You are being snooped!

I do know someone who believes that she is being snooped.Ruth, though that is not her real name, is a former sales woman, mother of two, born in Jamaica and now a 75 year old pensioner who lives alone in south London. She believes that BBC news announcers broadcast coded messages about her, that the BBC keeps a constant watch on her through her television set and radio.

Because she also believed that British Telecom used her telephone as a microphone to listen to and record all noises/conversations in her flat, she had the phone line and telephone removed.

Ruth has complained to the BBC, to British Telecom, to her Member of Parliament and to anyone who will listen to her. Now she spends her pension on buying and installing top-of-the-line American made anti-surveillance equipment. Of course, I don't believe her. In fact I believe she is paranoid and needs psychiatric care. BUT, if she had owned and used a fax machine, a mobile cellphone, a computer with internet connection and/or even a land line phone or some form of wired or wireless transmitter/receiver, I would believe her!

What about me ... am I paranoid? Judge for yourself. You would accept that the FBIThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the principal investigative unit of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

The FBI sees its priorities as follows: (see FBI web site)
1. Protect the United States from terrorist attack. 2. Protect the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage. 3. Protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes. 4. Combat public corruption at all levels. 5. Protect civil rights. 6. Combat transnational and national criminal organizations and enterprises. 7. Combat major white-collar crime. 8. Combat significant violent crime. 9. Support federal, state, county, municipal, and international partners. 10. Upgrade technology to successfully perform the FBI's mission.

The bureau's jurisdiction covers a wide range of crimes, from kidnapping and drug trafficking to noncriminal investigations, such as background security checks.

Click link for information about the Carnivore program, the FBI's involvement in Internet snooping. and the CIAQuotations from the CIA web site:

"The CIA director's responsibilities include:

"Providing overall direction for and coordination of the collection of national intelligence outside the United States through human sources by elements of the Intelligence Community authorized to undertake such collection and, in coordination with other departments, agencies, or elements of the United States Government which are authorized to undertake such collection, ensuring that the most effective use is made of resources and that appropriate account is taken of the risks to the United States and those involved in such collection; and

"Performing such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the President or the Director of National Intelligence may direct."

click link to find out about CIA snooping on mobile cellphones. snoop but what about democratic governmentsECHELON is a highly secretive world-wide signals intelligence and analysis created in the Cold War early sixties to snoop on the Soviet bloc. Originally participants were limited to the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Since then other European countries such as Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany contribute interception stations.

ECHELON can capture radio and satellite communications, telephone calls, faxes and e-mails nearly anywhere in the world and includes computer automated analysis and sorting of intercepts. ECHELON is estimated to intercept up to 3 billion communications every day.

In May 2001, the European Parliament produced a report on ECHELON which, amongst other things, recommended that citizens of member states routinely use cryptography in their communications to protect their privacy.

More information at Answers.com or click link for BBC News report 3 November 1999 , even neutral ones like the Swiss Quoted from article in Answers.com

Onyx is the Swiss government intelligence gathering system launched in 2000, independent of ECHELON. The goal of the system is to monitor both civil and military communications, such as telephone, fax or Internet traffic, carried by satellite.

On 8 January 2006, the Swiss newspaper Sonntagsblick (Sunday edition of the Blick newspaper) published a secret report produced by the Swiss government using data intercepted by Onyx.

The report described a fax sent by the Egyptian department of Foreign Affairs to the Egyptian Embassy in London, and described the existence of secret detention facilities run by the CIA in Eastern Europe.

The Swiss government did not officially confirm the existence of the report, but started a judiciary procedure for leakage of secret documents against the newspaper on 9 January 2006.

Click link for full article.?

The Internet may be the greatest system for free expression ever put into the hands of mankind, but it also happens to have created the most efficient stealth spy networkEvery email you send or receive can be intercepted and read without the knowledge of the sender or true receiver. Every web page your visit is known to your ISP and the hosting server and logged by your ISP. There are laws in UK, USA etc that can force ISPs to show those logs by simple police request (no one needs a subpoena from a judge!)

In some countries (with UK leading the way) your email and your browsing habits must be recorded without your knowledge or permission,and kept for 6 years. No-one needs your permission for much of this.

New computers will be coming out with wired in 'policeware' which is designed to send details of software or music piracy to the police. But already a lot of software on your computer sends information 'home' Microsoft XP does this openly, but so too does Microsoft's Media Player!  ever known!

Worse things happen! For less than $100 you can buy a spy program to snoopIndividuals like you and I, or criminal gangs, can legally buy spy software that can be installed on your computer in, say,

Arendal Norway, from a my remote computer in, for example,

Brisbane Australia, without your permission or knowledge.

Once the spy software is installed I can secretly watch and record all your computer activities on my remote computer.

You would be totally unaware of all this and I can even un-install the spy software on your computer at any time and again, without your knowledge! on me and you don't need any expertise to do that!

What can this web site offerThese pages are going to show you
1. how your privacy is being invaded
2. how your identity is being stoled
3. how your goodwill is being used to defraud you
4. how your lack of knowledge is being used to part you from your money.

We will also offer tools, resources, organizations and methods that can help you browse the Internet safely and use better emailing habits.

Hopefully you will learn to spot frauds, hoaxes, scams, phishing, pharming and other potential hazards and deal with them before they do you harm.

One thing is certain:

Cosy complacency about the way you may have been using the Internet is not an option!  you? Information about Internet spying and the tools with which to protect both your own privacy and the privacy of your friends. How good is your knowledge, how sharp are your detection skills? Find out hereFrom the US Federal Trade Commission, an audia visual interactive quiz to show you how to hone your anti-spyware skills.

Click link to check your skills.