Post by barb43 on Sept 10, 2023 18:40:45 GMT
This first article is pretty straight-forward. The article was in a newsletter from "Interesting Engineering."
US govt. invests $22 million in smart surveillance clothing: The active smart textiles can record audio, video and geolocation data.
SMART ePANTS, which sounds like ‘smarty pants’ when spoken out loud, is a US government program seeking to develop active smart textiles (AST) with sensors, cameras, and wires woven directly into garments. The person wearing this technology, in the form of a shirt, pants, or underwear, can record audio video in their surroundings, and their location will be trackable via a geolocation sensor.
These ready-to-wear clothes will be stretchable, bendable, washable, and comfortable. They are being developed under the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) — the advanced research and development arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). ODNI oversees the US Intelligence Community (IC).
interestingengineering.com/science/us-govt-invests-22-million-in-smart-surveillance-clothing?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
This second article, on the same subject, was written by Andrew Napolitano, and it's heavily political. Laugh - or get mad - the choice is yours. I think I'll make sure I'm well stocked on clothes hopefully before this stuff hits the market. Don't want any of it!
Commentary
WARRANTLESS SEARCHES
Is the CIA in your underwear?
In a year, if a friend asks you if the CIA is in your underwear, you'd probably not take the question seriously. You'd be wrong. The CIA is spending millions in tax dollars to get into your underwear next year.
Eleven years ago, when this column asked if the CIA was in your kitchen, folks who read only the title of the column mocked it. Yet, then-CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus gave a talk to CIA analysts that he fully expected to be kept secret. In the talk he revealed that CIA vendors had discovered a means to log on to the computer chips in kitchen microwave ovens and dishwashers. From there, they could listen in real time to the conversations in a kitchen if those chatting were nearby the appliances.
Unfortunately for Petraeus, but fortunately for the Constitution, one of his analysts was so critical of the CIA's disdain for constitutional norms that the analyst recorded a major portion of Petraeus' talk and leaked it to the media. Is the CIA in your kitchen? Yes, not physically, but virtually.
(Much discussion follows as to 'why' several federal spy agencies think it's okay to spy on American citizens without their knowledge. It's a good read!)
I present this brief background so as to offer a flavor for the mindset of the feds who spy on us and to address the latest craze among senior level intelligence folks in the Biden administration.
Last week, the Director of National Intelligence – she is the nominal head of all 17 federal surveillance agencies – revealed to Congress that she had spent $22 million in order to develop cotton fibers that she called smart clothing. The fibers will enable the CIA and other federal spies to record audio, video and geolocation data from your shirt, pants, socks and even your underwear. She billed this as the largest single investment ever made to develop Smart ePants.
Smarty pants – how appropriate is that name for federal intrusion?
The CIA does not directly develop its ability to connect to your kitchen microwave and dishwasher or your socks and underwear. Rather, it hires outside groups to do so. In the case of smarty pants, 28 American tech firms and laboratories have helped to develop this monstrosity. Most are not household names, but some are – like the University of Virginia (which is owned by the state of Virginia), Penn State (which is owned by the state of Pennsylvania) and DuPont (which owns most of the state of Delaware).
You can't make this stuff up. The federal government's appetite for surveillance is quite literally insatiable. And its respect for the individual natural right to be left alone is nonexistent.
Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? What employee gets to spy on his bosses by putting trick textiles into the bosses' underwear and then gets away with it? When will Congress protect our liberties? When will enough of this warrantless spying be enough?/
www.wnd.com/2023/09/cia-underwear/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-newsletter&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=newsletter&ats_es=ea7eec24be1e0c0dcc42d05131592243&ats_ess=bea3e3743fb8b2856eba991a8ab7bf89870f991ba4b28284abb5d6ff16b7ffee
US govt. invests $22 million in smart surveillance clothing: The active smart textiles can record audio, video and geolocation data.
SMART ePANTS, which sounds like ‘smarty pants’ when spoken out loud, is a US government program seeking to develop active smart textiles (AST) with sensors, cameras, and wires woven directly into garments. The person wearing this technology, in the form of a shirt, pants, or underwear, can record audio video in their surroundings, and their location will be trackable via a geolocation sensor.
These ready-to-wear clothes will be stretchable, bendable, washable, and comfortable. They are being developed under the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) — the advanced research and development arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). ODNI oversees the US Intelligence Community (IC).
interestingengineering.com/science/us-govt-invests-22-million-in-smart-surveillance-clothing?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
This second article, on the same subject, was written by Andrew Napolitano, and it's heavily political. Laugh - or get mad - the choice is yours. I think I'll make sure I'm well stocked on clothes hopefully before this stuff hits the market. Don't want any of it!
Commentary
WARRANTLESS SEARCHES
Is the CIA in your underwear?
In a year, if a friend asks you if the CIA is in your underwear, you'd probably not take the question seriously. You'd be wrong. The CIA is spending millions in tax dollars to get into your underwear next year.
Eleven years ago, when this column asked if the CIA was in your kitchen, folks who read only the title of the column mocked it. Yet, then-CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus gave a talk to CIA analysts that he fully expected to be kept secret. In the talk he revealed that CIA vendors had discovered a means to log on to the computer chips in kitchen microwave ovens and dishwashers. From there, they could listen in real time to the conversations in a kitchen if those chatting were nearby the appliances.
Unfortunately for Petraeus, but fortunately for the Constitution, one of his analysts was so critical of the CIA's disdain for constitutional norms that the analyst recorded a major portion of Petraeus' talk and leaked it to the media. Is the CIA in your kitchen? Yes, not physically, but virtually.
(Much discussion follows as to 'why' several federal spy agencies think it's okay to spy on American citizens without their knowledge. It's a good read!)
I present this brief background so as to offer a flavor for the mindset of the feds who spy on us and to address the latest craze among senior level intelligence folks in the Biden administration.
Last week, the Director of National Intelligence – she is the nominal head of all 17 federal surveillance agencies – revealed to Congress that she had spent $22 million in order to develop cotton fibers that she called smart clothing. The fibers will enable the CIA and other federal spies to record audio, video and geolocation data from your shirt, pants, socks and even your underwear. She billed this as the largest single investment ever made to develop Smart ePants.
Smarty pants – how appropriate is that name for federal intrusion?
The CIA does not directly develop its ability to connect to your kitchen microwave and dishwasher or your socks and underwear. Rather, it hires outside groups to do so. In the case of smarty pants, 28 American tech firms and laboratories have helped to develop this monstrosity. Most are not household names, but some are – like the University of Virginia (which is owned by the state of Virginia), Penn State (which is owned by the state of Pennsylvania) and DuPont (which owns most of the state of Delaware).
You can't make this stuff up. The federal government's appetite for surveillance is quite literally insatiable. And its respect for the individual natural right to be left alone is nonexistent.
Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? What employee gets to spy on his bosses by putting trick textiles into the bosses' underwear and then gets away with it? When will Congress protect our liberties? When will enough of this warrantless spying be enough?/
www.wnd.com/2023/09/cia-underwear/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-newsletter&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=newsletter&ats_es=ea7eec24be1e0c0dcc42d05131592243&ats_ess=bea3e3743fb8b2856eba991a8ab7bf89870f991ba4b28284abb5d6ff16b7ffee
