The NSA toolbox catalogue

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Catfish

When there are drones and cameras everywhere (like in London now) with face recognition software and RFID chips in your underpants, you can cut your cables and connections as you want, and it will mean exactly nothing. The whole system and thinking behind it is foul.

Exactly. So there are two choices you can make in life, you can live your life in fear and panic about being watched all the time, or you can accept it as something in life that you have no control over and you are unable to change and move on.

[Dread Knot]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Exactly. So there are two choices you can make in life, you can live your life in fear and panic about being watched all the time, or you can accept it as something in life that you have no control over and you are unable to change and move on.

As children we had to deal with that notion for years. It was drummed into our heads every December that a jolly old elf was doing surveillance on us from an Arctic outpost...

He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake. He knows when you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake.

I grew up assuming I was being watched. Of course knowing that the government is doing it is a little unnerving because they can haul you off to Gitmo, instead of sticking you with a lump of coal.

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Catfish

When there are drones and cameras everywhere (like in London now) with face recognition software and RFID chips in your underpants, you can cut your cables and connections as you want, and it will mean exactly nothing. The whole system and thinking behind it is foul.

Have some fun. You could wear a disguise, fake beard, dress like a woman..etc. Take a different route every day. Live like a secret agent.

The whole system and thinking behind it is foul.

That is true.

Originally Posted by Oberon

Exactly. So there are two choices you can make in life, you can live your life in fear and panic about being watched all the time, or you can accept it as something in life that you have no control over and you are unable to change and move on.

Right. I choose the latter. What could possibly make people think that they are under suspicion? Suspicious activity? No one likes being watched but every place of business has had surveillance for quite some time. As far as being falsely suspected or accused of something, that happened long before the present technology existed. Sometimes you're the windshield....
Sometimes you're the bug.