The Cia Wants To Spy On You Through Your Tv, dailymail.co.uk Rating Options

[rob balsamo]

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.

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.

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[Obwon]

Good find Rob, as usual you're on point and in line with what our nations Founding Fathers envisioned.

This will be a total disaster for America! There's so much room for misinterpretation of remarks it's incredible. That will cause serious mistakes to be made. Mistakes, greater and more serious than the threats the intelligence is supposed to prevent, by throwing a wet blanket over the art of freely communicating ideas.

Consider: You are able to resume a conversation, even after a year, with a person you know, without so much as missing a beat. How are total strangers supposed to be able to figure that out? How can they understand that you've been discussing a hypothetical, with someone you know and who knows you and who has this interest at heart?

Has anyone noted that everyone, pretty much refrains from joke telling anymore? We used to, as Americans, show a real irreverence for just about any subject you can name. No matter how touchy the subject might be there would emerge jokes, both tasteful and funny all the way to tasteless and/or extreme. Even tasteless jokes have a utility when one wants to provoke gag reflexes, which can be funny. But today we don't even bother because a "wet blanket" has already been thrown over free speech. If only by pc., to say the least.

The spy work of a nation has it's utility of course, but too much information, like too much
of anything, is no good. We will all be forced to choose our words very carefully, all the time, as if we were on stage, because that is exactly where we will be! In front of an audience of strangers we can't see or know, 24/7. The trouble is we're just humans, we cannot live like that! So then the question becomes: How long can we avoid the communications we need to engage, before things begin to go seriously wrong?

Either Congress and the courts come to their senses and shut down all of this excessive
watching, or the nation will come to a halt and that will shut it down for us all.