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Welcome to NewsDesk on SiliconANGLE TV for Monday August 5, 2013. Security Researcher Brendan O’Connor recently conducted an experiment to determine how easy it would be for the average citizen to create an adequate spying tool. Joining us now to share in the experiment’s findings is SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto.

From the beginning of the NSA controversy, the agency’s defenders insisted Congress is aware of the disclosed programs and exercises robust supervision over them. But members of Congress, including those in Obama’s party, have flatly denied knowing about them. On MSNBC on Wednesday night, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Ct) was asked by host Chris Hayes: “How much are you learning about what the government that you are charged with overseeing and holding accountable is doing from the newspaper and how much of this do you know?”

The Senator, from there, went on to explain that he knew not of the magnitude, scope, nor scale of the surveilances, calling the “invasive actions” “indeed revelations to me.”

Well, in order to indeed promote how “terrifyingly easy” it is to monitor people, Brendan O’Connor, a security researcher, developed a device for less than $60 that can spy on your whole neighborhood.

See live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand.

On today’s episode of NewsDesk with Kristin Feledy, we’ll be speaking with our very own security expert John Casaretto, and we’ll ask him his take on the new creepy tech, and what the experiment proves about privacy in the modern age.

We’ll also be sure to ask him what kind of surveillance can be performed, how he did it, and most importantly, what you can do to make sure your neighbors aren’t peeking through your blinds with their computers.

There’s that story and more coming your way in just a few moments on NewsDesk with Kristin Feledy.

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