It's a fact that that your mobiles microphone can be accessed if you have the skill and technology to do so. There is no need to plant a 'bug' in a room these days. I know and accept that. It isn't paranoia. The security services won't be interested in my boring conversations though!
It's a fact that that your mobiles microphone can be accessed if you have the skill and technology to do so. There is no need to plant a 'bug' in a room these days. I know and accept that. It isn't paranoia. The security services won't be interested in my boring conversations though!
But we are being monitored by "others" at so many levels. It's not just government, or security forces, or local authorities.
My neighbour reminded me, indirectly, because she was speaking to her 4 year old at the time, that she can see what he's doing without having to be there, because the cameras on the house (perched at roof level and over the kitchen) send pictures to her mobile phone.
The fact that they also look down on our garden, is disconcerting. A terraced house, with 4 cameras at the front and at least 2 at the back, seems overkill.
I assume that if government can hack into our phones, then they also can gain access to all these cameras!!
There has never been any such thing as real privacy … unless you live alone on an island … and maybe not even then.
Back in the 80s our village postmistress told a newly arrived teacher in the village that she hoped his wife was feeling better now … the previous evening he’d phoned his wife (still in s wales and suffering from flu) from the village phone box … just below Mrs S’s bedroom window … 😂
Mrs S knew everything that went on. How else could she ensure that all the old and sick folk had coal and food when the village was cut off by snow drifts … as it often was back then.
Things haven’t changed .., just the means of doing stuff.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
But on the other hand, why would you chose to have a listening device installed in your home? Not used by the government but accessible to anyone who wants to sell you stuff? "Alexa, send me more more adverts for junk I don't need or want"
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
My OH bought an Alexa thing some years ago. I made him put it in his man-cave where it can listen to him playing online computer games and tinkering with his guitars. I don't think he uses it for anything except playing music from Spotify or some such thing.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I won't have an Alexa. If I want or need to know something, I avoid being lazy, and look it up, work it out, or do whatever needs doing. Of course, there are times when I AM lazy, and ask my wife - which I guess is much like having Alexa!
Some people would say that's the same thing. But a wife is better, in so many ways. I'm not sure Alexa can cook dinner yet, but I'm sure its inventors are working on an upgrade!!
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My neighbour reminded me, indirectly, because she was speaking to her 4 year old at the time, that she can see what he's doing without having to be there, because the cameras on the house (perched at roof level and over the kitchen) send pictures to her mobile phone.
The fact that they also look down on our garden, is disconcerting. A terraced house, with 4 cameras at the front and at least 2 at the back, seems overkill.
I assume that if government can hack into our phones, then they also can gain access to all these cameras!!
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Mrs S knew everything that went on. How else could she ensure that all the old and sick folk had coal and food when the village was cut off by snow drifts … as it often was back then.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Some people would say that's the same thing. But a wife is better, in so many ways. I'm not sure Alexa can cook dinner yet, but I'm sure its inventors are working on an upgrade!!