Don't get all paranoid...

I wonder if they can turn my laptop's camera on? I run a 2.6.32 kernel with no camera drivers (none for microphone, either). I can't even turn it on =)
 
They can turn on your phone too. How funny is it that we all carry bugs around in our pockets that the government can turn on at any time and listen to us.

Really though, most of us aren't that interesting.
 
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That's why there is tape over my ipad camera and phone cameras, front and back. Not that I'm paranoid or anything....

Same here. They are not the only ones that can do that. I clicked on the wrong link in an email and a page came up supposedly from the FBI, with a photo of me sitting at the computer and accusing me of viewing child porn, wanting $100 to fix it and clear my name. Still cost me $70 to get the computer cleared of the virus. That's when the tape went on.
 
They can turn on the camera in your phone, computer and even your x-box or games. They can turn your phone on while it is in your pocket and listen to your conversation. They have a chip in many of our new household items that can be activated through the Internet some through satellite. Most of the new cars have built in microphones and satellite connection that can be activated also without your knowledge.
If you ask uncle Sam, in some file storage they store enough data to tell you what is your favorite food, the amount of gas or how much electricity you consume. You are the tax payer. You are more important to know about and to control than the enemy. Enemies are coming and going but without your money they don't have a job, so knowing you is the number one priority.
 
paranoia
1.a serious mental illness that causes you to falsely believe that other people are trying to harm you

2 an unreasonable feeling that people are trying to harm you, do not like you, etc.

So if a private person get into my life through technology he is a criminal, but if the government breaks the law and spy on me, I am just paranoid. The government admitted more than a few times the last couple years that they break the law and spy on citizens.
Communist and fascist governments number one priority was to collect information on their citizens in order to control them. We are not in tyranny. We live in a fairly free society, but freedom is not free and there are nothing that are too big to change or to fall. Learn history.

I prefer to be paranoid than a "fool" or "sheep"
fool : One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.
sheep: People may be called "sheep" if they follow leaders without thinking.