zelda1899 wrote...
I believe this to be a fraud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUi3sA1gdfI
Although his technical expertise is sketchy, the video is enough for me.
Also, think about it logically. Imagine how much strain the millions of camera's would have on bandwidth, for the cable provider, the feds, even on the cable box itself. The lowest bandwidth video streams take at least 100kbps upload, and that's pushing it with sound. As an approximate number, 50 million feeds running into a single office, maybe 1000 feeds running into a local office, all being recorded, serialized, and stored? I'd be easier to just get a search warrant and pick up HDD's and DNA. It'd also be an extremely large operation, checking cable consistency, supplying local PD's, setting up receiving sytems, paying off cable companies. It's billions of dollars, easy. Also, this guy does point out that these boxes are converting receivers, not transceivers. Although I can't tell just by looking a the circuit board whether or not it transmits a signal, the likeliness of it is slim. The technology involved in transceiving signals and micro-cameras is not a $60 hack job, possibly less then 300, but not 60. As much as I'd love to believe that the government was spying on me to explain my paranoia, this method seems too broken. They'd perfect the satellites first.
I never really believed that the government actually spies on us using that, I was just posting the vid for the fun of it.