Posted on 01/27/2014 11:48:39 AM PST by chessplayer
For Americans concerned about their privacy, the NSA data grabs are daunting, but what about the data grabs happening inside your own home, perpetrated not by the government, but by your coffee machine?
Here are nine appliances and other systems inside your house that may be spying on you right now, or used to spy on you in the future.
1. Your Television
2. Your Cable Box
3. Your Dishwasher, Clothes Dryer, Toaster, Clock Radio and Remote Control
4. Your Lights
5. Your Heat and A/C
6. Security Alarms
7. Insulin Pumps and Pacemakers
8. Smartphones
9. Your Tablet and Computer
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
That doesn't mean, however, that it's instant heart attack at the hands of a hacker. There are safeguards. And it certainly is better than not having a heartbeat. I tried that and didn't like it very much.
Eight out of the nine are items which can only spy on you if you choose to allow them to spy on you.
Don’t want your TV spying on you? Don’t connect it to the internet?
Don’t want your coffee maker sending you advertisements? Don’t connect it to the internet?
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Not much YOU can do about your pacemaker I guess, although I suppose you could find a surgeon who has not yet been absorbed by the Borg and ask him/her to install the “basic” model.
He is a licensed electrical engineer with years of experience and he is not wrong. There is no button to press, just a lever to move and he examined the insides and pronounced them in perfect order and they would stay that way. All he did was blow out a bit of dust in there. If this man says it, one can believe it.
It has recently been revealed that ALL cats work for the NSA.
I think it was revealed on one of the documents Snowden released or something...
Some days if they accessed my computer camera they will see me at my computer in my underwear.....bhuaaaaa!!bhuaaaaa!!bhuaaaaa!!bhuaaaaa!!bhuaaaaa!!
The average age of appliances around here is about 30 yo and half of those don’t work. The tv and computer might be spying but they won’t be after I flash ‘em.
Wheeeee! Fixed that.
Nevertheless, metal springs can and do break - especially very old metal springs.
your vibrator. lol. had to go there.
also an ee. levers can break, toggle switches can break, inner springs can break, the connection/contact points behind your plastic turning dial could break. the probability they can break on an old unit, sure, are far less than a newer one that has a circuit board. Not impossible.
“Schumer: Your TV May Be Spying On You; Reveals Many New TV’s Have Built-in Cameras”
So THAT’S why I keep getting anonymous calls saying,
“It wouldn’t hurt you to run the vacuum a little more often”
It isn’t good to do laundry naked either. You could get your tit in a wringer.
the ads come from the history/cookies/cache stuff that you need to clear from your browser.
ROTFLMAO—clicked on link for original article and i got 3 pop up warnings that flash was trying to access my computer. Seriously it did!
OMG!
So that’s why my dishwasher pauses periodically...it’s so bored from spying on me that it falls asleep.
I wouldn’t fry bacon like that.
roflmto...neither would I...in fact, our thread comments were a joke from beginning to end...it just took a couple of FR comedians and it got funny fast. I guess once the humor started, it was good with all the stress of NSA spying on us nowadays.
I was just thinking that if Kathleen Sebelius was watching you fry bacon she might send in the Zot-Drone. Think tofu.
I don’t have a thing that has the ability to transmit anything!
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