I know the whole of Africa is busy feeding on the so called reality show called Big Brother Africa but that isn't what am talking about.
For all of you who have come to rely on the internet and your smart phones, androids and digital gadgets that connect to the information superhighway as a tool that gets you by on the daily, I am trying to prick your senses on the unfolding reality that in this information age, your secret is no longer safe. No thanks to the enfant terrible, Mr. Snowden, the turncoat CIA operative who brought the fact to the knowledge of the world that Big Brother USA (trading in the name and style of the NSA) have their eyes, ears and heart on everyone's case.
How does that concern you, right? Well for starters, it means you can be fished out from the over 7 billion people walking on the surface of the earth if Big Brother really needs you, anytime, anywhere!(like EFCC go talk).
Okay, you think you are a law abiding citizen so they won't come for you right? Wrong! It means that if the System wants to set you up like they do in the movies where a man goes to sleep as an innocent man today and wakes up the next day becoming the most wanted, they can. With enough details about your person, you can be easily profiled to look like the criminal you so despised yesterday that you would gladly submit yourself to be guillotined.
And what of all you guys and ladies who keep virtual relationships where you escape to for a little flirtation? How would you feel to see a transcript of your unedited text messages to your boss's mistress being forwarded to your missus' e-mail from an anonymous person ostensibly to make you realize the need to compromise on that awarding that contract to Mr. Pull-strings, who has connections to the Establishment?
You don't need to be convinced by this write up that your every move on google, Facebook, yahoo, LinkedIn etc via your laptop, iPad, blackberry phone, Samsung galaxy tab etc, is being monitored but do yourself the favour to keep your nose (and ass) clean every time you press the 'send' button on your device because surely, Big Brother is watching!
For all of you who have come to rely on the internet and your smart phones, androids and digital gadgets that connect to the information superhighway as a tool that gets you by on the daily, I am trying to prick your senses on the unfolding reality that in this information age, your secret is no longer safe. No thanks to the enfant terrible, Mr. Snowden, the turncoat CIA operative who brought the fact to the knowledge of the world that Big Brother USA (trading in the name and style of the NSA) have their eyes, ears and heart on everyone's case.
How does that concern you, right? Well for starters, it means you can be fished out from the over 7 billion people walking on the surface of the earth if Big Brother really needs you, anytime, anywhere!(like EFCC go talk).
Okay, you think you are a law abiding citizen so they won't come for you right? Wrong! It means that if the System wants to set you up like they do in the movies where a man goes to sleep as an innocent man today and wakes up the next day becoming the most wanted, they can. With enough details about your person, you can be easily profiled to look like the criminal you so despised yesterday that you would gladly submit yourself to be guillotined.
And what of all you guys and ladies who keep virtual relationships where you escape to for a little flirtation? How would you feel to see a transcript of your unedited text messages to your boss's mistress being forwarded to your missus' e-mail from an anonymous person ostensibly to make you realize the need to compromise on that awarding that contract to Mr. Pull-strings, who has connections to the Establishment?
You don't need to be convinced by this write up that your every move on google, Facebook, yahoo, LinkedIn etc via your laptop, iPad, blackberry phone, Samsung galaxy tab etc, is being monitored but do yourself the favour to keep your nose (and ass) clean every time you press the 'send' button on your device because surely, Big Brother is watching!
Gud advice.
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