Spying On your Spouse, Or Neighbor, Or Employees

     Welcome to the digital age! Don't you just love all of the modern technology that helps  you to communicate with friends and family? I know that I do!

   I spend many hours per day either fixing someone's computer or working on one of several blogs that I have. There are alot of emails to read and to send, phone calls to make on both the land line and the cell, and faxes to send and to receive.  The digital world makes this all possible without even leaving my desk.!

    But how much of all of this digital info is going to places that you would rather it not go to?

    What about the workplace? Are you aware that your boss may be tracking your every keystroke and email that you send and receive as well as every website that you visit and every IM that you have ever sent? The computer is not the only source where the boss, or your spouse for that matter, may be searching for evidence of wrong doing.

1) Digital Phones    I am talking about that nice service that you can get from your local cable provider.  The cable company that you subscribe to for your phone service has every call that you have made and all of the details of who you called, where,how long, and they can provide a transcribed text of those calls. This is much like Yahoo, MSN, Google,AT&T and others who provide Internet service. I'm sure that you remember the government wanting all of those records at one time last year.

    Do not believe that because your phone service is being routed through a cable company that it cannot be listened in on. I'm not talking about just the government. I'm talking about your spouse who thinks that you may be having an affair. Or, once again, your boss who thinks that you spend to much time on the phone.  For that matter, it may be someone who doesn't even know you but is just digging for info on you. you may be one of those who orders things by phone thereby providing a snoop with you credit card number and social security number.

    For the right price, you can purchase the software/hardware to spy to your little hearts content! This stuff is not as expensive as you may think.

    The solution for home phone users is to scramble your telephone conversations. There are many scramblers out there but don't be fooled by those cheap little $100 to $300 models that are just wasting your money and giving you little in the way of protection.

    Even the digital conversation through the cable company can be scrambled.

    I guess that it all comes down to what is your privacy worth to you?

     My next post on this subject will deal with the toys that your boss uses to spy on you and how you can get around most of them.

    Since this is a political site, first things first!

 

  

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