Thomas Drake
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874 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6d ago
Thomas Drake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's just exploitation.
There's exploitation commercially.
There's exploitation for just because we can exploit.
And what the heck?
You actually have so certain non-state actors that do it for the fun of it.
Or they do it because they don't like somebody or they're stalking.
And so guess what?
And here's here's where it really starts to get really personal.
We've gone beyond just a TV screen that might be keeping track of what you're watching or how what commercial commercials you're looking at and then sending it back somewhere.
When you activate the microphone, now you've introduced a whole nother dimension because you're now inside what would you consider to be the most personal and private of spaces, and you're listening in on the conversations.
And I'm not talking just using the remote to say, because I I actually have a semi-smart TV, not quite as smart as the one that's this is all over the news now, in terms of, oh my gosh, all these LG, whoa, what's going on here?
Uh I can actually, you know, activate certain things in terms of programming simply by talking into the remote, but it's not the TV.
The my TV does not have a microphone.
And I'm not planning on ever having a TV, or if I do that has one, it's being removed.
It's trivial because anything that's networked, which some call smart.
Remember smart in some ways the euphemism for networked, uh, allows you to connect.
And because it's connect to and networked, that means anything else that's uh in the house that it's adjacent to or going, or go in this case, you know, you have a central node usually, or some people you even have several of them where you're going you're going through a a box.
Right.
You're actually going through a modem.
So it's actually the thing that the modem either in terms of, you know, the different technologies in terms of streaming and the connection to the outside world and internet.
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