obamacare has a lot of things in it that we don’t want. We’re just now finding out the feds can go into your home anytime they want. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a clause in there somewhere giving obama the right to confiscate firearms. And another clause giving the feds the right to watch you through yout TV.
Stossel said your cell phone and laptops can be turned into listening devices. Can be? They already are. A few weeks back my wife and I were talking about buying something that we’ve never bought before. The next time I went online a pop up ad came up for that item. No kidding.
Doctors are now required to ask if there is a gun in the house, this is going to be the reason they choose to raid.. I mean "inspect" your home.
Generally, such devices’ microphone function(s) can be defeated when desired (best is if an external plug [only] can be used to do so, as a mechanical “open” cannot be defeated no matter how much time / effort / money the NSA throws at it from a remote location. If they have a truck outside your house, you have a bigger problem!)
Perhaps some computers are different, but on my machines, either it is not possible to activate the internal mic when the mic jack has a plug in it, or, there is no internal mic in the 1st place.
Of course, if about 20 million people were devious and fed a stream of canned but “suspicious” audio with all the right “keywords” into U.S.’ communications network, at semi-random times, that’d overload NSA’s whole system. The problem is, we (or at least I) actually DO want them listening for real terrorists, so the question is how to limit the surveillance to only that. I have no real answer for that, as we have seen how easily any “legal safeguards” can be avoided or ignored.
One of you probably looked at one of those items online. From there (somehow) the information got to providers of that item, all of whom want to sell it to you.
By way of example; last Tuesday I looked for a very specialized switch on ebay, and at Radio Shack. Since that time, nearly every web page I bring up with advertisements on it that has that switch, and others similar to it.
Before that it was cowboy boots, before that it was other shoes, before that...............
Test it out yourself, go online shopping for a specific item, go to 5 or so stores looking for it. You'll see that item for weeks afterward on sites with advertising
there are great videos online about storage underground
using a sealed PVC pipe and a deep post hole
(makes it harder to find with a metal detector)
for anyone who still owns anything after that freakish series of tragic boating accidents last year
there are great videos online about storage underground
using a sealed PVC pipe and a deep post hole
(makes it harder to find with a metal detector)
for anyone who still owns anything after that freakish series of tragic boating accidents last year
And another clause giving the feds the right to watch you through yout TV.
Interesting that you say that. my kid just got a job with a regional cable company, and he told me that the DVR/HD boxes they install have the ability to do just as you describe. they only need to activate them.
when he learned this, he immediately began to look for a different job. it made him quite angry.