Another modified GSM handset called PICASSO collects user data, location information and room audio, all for the bargain price of $2,000."
It isn't just data mining....
"The backdoors and other spy tools listed in the NSA catalog appear to be only after-market implants rather than backdoors installed with the manufacturer’s cooperation.
Some of the tools can be installed remotely via the internet, others require an “interdiction” — the NSA’s term for the physical intrusion of a device or system to implant a bugging device on it. In this case, the NSA relies on the CIA or FBI to gain physical access to a system or intercept product shipments from manufacturers and retailers so the spies can subvert equipment before it’s delivered to the customer."
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In clear violation of The Third Amendment of the US Constitution which states:
"The Third Amendment (Amendment III) to the United States Constitution places restrictions on the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent, forbidding the practice in peacetime. The amendment is a response to Quartering Acts passed by the British parliament during the American Revolutionary War, which had allowed the British Army to lodge soldiers in private residences."
Get out of our privates.
"Other tools place a backdoor in routers made by Cisco, or infect the BIOS of a computer to maintain a persistent foothold even if the hard drive is wiped clean and the operating system reinstalled."
AND we are being vandalized, with hardware altered, destroyed, bogged down with SPIES.
Where is a decent lawyer when the World needs one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iww
Workers Unite. It is the only way to peacefully fight back.