Tag: Surveillance
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2022 Week 45 – Lights Out
70-degrees in November? I’ll take it! We had some BIG wind gusts that came through Indiana yesterday, and about half the houses in my neighborhood ended up without power for a little over 5-hours. Luckily I work off laptops and iPads, so I had enough power to get through most of the day using my…
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2021 Week 48 – You ARE Being Watched
I took some time over the long holiday weekend to finish a book I had started a few weeks ago and promptly start another related one. Permanent Record by Edward Snowden is an eye-opening tale centering around a late 20-something NSA contractor who exposes the US Government’s mass surveillance system created after 9/11. Love him…
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First it Was Cell Phones, Now This?
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement [Link to NY Times article] Cell phones are tracked, Internet usage is tracked, Cars are tracked, now we find out Snail Mail is tracked… These must be some unbelievably big databases and data centers to store this kind of information. Guess it’s time for me…