Open Your Doors

            I think that the iPhones and smart phones are getting a little bit too smart for us, or at least want to help us more in a bad way. I am going to assume that everyone who has a computer and the spare time to read this blog also has a smart phone and knows what I am talking about. The Open Feint application wants to know where you are and if a game is playing, it will often ask to use the location, usually for no good reason except to just compare your high score to others in your area. Or for those pop-up advertisements that exclaim how there are hot singles living in your area, and since I live in the middle of nowhere that is Iowa, I must be the hot single in the area. More often than not when you post to some sort of social networking site, it will post where you are currently at.

            This also means that your phone has a Global Positioning Device or GPS inside your phone, and while you think you have complete control over it, you really do not. No business in their right sort of mind would put a monopoly on a function that the business still owned. While you think that you can turn it off, and I know this kind of sounds like a conspiracy theory, it can probably be turned on with ease if you have ever piqued the interest of any government official or bureau. It would take no work, and just for a kill safe switch, I think that the device could be activated even if the phone was dead. That one person, I cannot exactly recall his name right now who released information about the NSA and security breaches, showed that the government is going to pretty high lengths to spy on every day monotonous activities, if you searched something really weird into google, like how to breach a military base, I can definitely say that they will trace you down, unless you are a really professional hacker that does not make mistakes, like in all those books that I have read.

            Although we live in the “Land of the Free” sometimes it just does not feel that way, with more and more government conspiracies popping up and some of them becoming more and more plausible. All that would appease me is if any of the government officials would just come out with all the secrets and give an apology to the American people. I would forgive them and accept it, because people do make mistakes, but it is what you do in the future that helps change them.