Patraeus: CIA To Spy On You Through Household Appliances

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Remember all the hub-bub over the PATRIOT Act? The debate over whether or not, through that legislation, the federal government was overstepping its authorities continues to this day.  Yet, the Obama administration, a group of folks that was very critical of the national security moves made by the Bush administration, is doing much more than Bush ever dreamed.

Now, Director of the CIA David Patraeus, who was an integral part of the War in Iraq, and appointed last year to be CIA Chief by President Barack Obama, has let out that the CIA is watching you, and will be watching you through your television, and other household items.

With the onslaught of new technology, spying on you through "smart gadgets" has become an easier proposition by the government.  In fact, according to Petraeus, your tendency to buy the most advanced devices means that you are effectively bugging yourselves, and you are making it easy for spy agencies to peek into your lives.

Petraeus went on to say that new devices that link ‘dumb’ home appliances such as refrigerators, ovens and lighting systems to the Internet could “change our notion of secrecy.”

“‘Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies, particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft,” Petraeus noted.

“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 explained. “The latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.”

In the meantime, the biggest microchip company in the world, ARM, presented new processors that can be implanted into nearly any household appliance and connect it to the Internet so that the appliance could be remotely controlled in tandem with other applications. The company described the concept as the “Internet of things.”

The federal government saw this all coming.  The National Security Agency is presently building a gigantic supercomputer to process this gigantic amount of information at a Utah-based facility.  The capabilities of this supercomputer enables it to process yottabytes (a quadrillion gigabytes) of data, and it is said to be the centerpiece for the Global Information Grid and is set to go live in September 2013.

Talk about globalism gone wild.

Are we looking at a coming society more like one in George Orwell's 1984, or Philip Dick's Minority Report where people could be accused and jailed for crimes not committed yet?

We are already seeing arrests for innocent tweets, text messages, and posts seen as not in line with what the governments of the world find acceptable.

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