Thursday, November 13, 2008

Chapter 5 - Echelon

Teenagers often have a period where they think that all other people around them are observing, watching, listening them. But this period usually passes and after a while person will understand that it has all just been a crazy and not real fear. If this paranoid feeling continues it is considered as a disorder and needs to be treated.
But... actually if someone would love to follow me and see all the things I am doing it would be really easy with today's technology.
Where it will lead the world? If a husband suspects their wife on cheating then they can use small eavesdropping devices, minicameras etc. And what happens if the jealous husband works for some government organization and has access to all needed secrets to spy on his wife?
Echelon should not be used to personal purposes but to protect countries or world or get information about terrorism.
I often think that USA, who is leading all of this is like a paranoid teenager who thinks bad of everybody else and considers itself to be the center of the world. Usa does not want to understand that not everything that happens in the world is about them. Usa is like a big "bully" and as long as he continues to bully others and does not give respect to differences in the world, there will always be someone to rebell and fight against it.

Or is it normal to have such a surveillance system, that can track who I call, what I write, satellites read the newspaper on the street and all person can be tracked when they carry mobile phones.
At some point the only way to escape from others knowing information about you is run and hide somewhere with no signals, wires, machines or technical devices. Bit where would that be?