it is ridiculous to hold them to account for what MIGHT happen in the future if the use of this goes from the mundane to the ridiculous.
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Anything connected to the internet can be hacked into and the utilities such as the mic/camera activated without the user knowing and without any evidence such as the light on the camera activating.
 
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0LK1QV20150216?irpc=932

Demonic Ascent said:
Anything connected to the internet can be hacked into and the utilities such as the mic/camera activated without the user knowing and without any evidence such as the light on the camera activating.
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Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program
By Joseph Menn
SAN FRANCISCO | Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:10pm EST
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives.

That long-sought and closely guarded ability was part of a cluster of spying programs discovered by Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security software maker that has exposed a series of Western cyberespionage operations.

Kaspersky said it found personal computers in 30 countries infected with one or more of the spying programs, with the most infections seen in Iran, followed by Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Mali, Syria, Yemen and Algeria. The targets included government and military institutions, telecommunication companies, banks, energy companies, nuclear researchers, media, and Islamic activists, Kaspersky said. (http://reut.rs/1L5knm0)

The firm declined to publicly name the country behind the spying campaign, but said it was closely linked to Stuxnet, the NSA-led cyberweapon that was used to attack Iran's uranium enrichment facility. The NSA is the agency responsible for gathering electronic intelligence on behalf of the United States.

A former NSA employee told Reuters that Kaspersky's analysis was correct, and that people still in the intelligence agency valued these spying programs as highly as Stuxnet. Another former intelligence operative confirmed that the NSA had developed the prized technique of concealing spyware in hard drives, but said he did not know which spy efforts relied on it.

NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines declined to comment.

Kaspersky published the technical details of its research on Monday, which should help infected institutions detect the spying programs, some of which trace back as far as 2001.
 

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This isn't really a new revelation and shouldn't surprise people. It's not just TV's, it's smartphones, laptops etc anything connected to the internet which could also include cars and household utilities like fridges, washing machines, baby monitors etc. It's not paranoia and in light of the Snowden, Wikileaks etc info released over the last couple of years people would be downright stupid to believe this data is not being collated to potentially be used against you at some point in time.

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/secu...en-the-fbi-asks-you-to-backdoor-your-software

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2513592/Is-TV-spying-YOU.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...nd-uploaded-onto-russian-website-9871830.html
 
Whether through taxes or invoices, you and I will pay for it.

The most tragic thing about the data retention "debate" is that journalists are mainly asking
a) who will pay for it and
b) how journalists can get a pass on being spied upon.
 
Dry Rot said:
Gee, you post s**t. Absolute waste of bandwidth.
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Just received an Oscar for best documentary.



In esteemed company.




One long haired 80's hippy child from Melbourne sure has changed the world..
 

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Orwell and Huxley were obviously privy to some top level globalist plans. Or they were extremely good at observing the trend society is being steered down.
 
  • "There are 40,000,000 men under arms in the world today, and our statesmen and diplomats have the temerity to say that war is not in the making. Hell's bells! Are these 40,000,000 men being trained to be dancers?"
    • War is a racket (1935)
Major general Smedley Butler
 
CountryRace said:
  • "There are 40,000,000 men under arms in the world today, and our statesmen and diplomats have the temerity to say that war is not in the making. Hell's bells! Are these 40,000,000 men being trained to be dancers?"
    • War is a racket (1935)
Major general Smedley Butler
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Soldiers are like condoms. You don't have them because you need them, you have them in case you do.
 
Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the "war to end wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for democracy." No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United State patents. They were just told it was to be a "glorious adventure".

Thus, having stuffed patriotism down their throats, it was decided to make them help pay for the war, too. So, we gave them the large salary of $30 a month!

All that they had to do for this munificent sum was to leave their dear ones behind, give up their jobs, lie in swampy trenches, eat canned willy (when they could get it) and kill and kill and kill...and be killed”
― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar
 
Chief said:
I don't know that he is saying install police cameras inside your home. But I bet he'd be very happy with that.
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Correct on both counts.

But how juicy of a target would some "persons of interests" CCTV be for hackers - both state funded and non state funded.

It should be up to an individual to decide whether they want to go to that level of security within their home. It should not even be suggested by the state, or a member of that state that it's a good practice for everyone.
 
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