We have potential bugging devices in all our houses - The telephone! Of course, when it is onhook, the microphone does not transmit... or does it? Would the phone have to be rewired to render it always "offhook" or would it be an operation at the central phone company? If the present models would have to be rewired, then how about future models? Much function is done thru chips & so could many of the models on the current market be remote programmable? See the latest issue of Mondo 2000.
From the innacuracies in what I do know about, I assume all of the
The Mondo article ("Total Surveillance" by Charles Ostman) was a joke. Among other things, he claims the Teledesic project is a massive satellite surveilance scheme. Those birds are going to be in geo-synchronous orbit! What's more, even a LEO spy-sat weighs many tons. Nobody could launch 840 satellites of that weight without being noticed. phone-paranoia is also unjustified.