Are the allegations true that the government can " eaves drop" on our computer activities?

What can we do if true?

yes they can and do...USA is the worst...same as the phone lines where certain words trigger off surveilance...I wont write them down incase they start to monitor me so work it out....Bonb....tettor...

Yes it is true. Put a program in your computer that can detect snooping & when you find it expose it on your blog. You will be called paranoid but you will have the satisfaction of knowing you are right.

Can and do!! They are looking at me while I am typing this message!

Yes and so can a lot of other people. If you have something that you don't want any one to know about then don't put it on your computer.

Generally, only on your outgoing and incoming transmissions, not internal computer activities (e.g., drafting a document on your computer).

You can encrypt many of your e-mail messages, but cannot hide things like which websites you visit.

Note - "eaves dropping" on internal computer activities requires downloading software to allow this (hackers do it).

It is possible on a case-by-case to do so, but is generally useless for governmental "eaves dropping" purposes to do it on a large scale, because there are not enough people or computers to check everyone's internal computer activity.

Of course they do............eschelon is one way, the other way i know about is the listening rooms which have been built in all telephone exchanges, (NSA) as you know the net needs to be funnelled thru the phonelines. They also have backdoors thru most of the popular anti virus software thats out there including Norton, and others. The dotcom company crashes that happened a few years ago was the govt (CIA included) buying up the smaller, phone companies and ISP's so that more control could be exerted over the flow and deployment of information. They do listen for key words using bots and huge computer networks, Id like to think that if a million people were to type the word Osam a at the same time it might overload their servers and crash em but thats just wishful thinking bwahahaha.