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October 04, 2006
Is Privacy Possible in America Today ?
Businessweek's on-line edition takes a look at the latest in espionage gadgets and technology in response to the recent Hewlett-Packard boardroom scandal. The article looks at devices designed for counter-espionage, which range from mundane confidential email services to sophisticated camera and listening-device detectors.
"[And](...)for every method of spying," says BW, "there's a counteroffensive. One of them is the eavesdropping protection kit, manufactured by Dynasound in Norcross, Ga. To secure a room in an office building, devices are placed on ceiling plenums, floors, HVAC ducts, doors, walls or windows — basically anywhere voices can travel."
This concept looks pretty good to me: vanishing e-mail. Called VaporStream, the system lets people send e-mails that cannot be tracked, copied, forwarded, or printed—leaving no trail. Users pay $39.99 a year to subscribe to the service and must log into the site every time they want to send a confidential e-mail.
It seems to me that you can make your life more private (than it is now anyhow), but not completely so. I am sure that there are plenty of exotic snooping technologies on the market that the public is unaware of and that's not even to mention the custom-made stuff that the geek-for-hire snoops can devise for you if you pay them well...
Posted by Ali Massoud at October 4, 2006 11:44 AM
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