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Two days, two major reveals, wouldn't be suprised if tomorrow I wake up to find out that they've been switching on the microphones and cameras on webcams and ce
by cdooh 13y ago
Two days, two major reveals, wouldn't be suprised if tomorrow I wake up to find out that they've been switching on the microphones and cameras on webcams and cellphones.
- yogo 13y agoNot to mention all of the revelations over the past few weeks. Either the administration is trying to top Nixon or there is some kind of conspiracy playing out.
- mtgx 13y agoAll of this deserves impeachment. Will Congress oblige? That's the real question. Normally, Republicans would be more than happy to do it - but for something like this? I'm more skeptical about that.
- jonknee 13y agoMany of the programs date to the Bush administration so it's probably not something that Republicans are too able to blow back on.
- o0-0o 13y agoI think their is a high placed mole. It might even be that Obama is the source of the leaks, and he's a good guy after all. Jury is still out on that one.
- jessaustin 13y agoIf so, it's great that so many Rs have condemned all this spying: they can't now turn around and impeach him for leaking about it.
- o0-0o 13y agoI doubt it's an R mole. If you think for a minute the GOP isn't in this as well, well...
- cdooh 13y agoI wonder how the Obama administration will repond to this other than the usual "Terrorism is bad and you need to trust us that we do all this for your own safety"
- yogo 13y agoNow everyone will be wishing these guys stayed busy banging interns or their mistresses because all these things are a lot worse.
- gyardley 13y agoDepends on the level of criticism, I suppose. I expect to hear the perennial favorite at some point: "It's all Bush's fault because he did it first!" If things get really bad, perhaps there'll also be a bit of "I was as shocked and angry as you were when I learned about these things for the first time from my morning paper," followed by a few rounds of "Quick, look over there, some right-wing guy said something stupid!"
- edwardunknown 13y agoI hate to be this guy but there are people lighting off bombs out there and as soon as a big one goes off people will demand they do a lot more than this. Would you rather have your Facebook scanned or see a car bomb go off in Times Square during rush hour? That's not hyperbole, that's the decision we have to make.
- rhp 13y agoNobody wants to see a car bomb go off in Times Square, but the problem with this line of reasoning is that it requires an unrealistic amount of trust that the government won't take this power to extremes. It's just human nature that power tends to corrupt, and absolute power will corrupt absolutely -- especially if left unchecked. In the case of these revelations, how can something be kept in check if its mere existence is kept secret by those who abuse it?
- edwardunknown 13y ago
- conover 13y ago"...switching on the microphones and cameras on webcams and cellphones." http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html They've been doing it with cell phone microphones for years apparently.
- brewdad 13y agoAha! Now we know the real reason that most phones sold today have a non-removeable battery.
- mcantelon 13y agoThe CIA has stated that it wants to do this. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/ Tech like the XBox One will make this pretty easy (as its microphone is always on and the Kinect cam is integrated).
- nemothekid 13y agoI've always wondered how a government agency would reliably set up cameras in everyone's home 1984 style. I find it hilarious that we may just go down to Best Buy and install in our own homes.
- slyn 13y agoThere was of course that one amusing Onion article about some US intelligence agency making its own social network so that everyone would just voluntarily give up all their information.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoPretty sure there was one that Facebook just came out as a government front too.