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Cameras in Digital TV Boxes! BEWARE WALMART!!!!

POSTED BY: PIRATENEWS
UPDATED: Friday, February 20, 2009 06:58
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:31 AM

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

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I could not believe my eyes.

I have a friend who is kind of a conspiracy theorist. He was trying to convince me that the many of the digital TV convert boxes that our coming out have microphones and cameras built into them. Knowing a bit about electronics I bought one of these devices opened it up fully intending on proving him wrong. To my surprise was right. This device has both a miniature camera lens and what looks like a microphone. I was so shocked I took pictures and video Please send this out to every one you know who is using one of these devices.

Hear are the details on the device I bought.
Its the MAGNAVOX TB110MW9 Digital to Analog Converter at Walmart.

Magnavox Digital-to-Analog TV Converter Box $49.87
www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8283870

What's REALLY scary is this guy is more intelligent than any talking head on TV "news":

STOP MASTERBATING! Unless a SWAT raid is your fetish.

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Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:51 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

Oh come on, this has GOT to be a hoax.

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Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:06 AM

HERO

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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Oh come on, this has GOT to be a hoax.

If you see something posted by PN...its wrong. He talks crazy, he makes up crazy stuff, he believes the crazy stuff other people make up.

This does not bode well for his credibility.

The truth is PN has the ONLY converter box with the camera and microphone. And they don't even work...the REAL cameras and microphones are...elsewhere.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

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Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:11 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Oh come on, this has GOT to be a hoax.

Maybe. Alex Jones is on the radio right now, reporting they bought that same unit today, and their engineers cannot find that camera and mike. But Jones did NOT say the parts in the video were NOT a videocam and mike.
www.infowars.com

But that's not proof that the same units in another location didn't have the video system as a beta test. Could be a psyop played on Jones in Austin TX, knowing he would go buy that particular unit.

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Comcast Cameras to Start Watching You?

If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.

The idea being that if you turn on your cable box, it recognizes you and pulls up shows already in your profile or makes recommendations. If parents are watching TV with their children, for example, parental controls could appear to block certain content from appearing on the screen. Kunkel also said this type of monitoring is the “holy grail” because it could help serve up specifically tailored ads. Yikes.

www.newteevee.com/2008/03/18/comcast-cameras-to-start-watching-you/

Most new computers have a videocam and mike built in. Digital TVs and DVD players are literally computers with 2-way digital communications via broadband cable, perfect for live video surveillance.

Cellphones can be used by police to listen to any person, even with the cellphone turned off, plus your position can be located from multiple cell towers.
www.themobiletracker.com/english/index.html

New vehicles use tracking and audio cellphone spy system via OnStar.

Apple patent puts HIDDEN videocam inside your LCD computer screen , cellphone touch screen and Ipod:

Apple files patent for camera hidden behind display
www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/08/apple_files_patent_for_camera_h
idden_behind_display.html

Homeland Security perverts install nekked videocams in airports
www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-02-17-detectors_N.htm

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Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:33 AM

FREMDFIRMA

I think *in this case* his friend was screwing with him...
HOWEVER.

As noted by the Comcast bit above, they can and will do this if they think they can get away with it, and Comcast is *notorious* for spying on it's customers - hell, there's even an app to catch them at it floating around.
http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/08/05/comcast/

And everytime they get caught, they trot out the "Oh we're so sorry, we'll never do it again" and go RIGHT BACK TO DOING IT.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Update_Comcast_Stops_Spying_on_Subscri
bers/1013585153
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/09/comcast/index.html

And let's not even get into their technicians installing TGCMD.EXE and TGSHELL.EXE, as part of their so-called "support" package which not only tracks everything you do and every web page you visit, but waits till some unholy hour of the morning and ships that information back to them, without your knowledge or approval.
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist_t.htm
http://searchtasks.answersthatwork.com/tasklist.php?File=Tgcmd

Believe me, I got enough dirt on Comcasts dirty deeds to make anyone pull their hair out - remember this is the ISP that ran a full page ad demanding the recall of the Farmington, MI mayor for not having them a monopoly, and when rebuffed, responded with very long "maintainence" outage during which it was proven no maintainence was actually done, in retaliation, while of course, still billing for it - and specifically including school educational channels.

There's a REASON Comcast offices in michigan are armor plated like bank offices in rough neighborhoods, and they don't limit this behavior to just michigan.
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/article/120656

In light of all that, and them blatantly admitting intent to do so - is it really beyond the pale to think that if they believe they can get away with it, since they're NEVER suffered any real penalty for it, that they will do such a thing ?

-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:54 AM

CITIZEN

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

And let's not even get into their technicians installing TGCMD.EXE and TGSHELL.EXE, as part of their so-called "support" package which not only tracks everything you do and every web page you visit, but waits till some unholy hour of the morning and ships that information back to them, without your knowledge or approval.

Huh. Why would they need to, if they're your ISP they can already get all that information from their own servers.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

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Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:58 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Didn't make no sense to me neither, Cit.

I did wind up digging it out of a lot of machines when I was working the PC biz tho, maybe it was a legal dodge around some letter-of-the-law type thing, but not like anyone much cared, they just wanted it picked out of their system.

-F

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Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:36 PM

CITIZEN

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I did wind up digging it out of a lot of machines when I was working the PC biz tho, maybe it was a legal dodge around some letter-of-the-law type thing, but not like anyone much cared, they just wanted it picked out of their system.

What gets me most along those lines are DRM. I mean Sony installing a root kit on any machine that so much as has a Sony CD put in it's drive? Root Kits are worms/trojans for crying out loud, surely that's illegal? If you're a pirate, hacker, script kiddie, it's illegal. But if you're a company, and you have a EULA "if you put this cd in your drive you are agreeing to let us rape your computer", it's suddenly ok? DRM on music forces you to become a pirate. Seriously, I bought and paid for an album on iTunes (a mistake I will not repeat) and had to transcribe them to mp3 in order to listen to them on non-apple software and hardware. Microsoft shutdown their MSN store media servers last year, meaning any MS DRM protected songs already bought, can no longer be enabled to play on new devices.

If I weren't throwing around names like Apple, Sony and Microsoft, it would be branded a confidence scam. You pays your money, and you get a product you aren't allowed to use. The only difference between that and the Rwanda State lottery you just won, that requires you to send them all you're bank details for the transfer, is how much money they're making.

Con-artists install viruses on PC's world wide. If it were an individual, they'd be locked up. Since it's a big corporation, it's allowed to pass.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

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Friday, February 20, 2009 12:34 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Our local TV "news" station has now installed a virus as condition for logging on to post comments. Antivirus goes ape.

Probably some kind of tracking/blocking/censoring program. Or worse - allows NSA to crash dissenters.

Comcast throttled my 30mb malware update to 1kb/sec today.

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Friday, February 20, 2009 6:58 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Cor Blimey, Guv - methinks he has the right of it!

Rare that it is, on THAT note, you and I are in absolute accord there, Cit.

Here, have a pint.

-F

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