Before looking at IME, let's review other topics. Printer machine identification codes were secretly inserted into printers some time between the 1980s and 200

Before looking at IME, let's review other topics. Printer machine identification codes were secretly inserted into printers some time between the 1980s and 2004. Our communications are being monitored in a host of ways. One last refuge was our CPU, but now that is under foreign control as well. Then there's older US government operations like Minaret, Shamrock, Cointelpro etc. to surveil US domestic political activities, from black civil rights, to Vietnam doves, to a very extensive surveillance of feminist groups. Cointelpro also involved US intelligence disrupting political movements, writing poison pen letters (a database admin and 60s peacenik I knew had one sent to his boss, a lawsuit later revealed the FBI sent it). Nowadays this is PRISM, Xkeyscore etc. interacting with the telco monopolies and FAANG, to spy on Angela Merkel's phone calls (along with BND turned by the CIA), disrupt Airbus contracts in favor of US aerospace etc.