Intelligence Chief: Spy using IoT

James Clapper the Director of National Intelligence told a Senate Panel Tuesday:

“In the future, intelligence services might use the [Internet of things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials,”

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of devices that communicate with each other and have networking capabilities like your smart phone controlling your smart appliances or new cars that are capable of WiFi access.


Samsung quickly made changes to its privacy policy when it told users their smart televisions will pick up audio and video and share that information. 

As you read this I’m sure for most of you there is no shock that a retired lieutenant general and director of the Defense Intellegince Agency such as James Clapper would say such things. 

Back in 2013 during the Edward Snowden revelations of Government Spying I wrote how the NSA collects Billions of Emails, Calls and other data on a daily basis. So yea, just like you there is no shock anymore on what Big Brother is capable of. 

All this data collection didn’t stop the horrible events in Paris nor did it stop the radicals in San Bernardino while we have the FBI Director James Comey begging for the end of encryption because they are to incompetent to crack the code. Is this a joke? We’ll keep our encryption, Thanks.  

This next decade will see the biggest advancement of technology ever witnessed by our species and we will literally be in the Age of Information where everything will be known. From self driving cars becoming a reality to cruise ships right now with robotic bartenders. Next year the first Robotic Kitchens will hit the market to cook for you. 

The United States has 260,000 robot factory workers. So while yuppies debate a minimum wage increase I wonder about the millions of jobs about be lost.

                                                                                                      -SODAGHAR 2/11/16

Spy Nation

 New documents released by Edward Snowden reveal our National Security Agency's vast spy network. The Washington Post Reports "The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable."
 
 Maybe it's unimaginable to some but in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 it was mandated that all telecommunications have backdoor capabilities for government use by 2002. Over the past couple of months it has leaked that the United States collects millions of emails and has admitted to spying on our own allies.

   The article goes on to say:

"One senior collection manager, speaking on the condition of anonymity but with permission from the NSA, said “we are getting vast volumes” of location data from around the world by tapping into the cables that connect mobile networks globally and that serve U.S. cellphones as well as foreign ones. Additionally, data are often collected from the tens of millions of Americans who travel abroad with their cellphones every year."

Question: How do you spy on billions of people?
Answer:  Get billions of people to do it for you.

 We've made it so easy to become tracked there is no footwork that needs to be done from the receiving end. They make the laws so products and companies are forced to allow access. Give the people phones they can hardly put down while risking car accidents just to use them. Along with social media (which is an app on the phone) the user puts their full name, address, phone number and uses check in features. How many of you have heard the stories of houses getting robbed because of a status update? If anyone with basic info can know your whereabouts imagine how easy it is for any government. Technology is a double edge sword; used to empower and inform or if we take it for granted; a means of enslavement.

                                                                                                                             - Sodaghar 12/5/13