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Interesting Dream About Cable Boxes
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Last night, I dreamt I was having a rather-trivial conversation with another programmer in his home-office (as many of us have), it was general 'day-to-day' chatter, and I started talking about his preferred operating system for Raspberry Pi's and coding related to hardware.

Suddenly, the conversation changed from 'daily flippant' to serious and he says matter-of-factly, 'well, you know since the NSA started mandating observation systems into the regular FELD BOX, they are making sure they are watching everyone just like in that movie about 'pre-emptive police actions'. If you have one of the newer boxes, they are watching and that's why they are changing systems to force more FELD BOXES into general population use.'

As I often have to do, I had to wake up (and strain to remember the dream) until I could get my eyes open, wash my face, and do a search on what 'a FELD BOX' was, though I felt I already knew somehow. I couldn't find the word in my preliminary searches, so I opened a translator page that auto-identifies a language and it indicated that it was GERMAN for 'field'. Instantly, I remembered we were talking about TV shows, and that he was referencing CABLE BOXES.  Then I remembered a small part of our conversation that I had already let slip away - that the reason they had set up the FELD BOXES to spy was that not enough people had 'smart TVs' that had built-in audio-video recording abilities (too many were still holding onto older hardware TVs), and that their way to get around this was to force Cable encoding via digital TV and then even on old TVs, the user would HAVE TO have the boxes on each TV in the house.

I promise I am not such a paranoid in conscious thought, but many of my dreams of late have to do with such 'conspiracy theories', and knowing you can PCB a microphone and camera on a circuit board for $10 is quite unnerving to know that this would easily be hidden in a $400 cable box for the tiny size and price involved.
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Interesting Dream About Cable Boxes - by Skeetersaurus - 04-15-2016, 11:13 PM

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