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Following today's publication, by WikiLeaks, of documents exposing the CIA's secret hacking program - describing tools that can turn a world of increasingly networked, camera- and microphone-equipped devices into eavesdroppers, AP's Frank Bajak answers the public's biggest questions. Bajak warns consumers, there's "not much you can do if you don't want to sacrifice the benefits of the device," but offers a silver-lining of sorts for the average joe, the "tools that appear to be targeted at specific people's (devices)..

Submitted by Alice Salles via TheAntiMedia.org,

Technology has, for the better part of the last decade, changed our lives in significant and groundbreaking ways. But as technology continues to make great strides, helping us change the way we do business and live our lives, it is also employed by bureaucrats looking to keep an eye on everyone.

An Englishman from Lincolnshire has found a novel way to take off his socks while sitting at the back of a truck… Inventor, Colin furze removes his socks off with the aid of a rocket launcher and has posted a video showing how he does it on youtube Lincolnshire Echo reports: It shows him sitting in a field with some string attached to his black socks. The other end of the string is tied to a rocket launcher mounted on his shoulder. The video shows Mr Furze fire the rocket and his socks shoot off – he then appears shocked that it went to plan.