We have by now acquired an overview of how messages can be sent and how the Spider is able to monitor them.

Over the next few pages I will demonstrate how the Spider can if it wants to, monitor each and every one of you reading these pages. Again I must stress that 'we' are not 'Conspiracy Theorists' or paranoid, but everything you read in these pages is not only possible, it is happening every day to thousands of normal law abiding citizens throughout the world.

CASE STUDY: A 25 year old professional man.

He has a wife and two children.

He has a mortgage from a building society on his home.

He has a current account and saving account with a large bank.

The bank has also provided him with a credit card.

He has a company car and fuel card.

He has a mobile phone with itemised billing to separate he business from the personal calls.

He has itemised billing on his home phone for the same reason.

He has a laptop computer provided by his employer which he uses at home to send e-mails and surf the net.
He wakes up in the morning before his wife and children. He checks his e-mail, acknowledging and replying to them.
He sends a few e-mails himself.
He makes a few calls on his mobile while checking the house phone answer machine for calls.
He checks the post and notices another mis-directed letter. Right name wrong post code.
He grabs a quick glass of fruit juice and briefcase in hand heads out to his company car.
Top of the range sports model with the latest 'Geo-positioning Satellite' gizmo and an alarm that sends out an electronic tracking signal telling the receiving station that it has been stolen.
As he walks to his car he looks up and sees the security cameras which cover the whole of this new estate on which he has brought his new house.

He is happy in the knowledge that with the 24 hour patrols and security cameras, his family is secure.

He uses the electronic key to deactivate the car alarm and to open the car doors.

He gets into the car and starts the engine.The satellite gizmo screen burst into life and a detach female sounding computer generated voice tells him of the traffic situation on his normal route to work.

The gizmo is cool because it memorises the routes that he takes and the times that he takes them.

So unless he is not going to work on a weekday morning all he has to do is to say "New route" and the gizmo will ask him "Where are you are going?" And on his answer will plan various alternative routes to his destination avoiding any traffic congestion.
He pulls out of the driveway passing over sensors in the tarmac that registers on the computer in the security guard's post telling him that a vehicle is approaching.

The security cameras lock on to the approaching car and the number plate is scanned. The small electronic tag that is attached to the windscreen (a transponder) transmits a signal to a receiver that primes the exit system.
The guard is waiting to greet him as he approaches the exit barrier to the estate.
He stops in front of the barrier and inserts his personal card into the card reader by the driver's side of the barrier and the barrier lifts.
If the transponder signal, the car registration and the personal id card do not match, the system will go into alarm mode.
Defensive barriers will raise from the ground to stop the car crashing through the exit. Alarms will sound, the police will be automatically called by the computer system and the guard will train his gun on him until the police arrives.
The guard can only raise the barrier in the event of an emergency.No estate id card, no entry or exit.
As he drives onto the highway, he remarks to himself as to the top dollar security, the best that money can buy that has been installed on this exclusive, high rent estate.

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