![]() " more false positives than benefits," he says. Forget the fact that there's no network connecting surveillance cameras in Macy's to the ones in intersections and parking garages Pironti notes that the facial recognition technology needed to make those cameras useful doesn't quite exist yet either. She's watching Shaw and Holloman wherever they go, in real time. Both mentioned EZPass and credit-card purchases as examples of how the government could keep tabs on a "person of interest." But those tracking tools pale in comparison to the voice's powers in Eagle Eye. Both Winkler and John Pironti, chief information risk strategist at CompuCom, agreed that there of plenty of ways that the government or a private company could theoretically track you. There certainly are large databases of information out there. But is there enough computing power, and is there really the interconnectivity required? The answer is: 'No way in hell.'" "Can you do individual pieces of what they're talking about? Yes. "People used to be so worried that the NSA simultaneously collected all communications, could read faxes, translate things on the fly, keyword search all cellphone calls," he says. Not to mention the fact that to make Eagle Eye possible, everything would need to be interconnected-something that, according to Winkler, is a long way off. Part of the problem is computing power: According to Winkler supercomputers powerful enough to process all the information required to make total real-time surveillance of every American possible just don't exist. "It's just in the overall grand scheme of things, the NSA couldn't even imagine having that capability." "There are different elements that are true," says Winkler. Ira Winkler, a former analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA) who is now president of the Internet Security Advisors Group, and author of Spies Among Us, compared the world of surveillance posited in Eagle Eye to those in Enemy of the State and the most recent Terminator movie. We went to a couple of experts with that proposition, and it wasn't the first time they'd been asked about how realistic sci-fi surveillance scenarios really are. "I think that's something that's been in development for a while." ![]() Caruso told PM's Digital Hollywood recently. Welcome to a supposedly realistic story of digital paranoia, where you're always being watched, and the government can hear everything your saying-even when your cellphone's off.īut just how close are we to a world in which everything digital is so interconnected that somebody, or something, can turn technology on you so completely? "The tech in the movie that's just a couple years away is that there would be one information hub, one place where would all go," director D.J. In another, when Holloman wants to bring her Porsche to a stop during a high-speed chase, the voice takes over her car's cruise-control capabilities to push it upwards of 70 mph. In one early scene, when Shaw refuses to answer his phone, the voice somehow manages to call and text the cellphones of every other passenger in his car on a moving train. Whoever's behind the voice can control the traffic grid, see through every ATM machine and networked surveillance camera, call any cellphone, post a message on any electronic sign and even override the manual controls of cranes at construction sites. In this weekend's new thriller Eagle Eye, the lives of Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) are hijacked by, well, a voice-an ominous and omniscient villainess that's equal parts Inspector Gadget and GPS voiceover.
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