But it turns out you should be just as paranoid about your boss, your overly affectionate uncle and that stuttering blinky guy who lingers by your garbage cans on trash days. Because thanks to modern technology, the details of your life are openly accessible to pretty much anybody who wants them. Imagine it's Saturday night and you're doing your usual Saturday night thing, when your webcam secretly clicks on. And somewhere, somebody starts watching you while you wipe Dorito dusted fingers on your whitey tighties and bob your head to Nickelback.
They could be secretly uploading videos of you on to YouTube, taking notes for anthropological purposes or, if you're lucky, masturbating.
By now you've almost certainly heard about that high school in Pennsylvania that got in trouble for issuing its students laptops, and then spying on them in their bedrooms, remotely, by controlling their webcams. We're going to bet that, before that story broke, you didn't know there was even such a thing as turning on somebody else's webcam against their will from across town. And maybe you thought the school had done some weird modification to the laptops, and that it was just an isolated incident by a somewhat insane school district.
What the fuck is going on here? The truth is, it took basically no effort on their part. All sorts of programs are available to let you remotely commandeer a webcam, and many of them are free. Simple versions will just take photos or videos when they detect movement, but more complex software will send you an e-mail when the computer you've installed the program on is in use, so you can immediately login and control the webcam without the hassle of having to stare at an empty room until the person you're stalking shows up.
One of the creepier uses of this technology came back in , when a University of Florida student, who was known for helpfully fixing the computer problems of strangers, not so helpfully installed programs onto some of the computers he repaired so he could use the webcam to capture nude pictures of the girls who owned them. This is a sad example of what would be hilarious in a wacky college movie being disturbing in real life, and we also have to wonder how someone that proficient with computers was unaware you could find plenty of naked women on the Internet in roughly three seconds.
Let's say that like most Cracked readers during this recession, you're a custodian.
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And your boss gives you a cool cell phone with a clippy thing that you attach to your waist while you're working, which you assume is so he can phone you when there's some macaroni vomit you've got to take care of. What you wouldn't assume is that he's using that cool cell phone to track and log your every custodiony movement.
For some companies, it's not enough to know what sleazy shit you're totally into on the Internet. What they really want to know is what sleazy shit you're into at the workplace. For these guys, the logical next step in employee surveillance is using GPS technology to track your every move while you're on the job. Japanese company KDDI has developed technology for cell phones that uses something called accelerometers to track precise movements, then beams all that info back to a central location. And we're not throwing the word "precise" around willy-nilly here.
These guys can tell if whoever wearing the phone is sweeping versus scrubbing, walking versus running, doing number two in the bathroom versus doing number two in the secretary's filing cabinet. And anyone with access to your phone can secretly upload the software. A grudge-holding, time-traveling Alexander Graham Bell For those of you who think that this would never be used in America, it sort of already is, just in a simpler form. Called geofencing , it's used by businesses whose employees are constantly on the move, like FedEx drivers. A GPS enabled cell phone with some software installed on it lets bosses know where their drivers are at all times, and they'll get e-mail alerts if their employees are speeding, loitering or entering "prohibited areas," like a bar, or cockfighting arenas, or their home, or whatever they feel like labeling as prohibited.
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Those pizzas aren't going to deliver themselves. If you told us 20 years ago that there would be places where cell phones would be more ubiquitous than toilets , we would have shat our Girbauds and done a spit-take into your mirrored Oakleys. But here we are, in , with just about every schmo carting a cell phone around like it's no big thing.
You know what else is "no big thing"? Using that same ubiquitous device to to listen to your conversations, read your text messages and monitor your online browsing. Companies like Mobile Spy are on the cutting edge of the turning cell phones into secret, psycho nanny devices business. But with Fhotoroom being free, why not take the plunge and try the full app? You can find Fhotoroom here at the Windows Phone Marketplace. Spouse Emanuel Beckner , birthplace Pomona, date of birth: Spyera is the most powerful and undetectable Spy phone Software!
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You can receive a secret SMS alert. If you then call the target mobile, you will be added to the live call. Call interception is available on Spyera only. Competitors does not have this feature! Hear what's happening around the device. Make a hidden call to the target phone to listening the phones' surroundings, like a bugging device conversations in the room, etc. Real Time ambient listening is available on Spyera only. Spyera upload all photos taken from the the target device to your web account.
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VOIP is also key. Record phone conversation as hidden sound file. Choose phone numbers to be recorded automatically. Kindly be advised that we're the only company who assists with jailbreak. Once an iPhone is jailbroken Cydia icon will appear on the Springboard. But you can hide it after you install the app, so there will be no traces left. I confess that there was a certain side of me that felt excited, although if I was to spy on my imaginary lover there would surely soon be no traces of the relationship left.
Moreover, the legalities were still preying on my conscience.
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When I asked "But how can I do it without her knowing? Or maybe that was something for later in the discussion, when we got down to brass tacks. Still curious, I wandered over to the mSpy legal agreement. It reads, in part:. Failure to do so may result in a violation of federal or state laws, if you install this software onto a device you do not own or if you do not have proper consent to monitor the user of the device.
After these words of warning, in large blue type is, "We absolutely do not endorse the use of our software for illegal purposes.
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I've had lovers sneak into my emails and probe my phone. When I discovered them, their reply was always: You thought I wouldn't? Do I look stupid? So perhaps all this spying is, indeed, quite normal.