A value commensurate with the audience he will bring to the show.
So quite a lot.
I spose Marooned would be a little obvious.
Rather than ‘cast away’ they should have called it ‘did a runner’ 
Desert Island Dick.
Putting him on a desert island is fine, filming it isn’t.
1 Like
Just been reading this!
Some interesting kit…
Now we are not only the most surveilled western nation, we also throw a shit load of online listening devices and cameras in our cars, homes and pockets and trust a handful of businesses with that data. The devil’s work is done.
4 Likes
Been the case for a long time. ISTR that when Claire first started with Vodafone (first half of the 1990s) Special Branch already had their own office in the HQ.
2 Likes
Back in ye olden days I used to lug a reel2reel recorder in a flight case around the BT exchanges for wiretaps.
Made by Racal who started Vodafone 
3 Likes
At least they had to, officially, apply for permission. Now its all just recorded, literally all of it. A smart phone in your pocket is just a mobile listening device for those that know how, along with a host of other devices. the Stasi look like rank amateurs these days 
Who was it who had cameras in stones in Russia, was that us? Almost laughable by what can now be acheived.
I understood that they were mostly interested in tracking certain phones rather than eavesdropping via the mics (but obviously I don’t really know). But that was then and this is now.
Given what Hezbollah have just learned, the very hard way, about the wisdom of trusting mobile comms devices I guess no-one is under any illusions these days that they can own you just as much as you own them.
1 Like
Hezbollah didn’t use mobile phones for that very reason, they just fucked up on the supply chain for their pagers and radio sets. That was a very successful operation by Israeli Intelligence.
1 Like
Just wait 'til everyone starts wearing smart glasses…
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses | Meta Store
Not even close, there’s much less than 1% of calls recorded in the UK.
Yes (strictly speaking they stopped using mobile phones for that very reason). Short of designing and fabricating the devices themselves, any group using wide-range 2-way comms is going to be vulnerable to their devices at least being tracked because the infrastructure operator can do it so easily. Eavesdropping’s an obvious risk too. And governments can pretty easily lean on the infrastructure companies.
Having a fair chunk of a command chain and fighting force near-simultaneously blinded/crippled/killed does require much more dramatic interference of course.
Topically, Ford (and no doubt all the rest), want a piece of the dystopian-surveillance action so your car can uncontrollably vomit advertising into your lap every time you go near the fucking thing…
The legal ones under warrant. Given what the NSA do in America I’m not sure i remain convinced we aren’t following suit.
Ps, lost track of the negatives there:)
Oh quite the opposite, until the early 2000’s we were leading the NSA by a long way and had much better tech and infrastructure.
In the 90’s there was pretty much a constant stream of civil service Montegos driving between Menwith Hill and Cheltenham ferrying hard disk caddies.
Years ago a pal with a van had a regular gig ferrying data from Leeds area to London. Think of it; cash in hand white van man considered more secure than internet.
What internet, in the 90’s you’d be looking at an ‘internet’ that would take 5 days to transfer the recordings for one day