CIA Chief: We Will Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher

[Nika2013]

I posted this in another forum, but it was an old thread...

Orwell's 1984 in action:

CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher - Wired Magazine
• By Spencer Ackerman
• 03.15.12
• 5:35 PM
•

More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them.
Earlier this month, Petraeus mused about the emergence of an “Internet of Things” — that is, wired devices — at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm. “‘Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,” Petraeus enthused, “particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft.”
All those new online devices are a treasure trove of data if you’re a “person of interest” to the spy community. Once upon a time, spies had to place a bug in your chandelier to hear your conversation. With the rise of the “smart home,” you’d be sending tagged, geolocated data that a spy agency can intercept in real time when you use the lighting app on your phone to adjust your living room’s ambiance.
“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 said, “the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.”
Petraeus allowed that these household spy devices “change our notions of secrecy” and prompt a rethink of “our notions of identity and secrecy.” All of which is true — if convenient for a CIA director.
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So...a person of interest may be any person with opposing views...I think I will move to the country and avoid technology, except when I am in town.

 

[Billo_Really]

That's fine with me, I only use paper plates anyway.

 

[OKTexas]

They're already rolling out spy technology in the form of Smart Meters where they can monitor your power usage by the second if they want and these meters are designed to communicate with many appliances being developed so the power company can turn your stuff off or reset your thermostat at will. Hopefully we in TX will get a fee free opt out of these remotely monitored surveillance devices this legislative session.

 

[Billo_Really]

They're already rolling out spy technology in the form of Smart Meters where they can monitor your power usage by the second if they want and these meters are designed to communicate with many appliances being developed so the power company can turn your stuff off or reset your thermostat at will. Hopefully we in TX will get a fee free opt out of these remotely monitored surveillance devices this legislative session.

Monitoring power consumption, doesn't have sinister alternatives.

The government collecting biometric data of all the citizens of this country through emails, phone calls and internet usage, is a far different story.

 

[Esmeralda]

Oh my goodness! It's a paranoia thread. There ought to be a forum here purely for for paranoia threads. It would be a busy, busy forum.

 

[Nika2013]

When the Director of the CIA TELLS you he intends to use your own appliances to spy on you..it's truth, not paranoia....Do you read?

Read the latest announcement from the administrator that states that anyone posting for the sole purpose of trolling a thread will be removed...You did not offer any information...

 

[Nika2013]

My question is: "Why should they be able to do any of these things?" We have privacy laws...