[anymouse]

NSA lives to crack codes. The computers just have to recognize a voice pattern and then they dump the conversation stream into the puzzle palace's sea of super computers to chew on their code and compare it with others. It isn't exactly real-time, but the bad guys better not get too comfortable, as they will be receiving visitors shortly.

[wita]

...and depending on the method of delivery, there might not be any noise at all, other than birds tweeting followed by a boom heard by the living.

[hedgie]

NSA lives to crack codes. The computers just have to recognize a voice pattern and then they dump the conversation stream into the puzzle palace's sea of super computers to chew on their code and compare it with others. It isn't exactly real-time, but the bad guys better not get too comfortable, as they will be receiving visitors shortly.

I can't resist the old '80's computer room riff on the NSA's ubiquitous recruiting posters:

"NSA is now funding research not only in cryptography, but in all areas of advanced mathematics. If you'd like a circular describing these new research opportunities, just pick up your phone, call your mother, and ask for one."