HEAD OF CIA PROUDLY ANNOUNCES YOUR TOASTER AND REFRIGERATOR WILL SPY ON YOU
“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation Internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing,” Petraeus said, “the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.”- Gen.David Petraeus

WIRED MAGAZINE - CIA director David Petraeus has said that the rise of new “smart” gadgets coupled with "apps" means that Americans are effectively bugging their own homes. General David Petraeus former Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq and now head of the CIA made the comments when discussing new technologies which aim to add processors and web connections to previously   ‘dumb’ home appliances such as fridges, ovens and lighting systems. "Transformational" is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,” Petraeus enthused, “particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft.” "With the rise of the "smart home", you’d be sending tagged, geolocated data that a spy agency can intercept in real time when you use the lighting app on your phone to adjust your living room’s ambiance". That’s not the only data exploit intriguing Petraeus. He’s interested in creating new online identities for his undercover spies — and sweeping away the “digital footprints” of agents who suddenly need to vanish.
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