Telepathic Sex – The Only Alternative To Big Brother?

THIS MAY SOUND LIKE a bad joke, but it seems like Cambodia has decided to get all moral in an attempt to stamp out corruption; specifically they are trying to make adultery illegal. The thinking goes something like this… moral people are less likely to be corrupt, so if they outlaw adultery it will help stamp out corruption, or something like that anyway. The penaly for adultery is a year in jail. So what’s an honest-to-gawd adulterer supposed to do then?

When the Cambodian parliament passed this law on Friday the vote prompted a walkout by opposition lawmakers who said the law carried echoes of the Khmer Rouge and the Taliban in a country which should be tackling poverty and corruption instead of legislating about morality. I guess adultery must be fairly common over there, common enough to cause the opposition to leave the room anyway

If the lads were all off calling their mistrisses on their cell phones asking them to ‘cool it’ for a while until things blow over, they might be in for a little shock or two. Especially so if the morality police get their hands on some nifty internet-available technology which will dig up all sorts of personal information from your discarded mobile phones.

One company, Trust Digital of McLean, Virginia, bought 10 different phones on eBay this summer to test phone-security tools it sells for businesses. The phones all were fairly sophisticated models capable of working with corporate e-mail systems. Curious software experts at Trust Digital resurrected information on nearly all the used phones, including the racy exchanges between guarded lovers.

The other phones contained information such as one company’s plans to win a multimillion-dollar federal transportation contract, e-mails about another firm’s $50,000 payment for a software license, bank accounts and passwords andeven details of prescriptions and receipts for one worker’s utility payments. The recovered information was equal to 27,000 pages.

Is this the beginning of the end for some hanky panky on the side? Well, yes and no. The growing adoption of big brother technologies across the globe has made it pretty much impossible to do anything without leaving some sort of trail behind, but there are some mental (no pun intended) technologies and developments out there which may yet turn a head or two.

If you’re really stuck you could resort to some telepathic sex or if you are very very lucky, you might manage the odd nano-orgasm or two, because anything else just isn’t secure enough any more