Government Surveillance

Here is an interesting TED talk where privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet. He says, there have now been over the last few years an industry of companies who provide surveillance technology to governments, specifically technology that allows those governments to hack into the computers of surveillance targets. Rather than intercepting the communications as they go over the wire, instead they now hack into your computer, enable your webcam, enable your microphone, and steal documents from your computer.