Everything from remote controls to clock radios can now be controlled via apps - and chip company ARM recently unveiled low-powered, cheaper chips which will be used in everything from fridges and ovens to doorbells.
The resultant chorus of 'connected' gadgets will be able to be read like a book - and even remote-controlled, according to CIA CIA Director David Petraeus, according to a recent report by Wired's 'Danger Room' blog.
Petraeus says that web-connected gadgets will 'transform' the art of spying - allowing spies to monitor people automatically without planting bugs, breaking and entering or even donning a tuxedo to infiltrate a dinner party.
'Transformational' is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,' said Petraeus.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
In Soviet Amerika, TV watches -you-.
What have I been telling you people?
Next step: Make those tracking chips mandatory in *everything*.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who doesn't think that will happen is hopelessly naive, or a liberal. But I repeat myself.
You're right, Phantom. We really are not paranoid enough.
As with gun control, it's all a matter of getting up on your back legs and making a ruckus.
ReplyDeleteDriving a pre-EFI car, wrapping your wallet in tinfoil and ditching the cellphone couldn't hurt though.