{"id":4820,"date":"2013-06-06T17:08:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2013-06-06T17:08:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:08:46","slug":"well-spy-on-you-through-your-dishwasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4820","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll spy on you through your dishwasher"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches.<\/p>\n

Gen. Petraeus former CIA chief mused about the emergence of an \u201cInternet of Things\u201d \u2014 that is, wired devices \u2014 at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA\u2019s venture capital firm. \u201c\u2018Transformational\u2019 is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,\u201d Petraeus enthused, \u201cparticularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft.\u201d<\/p>\n

All those new online devices are a treasure trove of data if you\u2019re a \u201cperson of interest\u201d to the spy community. Once upon a time, spies had to place a bug in your chandelier to hear your conversation. With the rise of the \u201csmart home,\u201d you\u2019d 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\u2019s ambiance.<\/p>\n

\u201cItems 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 \u2014 all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing,\u201d Petraeus said, \u201cthe latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Petraeus allowed that these household spy devices \u201cchange our notions of secrecy\u201d and prompt a rethink of \u201cour notions of identity and secrecy.\u201d All of which is true \u2014 if convenient for a CIA director.<\/p>\n

The CIA has a lot of legal restrictions against spying on American citizens. But collecting ambient geolocation data from devices is a grayer area, especially after the 2008 carve-outs to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Hardware manufacturers, it turns out, store a trove of geolocation data; and some legislators have grown alarmed at how easy it is for the government to track you through your phone or PlayStation.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the only data exploit intriguing Petraeus. He\u2019s interested in creating new online identities for his undercover spies \u2014 and sweeping away the \u201cdigital footprints\u201d of agents who suddenly need to vanish.<\/p>\n

\u201cProud parents document the arrival and growth of their future CIA officer in all forms of social media that the world can access for decades to come,\u201d Petraeus observed. \u201cMoreover, we have to figure out how to create the digital footprint for new identities for some officers.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to argue with that. Online cache is not a spy\u2019s friend. But Petraeus has an inadvertent pal in Facebook.<\/p>\n

Why? With the arrival of Timeline, Facebook made it super-easy to backdate your online history. Barack Obama, for instance, hasn\u2019t been on Facebook since his birth in 1961. Creating new identities for CIA non-official cover operatives has arguably never been easier. Thank Zuck, spies. Thank Zuck. – Wired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. Gen. Petraeus former CIA chief mused about the emergence of an \u201cInternet of Things\u201d \u2014 that is, wired devices \u2014 at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA\u2019s venture capital firm. \u201c\u2018Transformational\u2019 … Continue reading “We\u2019ll spy on you through your dishwasher”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","category-world"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/shoephone.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}