09-03-2017, 08:31 AM
We know that governments are always in peril from the intelligence community and have been for a long time. The use of blackmail garnered from the Five Eyes technology along with willing servants in the media who are able to float a ruinous story as required, means accountability remains a very long way off. I suppose the first step is to neuter the mainstream media.
Meanwhile, on a personal level you take what steps you can. You can blind the camera on your laptop/computer and turn the internal microphone to zero - all recommended actions to hopefully defeat intrusions - and in my case I have an iPhone version3, a very old one that is less easy to manipulate and I don't plan to upgrade it at all. I remember that John McAfee uses an old flip top cell phone because it can't be hacked and recommends everyone uses similar technology. Maybe people should revert to that sort of thing, but they won't, will they. But all these are just temporary patches. The entire electrical circuit in your house can be used as a remote microphone.
Technology isn't going to go backwards, so it's going to take a real battle to put the spooks back in their box, and I don;t see anyone with the will to do that that. Sadly.
Meanwhile, on a personal level you take what steps you can. You can blind the camera on your laptop/computer and turn the internal microphone to zero - all recommended actions to hopefully defeat intrusions - and in my case I have an iPhone version3, a very old one that is less easy to manipulate and I don't plan to upgrade it at all. I remember that John McAfee uses an old flip top cell phone because it can't be hacked and recommends everyone uses similar technology. Maybe people should revert to that sort of thing, but they won't, will they. But all these are just temporary patches. The entire electrical circuit in your house can be used as a remote microphone.
Technology isn't going to go backwards, so it's going to take a real battle to put the spooks back in their box, and I don;t see anyone with the will to do that that. Sadly.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14