"Deception Point"... I'm late to the party.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

Just read the novel by Dan Brown (also author of The De Vinci Code) and found its message disturbing. No, not the message that in a presidential race almost anything can happen. What irked me was the level of technological capability already developed and in use in spying on people -- substantiated in the "Author's Note".

We speak of Big Brother, and see movies like "Enemy of the State" wherein some semblance of the advances in technology are illustrated, but this left me deeply affected. Is nano-technology so sophisticated that the "fly-on-the-wall" is already functional? This is mostly a rhetorical question because if you knew, you couldn't tell me anyway... or, you would have to kill me if you did divulge an affirmative answer.

Just going through a :tinfoilhat: moment here and wondering about the pervasiveness of government intelligence (yeah, I know, an oxymoron if ever there was one) in our lives.