Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Did you Know?

  • In large cities, Americans are photographed on the average of 20 times a day.
  • Everything you charge is in a database that police, among others, can look at.
  • Supermarkets track what you purchase and sell the information to direct-mail marketing firms.
  • Your employer is allowed to read your E-Mail, and if you use your company's health insurance to purchase drugs, your employer has access to that information.
  • Government computers scan your E-Mail for subversive language.
  • Your cell phone calls can be intercepted, and your access numbers can be cribbed by eavesdroppers with police scanners.
  • You register your whereabouts every time you use an ATM, credit card, or use EZ PASS at a toll booth.
  • You are often being watched when you visit web sites. Servers know what you're looking at, what you download, and how long you stay on a page.
  • A political candidate found his career destroyed by a newspaper that published a list of all the videos he had ever rented.
  • Most "baby monitors" can be intercepted 100 feet outside the home.
  • Intelligence agencies now have "micro-bots" -- tiny, remote control, electronic "bugs" that literally can fly into your home and look around without your noticing.
  • Anyone with $100 can tap your phone.
  • a new technology called TEMPEST can intercept what you are typing on your keypad (from 100 feet away through a cement wall.)
  • the National Security Agency has a submarine that can intercept and decipher digital communications from the RF emissions of underwater phone cables.

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