Eavesdropping The Ball

How the hell did we miss this??! Last night the multi-defined Jonah Peretti (Director of R&D at Eyebeam, Huffington Post webmaster, brother of Chelsea Peretti) moderated "an investigative evening with masters of eavesdropping! Hear how online conversations are snooped for financial gain; the covert ways in which our government employs espionage; the 'best of' overheard conversations from the city that never sleeps; the new methods used by private investigators and how eavesdropping fuels art." The extent of our eavesdropping experience is limited to the childhood practice of unscrewing the bottom part of a telephone receiver to listen to sibling conversations without the fear of getting caught by giggling or heavy breathing. We could use an update in the latest technologies. If anyone attended this event please send in a summary to tips [at] blottered [dot] com. Thanks.