The surveillance goes even further than Snowden has thus far disclosed. Over the years, I have accumulated considerable information about all the ways surveillance is conducted -- by government, military, and the private sector. Just the names and acronyms alone would fills a couple pages. Amongst these is the following.

Intel's CPUs now contain a second, internal stealth CPU that operates totally outside the operating system, contains all your HDD encryption passwords, and has its own back channel that can operate via cellular without Internet access. As long as power is connected--which nowadays is all the time since hard power switches have been replaced with soft ones--the stealth CPU has total control of the system and HDDs irrespective of the state your computer is in; can transmit the information without your LAN; and can turn on or off your computer.

What this means is, there is a backdoor into everything that contains an Intel CPU: computers, smartphones, tablets, networks, voting machines, industrial equipment, jets and other airplanes, ships, navigation, government computer systems, banking computer systems, military equipment, and so on.

Quite simply, we now live in a world where everything can be centrally monitored, controlled and shut down--gas stations, electricity, communications, electronic transactions, jets and missiles in flight, ships at sea, etc.--at any level of granularity: an individual, a family, a social network, a neighborhood, a city, a county, a region, a state, a nation, or even the world.

Be sure to watch the 2 videos.

1. video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEsogFdz7I (Preview)

2. video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlj7u3tOQ9s (Preview)

4. article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_vPro