Hidden Spy Camera & Mic Found Inside DigitalTV Box

[always_rebel]

Hidden Spy Camera & Mic Found Inside Digital TV Box

Hidden Spy Camera & Mic Found Inside Digital TV Box
Reason for forced digital switchover in US and UK: Government and industry watching us to build profiles, launch invasive advertising

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
A popular video circulating on You Tube shows the discovery of a spy camera and a microphone hidden inside a digital TV converter box. Such devices are part of a government and industry surveillance program that is undoubtedly connected to the forced digital TV switchover being rolled out in the UK and US.
“I could not believe my eyes,” states the blurb accompanying the video clip, “I have a friend who is kind of a conspiracy theorist. He was trying to convince me that many of the digital TV convert boxes that are 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 he 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 everyone you know who is using one of these devices.”
The camera and microphone were hidden inside a MAGNAVOX TB110MW9 Digital to Analog Converter box. We are not suggesting that every digital cable box has a spy camera and microphone inside, so ripping open your cable box is not a good way to prove this one way or another - but the fact remains that companies like Google and Comcast have openly announced that they plan to use hidden cameras and microphones inside their products to spy on consumers.

Watch the clip below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ4iIM8Eljc

The need to mandate a mass roll out of such hidden surveillance devices is undoubtedly one of the reasons that governments in both the UK and the US, as well as eventually the entire planet, are overseeing a forced switchover to digital TV and killing traditional analogue broadcasts. The vast majority of TV’s require a digital decoder box to receive digital TV transmissions.

By installing covert spy devices and hidden microphones inside our all but mandatory digital boxes, the government and whatever corporate entities get a slice of the pie, have direct access to our living rooms. This is the ultimate Big Brother scenario whereby the majority of Americans and Europeans will have Orwellian telescreens watching their every move.
Many will dismiss such claims as conspiracy fodder, but the fact is that Americans have been spied on for decades, previously under the Echelon program and more recently as part of the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.

As former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice recently revealed, “The National Security Agency had access to all Americans’ communications — faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications,” Tice claimed. “It didn’t matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications.”

As we highlighted three years ago, private industry and eventually government is planning to use microphones in the computers of an estimated 150 million-plus Internet active Americans, as well as similar devices installed inside digital TV boxes, to spy on their lifestyle choices and build psychological profiles which will be used for surveillance and minority report style invasive advertising and data mining.

Digital cable TV boxes, such as Scientific Atlanta, have had secret in-built microphones inside them since their inception in the late 1990’s and these originally dormant devices were planned to be activated when the invasive advertising revolution was being rolled out, a watershed that is quickly becoming a reality.

The advent of digital video recording devices such as TiVo (Sky Plus in the UK) introduced the creation of psychological algorithm profiles - databases on what programs you watched, how long you watched them for, and which adverts you liked or didn’t like. This information was retained by TiVo and sold to the highest bidders - an example being Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction during the 2003 Super Bowl half-time show; TiVo were able to compile lists of how many people had rewound the clip and how many times they had replayed it.

In 2006, Google announced that they would use in-built computer microphones to listen in on user’s background noise, be it television, music or radio - and then direct advertising at them based on their preferences.
In March last year, Comcast announced that they were “experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.”
The cameras would use body-form recognition to confirm who was in the room and then tailor program recommendations, as well as commercials, to target that member of the family.
The video below covers the issue of secret cameras installed inside digital TV boxes and their relation to the forced digital switchover. A further video explores other motives behind the digital switchover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TiKjjyQqbA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uEfRaUhpv0


http://www.prisonplanet.com/hidden-spy-camera-mic-found-inside-digital-tv-box.html

[millhouse]

Good post!!

[ekxodus]

I have the same model, so I wanted to confirm this, I opened mine up and that wasn't in it. So I guess they're not in all of em, I got mine at walmart, with one of those coupon things.

[steevo]

I have the same model, so I wanted to confirm this, I opened mine up and that wasn't in it. So I guess they're not in all of em, I got mine at walmart, with one of those coupon things.

What coupon things ?

[phildee3]

I have the same model, so I wanted to confirm this, I opened mine up and that wasn't in it. So I guess they're not in all of em, I got mine at walmart,



Has anyone considered that the vid might be a hoax -
duah?

[steevo]

Has anyone considered that the vid might be a hoax -
duah?

Yes I have considered that. Let's face it, we dont know if it's a hoax or not.

But just cos a hoax video is brought out it doesnt mean that we should dismiss that the PTB would definitely consider doing this once they have got us conditioned to accept it. I appreciate that we are only discussing this because OF THE VIDEO, but to be honest i have been considering opening up my digibox to check it for ages now, and this video finally persuaded me to check it out (as mentioned in this thread (http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54481) on the same subject).

[phildee3]

...we are only discussing this because OF THE VIDEO,



You might be, but there are many of us who have been discussing this for years as a result of Orwell's 1984.

There's the possibility that light bulbs can be used as microphones and that tptb can tap into your electrical wiring to spy on you.

Then there's the rapid advance of spy satellite technology that can now see through your roof and walls and follow you around your house!
Why would they bother with cameras in digi-boxes, ffs?

[ekxodus]

What coupon things ?


Here in amerika they give people vouchers to buy converter boxes.


And yes I figured this was a load of BS, which is why I opened mine up.

[steevo]

Why would they bother with cameras in digi-boxes, ffs?

Just cos YOU disbelieve it, it doesnt make it untrue.

[coco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwMaX3vuWls


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhqtMh_TUSQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlTd7snQCjk

[steevo]

Just because a hoax video is made and admitted to, it doesnt really mean ANYTHING except that the video itself is a hoax and that they admitted it was a hoax. Nothing else is proved either way.

[coco]

No argument or insult intended. Just presenting the other side of the debate only.

[phildee3]

Just cos YOU disbelieve it, it doesnt make it untrue.



Did I say I disbelieve it?

No!!

I wouldn't be surprised if some idiots put them in some units for some stupid reason.

I just questioned why they would do it when there are much better ways of spying on us.

[goldman]

Here in amerika they give people vouchers to buy converter boxes.


And yes I figured this was a load of BS, which is why I opened mine up.

They spend millions on coupons, why? because they want the PROPAGANDA machine to stay ON. If every American stops watching TV and everything goes on static, they would wake up faster, so they need to spend those millions on coupons in order to keep the sheep asleep.

[phildee3]

They spend millions on coupons, why? because they want the PROPAGANDA machine to stay ON. If every American stops watching TV and everything goes on static, they would wake up faster, so they need to spend those millions on coupons in order to keep the sheep asleep.



Doesn't analog do that?

[marpat]

Although such things are not impossible you have to ask how likely is it. There is no way that everybody who has such a box would be monitored so I would have to say that if a person was being bugged then there must be a good reason for it. Why monitor people watching the telly? it would be like watching the Roal Family series millions of times over.

[deca]

marpat reassuring as ever :rolleyes:

I can bang one out watching the porn channel knowing that I want be watched filmed and used as some sick humiliation ,degrading,public shamming & guilt based mind control program:rolleyes:

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/iraq-abu-ghraib.jpg

What if some young teenager was caught and told he had to clean his act up and join the police or military ect..
or involved in phone sex (whos able to access your phone records!!!) cyber sex (credit card details) ect...
Also maybe into playing violent FPS (first person shooters) etc....

[lightworks]

just chuck away the crap technology...open your eyes ..go for a walk in nature...I dont watch telly.....

[marpat]

marpat reassuring as ever :rolleyes:

I can bang one out watching the porn channel knowing that I want be watched filmed and used as some sick humiliation ,degrading,public shamming & guilt based mind control program:rolleyes:

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/iraq-abu-ghraib.jpg

What if some young teenager was caught and told he had to clean his act up and join the police or military ect..
or involved in phone sex (whos able to access your phone records!!!) cyber sex (credit card details) ect...
Also maybe into playing violent FPS (first person shooters) etc....

I just dont live in the same prison of fear as you I guess

You really spout some rubbish

[deca]

naked chief , how to look good naked :rolleyes:

I had induced headaches all day , kept up all night .

theres people that care dude ok and know whats going on


breakdown,rebuild,breakdown,rebuild ect..............

or some media/based "behavior change" campaign

all you have to look at the guilt/blame they use in global warming and stop smoking ads Etc..



some of you don`t have a scooby doo, some do and what to ridicule my claims

[deca]

video on link
http://www.wariscrime.com/2009/01/30/video/more-evidence-hd-tv-is-a-set-up-for-mind-control/

To begin with, take 10 minutes and watch this 60 Minutes video:




Leslie Stahl makes some very interesting comments on the morality and ethics of mind-control.

Here are mine:

1. The technology
called FMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance) is old and archaic actually. Mengele and others were “reading” brain waves via magnetic resonance graphing in the early 70’s. Boston-Logan Airport is already using new light-wave beams to scan and read air traveler’s intentions before they board the planes.

2. The German individual Stahl interviewed was very hesitant to reveal exactly who had the mind-reading technology today. Again, just look at the U.S. Patents issued in the last decade to realize the height and breadth of the mind-control explosion — and keep in mind that patents are usually applied for after the technology has been proven to be commercially viable via working models.

3. The FMRI “computer” that “reads the mind” is just one side of the coin. It is much, much easier to produce emotions and impulses into the brain than to actually read the brain via computer programs.

4. This technology needs much more bandwidth space than is currently provided by analog signals in order to be implemented. Thus, the need to switch to digital signals exclusively.

5. This technology, in the wrong hands, is a bigger threat to individual freedom than any standing army.

6. Is Homeland Security the “wrong hands”? Why is this just now beginning to be reported by such news programs as “60 Minutes”?

Read this patent abstract, and then read my exposé on digital TV once again in the context of Stahl’s report.

USP # 6,488,617 (December 3, 2002)

Title: Nervous System Manipulation by EM Fields from Monitors.

Issued to: Loos, Hendricus.

Abstract: Physiological effects have been observed in a human subject in response to stimulation of the skin with weak electromagnetic fields that are pulsed with certain frequencies near 1/2 Hz or 2.4 Hz, such as to excite a sensory resonance.

Many computer monitors and HD TV screens, when displaying pulsed images, emit pulsed electromagnetic fields of sufficient amplitudes to cause such excitation. It is therefore possible to manipulate the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a nearby computer monitor or DIGITAL TV set. For the latter, the image pulsing may be embedded in the program material, or it may be overlaid by modulating a video stream, either as an RF signal or as a video signal.

The image displayed on a computer monitor may be pulsed effectively by a simple computer program.

For certain monitors, pulsed electromagnetic fields capable of exciting sensory resonances in nearby subjects may be generated even as the displayed images are pulsed with subliminal intensity.

[14april2000]

It is disinfo/misinfo, i have talk people in the industry they all say it is not possible. it is "SCAREMONGERING."

[marpat]

naked chief , how to look good naked :rolleyes:

I had induced headaches all day , kept up all night .

theres people that care dude ok and know whats going on


breakdown,rebuild,breakdown,rebuild ect..............

or some media/based "behavior change" campaign

all you have to look at the guilt/blame they use in global warming and stop smoking ads Etc..



some of you don`t have a scooby doo, some do and what to ridicule my claims


Whatever

[lizzy]

It is disinfo/misinfo, i have talk people in the industry they all say it is not possible. it is "SCAREMONGERING."

Whatever

:D

deca your the one with knowledge, and these guys know it.

[marpat]

:D

deca your the one with knowledge, and these guys know it.

All I see is somebody posting loads of stuff taken from the internet. Parrot fashion copying.

[deca]

All I see is somebody posting loads of stuff taken from the internet. Parrot fashion copying.

whos parrot I am:D

[grachtengordel]

Whatever

I think you might be suffering from N.T. or NeuroTypical syndrome

from : http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Neurotypical_syndrome

Persons afflicted with this disorder should be referred to as persons with Neurotypical syndrome, persons with NT or persons who have NT. Though it seems that most persons with NT would prefer to be referred to as neurotypicals, NTs or even normals

Symptoms
Persons with Neurotypical Syndrome, commonly and to a significant degree, display a variety of symptoms of their debilitating condition. Here, some of the most significant ones are summarized.

One of the most striking symptoms, likely to shock and alienate any healthy individual attempting to more than briefly communicate with them, is their acute averseness to honesty; they find it greatly insulting whenever people disrespect them so deeply as to actually tell the truth instead of manipulating them emotionally with blatantly obvious lies. Knowing how other NTs are the same in this regard, such behavior has become the standard among NTs, and they expect not only people of their kind, but others as well, to follow and show their appreciation of it.

(5) marked abnormalities in the form or content of speech, including stereotyped and repetitive use of speech (e.g., immediate mindless or mechanical repetition of NT peers' latest 'in' or catch phrases) (e.g., "whatever" to mean "I am saying I disagree with you but I want you to be upset by my saying so in this way")

Intellectual Deficits
Once a person with NT has made up his or her mind, a process typically involving little mental activity, he or she likely refuses to acknowledge even the slightest possibility of being mistaken, no matter how much solid, logical evidence is presented. For some reason, they are however generally very quickly convinced when exposed to emotional manipulation, the standard method of argumentation between NTs.

You may find this site helpful

http://isnt.autistics.org/dsn.html

[phildee3]

They spend millions on coupons, why? because they want the PROPAGANDA machine to stay ON. If every American stops watching TV and everything goes on static, they would wake up faster, so they need to spend those millions on coupons in order to keep the sheep asleep.



I'm curious to know why they are so desperate to go digital.
The analog signal is just as efficient at propagandising.
There must be something else going on, some kind of brainwave frequencies, with which they can manipulate us.

[deca]

I think you might be suffering from N.T. or NeuroTypical syndrome

from : http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Neurotypical_syndrome



You may find this site helpful

http://isnt.autistics.org/dsn.html

Neurotypical_syndrome

(borg)how bad is this shit:eek:

Thats got to be a wind up?
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/a/a7/Mullet.jpg

Despite what the NT rights movement may say, this is what you get when NT goes untreated and NT inbreeding occurs.


clever c**ts

the last laugh on you, thats makes so funny:)

[amethyst]

I'm curious to know why they are so desperate to go digital.
The analog signal is just as efficient at propagandising.
There must be something else going on, some kind of brainwave frequencies, with which they can manipulate us.

I've posted this 3 times......

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

[14april2000]

It is disinfo/misinfo, i have talk people in the industry they all say it is not possible. it is "SCAREMONGERING."

Whatever

:D

deca your the one with knowledge, and these guys know it.

I guess they lie to me. Anyway it dosen really matters because i have no intend of buying any of thees products.


To add to that I stop watching TV 6-7 years ago, i have never felt better.

[grachtengordel]

the last laugh on you, thats makes so funny

in english please

[dankai]

Just found this....

HOAX: Cameras in Digital Converter Boxes

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2009/02/20/hoax-cameras-in-digital-converter-boxes.htm

[1337]

an optical remote sensor can be reversed to be a camera.

just like an LED can be reversed to detect light, instead of produce light.

just like a speaker can be reversed to be a microphone.

so a TV tube be used to capture images ? aswell as produce images ?

why is a CRT tube called an electro gun ?

why is there a xerox folder in C://programfiles that cannot be deleted ?

because for every electronic machine, there is a reverse function that we are not supposed to know about.

oh yea . I dont copy paste things, I type for myself.

peace

[kingmonkey]

Technology can't be trusted; it was invented for them by them to use against us. we can't win. Get your t.v in the back yard and take a fucking bat to it! Then the p.c...

[alexc]

Then there's the rapid advance of spy satellite technology that can now see through your roof and walls and follow you around your house!
Why would they bother with cameras in digi-boxes, ffs?

If my experience with network routers that use your electrical wiring instead of network cables is any indication those microphone light bulbs are going to provide pretty poor quality audio over a short range. They'll also have a much shorter life span than something built into a digital converter box. Converter box cameras and microphones will mean high quality recording equipment placed in the room Americans spend most of their time in in a device that will remain prominently placed for years even decades to come.

There's no reason for a surveillance minded despot NOT to push for it.

[ranran]

why is there a xerox folder in C://programfiles that cannot be deleted ?

It's there to remind people to use Linux.;)

[phildee3]

There's no reason for a surveillance minded despot NOT to push for it.



Yes there is -
spy satellites (and other external spying technologies).

You quote me, then ignore the quote!

If the spy device is inside your home, you could remove or otherwise incapacitate it.
If it's outside, there's nothing you can do about it,
and they are getting really good at listening and watching you from outside your home.

[alexc]

Yes there is -
spy satellites (and other external spying technologies).

You quote me, then ignore the quote!

If the spy device is inside your home, you could remove or otherwise incapacitate it.
If it's outside, there's nothing you can do about it,
and they are getting really good at listening and watching you from outside your home.

Spy satellites can't record conversations. Your voice doesn't reach into space. A spy satellite is an expensive piece of hardware that can only watch one or two people at a time. In home monitoring devices may be subject to removal but they allow inexpensive surveillance of a larger number of people.

So what if a few hundred people figure out what's going on and remove them? The vast majority will be more concerned with watching the latest American Idol than if they're being watched by someone else.

[nodens]

There is also the flip side. If the boxes can infact be used like that then if they see that, that person over there has removed the camera then they know that that person is aware of the camera as such that house bears future attentions.

[whoami]

The claim that a camera and mic was found in a converter box was a hoax.

Just go to youtube and search for Alex jones converter box, and you can watch a video of him disassembling the exact converter box that was suppose to have the camera/mic in it. He did not find anything.

It is worth mentioning that the converter boxes only plug into the wall. They do not have a phone line/cable connection. Unless a box was accessing the Internet via WIFI it would be impossible to transmitt a video/audio feed.

[marpat]

Even if this is true you then have to ask who put the camera there. People just assume it is some big brother monitoring but what if it was a criminal or a person trying to get some information on somebody in order to blackmail them, or something along that line. Unless people know who put the device in then you cannot really know the real reason for it being there.

[1337]

watch out for sales men or religous people that knock on your door, once they get in your house they will ask to use your bathroom, they will plant a monitoring device.

[alexc]

There is also the flip side. If the boxes can infact be used like that then if they see that, that person over there has removed the camera then they know that that person is aware of the camera as such that house bears future attentions.

Yet another reason to not even buy these things in the first place.

[flyermay]

Hidden Spy Camera & Mic Found Inside Digital TV Box

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?swf=http%3A//s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/cps-vfl99456.swf&video_id=TQ4iIM8Eljc&rel=1&eurl=http%3A//www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php%3Ft%3D54489&iurl=http%3A//i1.ytimg.com/vi/TQ4iIM8Eljc/hqdefault.jpg&sk=cp_FSDEc02OHKO6OFoWVMhoZ02P6sZw4C&fexp=902301&cr=US&avg_rating=3.5779674166&length_seconds=97&allow_ratings=1&allow_embed=1&title=Cameras%20in%20Digital%20Convert%20Boxes!%20 BEWARE!!!!

http://www.prisonplanet.com/hidden-spy-camera-mic-found-inside-digital-tv-box.html

Sorry, but the supposed camera and microphone are a fake; you can clearly see that the camera has been simply attached to the transformer and the supposed micro to a simple transistor. Apart from the fact that none of them are wired to the circuit, the camera would not be able to pick up any images through the frontal of the device.