OTHERS CAN SEE & HEAR YOU IN YOUR HOMES
About twenty years ago I had two separate experiences which illustrate the problem mentioned in the article below. We had intercoms set up in our home and they were always turned on. One day I walked into the bedroom and I heard a baby crying. We had no babies in our house at that time. After some lengthy crying, I heard a woman's voice scream....."Shut the ......... UP! I immediately turned off the intercom and that was the end of using that device. Who knows who could have heard our past conversations.
Another incident entailed an unmarried eccentric person who lived next door. We had a couple of cordless phones at that time.One day I got a strange letter in the mail. It was a very bizarre letter but it talked about things I had said and that my son has said on the phone over a period of time. It turns out that this neighbor had been listening to our cordless phone converstaions on her scanner.I brought the letter to the police who determined the neighbor had moved...thank goodness.Our modern technology is helping us in some ways but destroying us in other ways.
Now we have videos that can be transmitted all over..... I don't trust computer screens, new televison screens....skype...etc. Technology can be fun but it is entrapping us. When I say this to others and suggest that we not buy into it all...then they say...its inevitable...we have no choice. Maybe we are brainwashed to think we have no choice? Does this notion prevent us from all banning together and refusing to buy into it all?
WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY: Monitors Transmit Video of Unknowing Families
SEATTLE -- The saying goes, "never wake a sleeping baby." But what if that baby is broadcast for all the neighbors to see?
From Ballard to Queen Anne and Greenlake to Phinney Ridge, KOMO News found unsuspecting families transmitting what's inside their homes without even knowing it.
And they're broadcasting through video baby monitors -- devices designed to give parents peace of mind. But a Problem Solvers investigation found these security devices can be anything but secure.
Monitors can be as cheap as $99. We purchased a model that retails for about $140, and transmits in the 900MHZ band. This frequency is left open by the Federal Communications Commission for all sorts of household uses, including radios, telephones and video cameras.
"It's interesting," said Seattle-based security consultant Eric Rachner. "Baby monitors, for the most part, don't really have security. Technologically, they're just little television stations. There's nothing to prevent you from being able to tune these devices to the channels they're transmitting on "
Rachner, who works for a South Lake Union security firm, is hired by companies to dig out holes in their software and respond when someone breaks into their computer systems. He says intercepting the signal on a baby monitor is simpler than you think.
"How easy is it to intercept? As easy as it is to just go and purchase the receiver for one of these baby monitors," he said. "I would say, it's not just easy; it's trivial."
The Problem Solvers decided to put it to the test. We connected our monitor, which acts as a receiver, in our car, and then drove around the city. Within moments, we started seeing nurseries, bedrooms, and hearing people's conversations. One baby's image we picked up from almost half a mile away.
READ MORE http://www.komonews.com/news/problemsolvers/115840594.html
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=196103
