[Truth29]

"Before long, we won’t be able to take a piss in our homes without someone somewhere being able to find out about it. I’ve about had enough of this. Ironically, I work in IT - I guess it adds some perspective. As the years have gone by, I’ve become increasingly ‘unplugged’ in my personal life, because I KNOW the TERRIBLE potential this all has with a “free” society."

I bet that if someone takes steps to not be tracked, or use the net, or plugged in, that will be considered suspicious. If you become effectively a hole in the net, you will be investigated. In the new Amerika, no one will be allowed to be free of surveillance.

[KoRn]

Right.

I suppose the key is to ‘make some noise’. Generate moderate to large amounts of random data that would positively bore any live person to death, or be of no interest to any hardware/software that listens/captures data and triggers on specific criteria that will pull it(and everything else about you) out for further analysis.

[roadcat]

As the years have gone by, I’ve become increasingly ‘unplugged’ in my personal life, because I KNOW the TERRIBLE potential this all has with a “free” society."

Good for you! Same here. I retired from IT work. Long ago, some director and higher-ups wanted me to go after a couple of the workers to implicate them for wrong-doing. I was a network guru and part of my responsibilities was maintaining the email network. I was ordered to collect their email and deliver it to the higher-ups. I refused. On top of that, I showed them how easy it was to spoof emails by altering the source and destination information as well as the content, so there was no way to be absolutely sure that someone sent something from their desk. All part of my running network packet sniffers to troubleshoot the routers and servers, I saw everything going past my eyes.

Everyone going on the Internet is being looked at by someone!