Back when I was first online, circa 2001, I came across a post on a forum (I
can't find it now, it may no longer exist) from a person who claimed that he
left what was then called the GPO in the 1950's (now called BT) when he
discovered that when you put a domestic phone back on its cradle that the
speaker was cut off but not the microphone and that the roll out of the
domestic phone network was basically a State sponsored bugging program (how
they must have laughed, indeed are still laughing, that we pay them for the
mechanisms used to spy on us) and that any house with a phone could be
listened in on. (I worked for BT briefly in the early 1980's and there were
rooms with military personel in them underground beneath one of the BT
buildings. "Listening for enemy activity" I was told. I just presumed they
meant "the enemy" as in the Cold War.)
At the time I thought "oh dear, paranoid much?"
Bearing in mind that basically pretty much everything we've been told since
1945 has been an artificial contruct (the lies told about WW2 in the official
account are off the scale) and pretty much everything you see on the News is
made up, added to all this now coming to light about computers and I'm
thinking, no, not paranoid at all.
If it's been going on since the 1950's then it's now very advanced indeed.