Posted on 08/03/2013 11:06:50 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
I’ve used those buttons before. ...For crypto comm phones now retired from service.
STU-III
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STU-III
Quite happy with my dumb phone, thank you very much.
As long as they can’t activate the camera on my phone...
Do what?
Oh, s#!t.
“As I recall during the cold war, the government had the ability to turn on phones mics when the phone receivers were replaced or hung up.”
Not unless they actually modified your phone. The line was actually broken by relay when the phone was placed in the cradle. This was true through the late 80s-early 90s. Newer phones are almost all digital and might be vulnerable to that. The old ones, nope.
Wrong...the battery has to be removed....it is still on if it is off...
Ah, they can edit...remember the He’s Black edit of Zimmerman!
Sure and they can turn the camera on as well. I have Where’s My Droid on my phone which isn’t as powerful as something the FBI or others could develop. I can get the gps location of the phone, turn on the camera, make it ring and lock the phone. With a little tweaking I am sure the could set so that the screen doesn’t come on when the phone camera is activated, turn on just the microphone, transmit the gaps location constantly all while not interfering with the phones functions. I unserstand that they can do some of this even if the phone is off. About the only way you can prevent it is to pull the battery.
They can do a lot this even if you turn the phone off. You have to pull the battery http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2006/12/can_you_hear_me/ and that’s an old article
It has been done. $6.95
You are correct.
This is why you should not trust ANYTHING that Google does. For many years, they have been reporting a variety of private citizens’ activities to the government.
IMO, this is just one more nail in Google’s coffin. I don’t use them and I don’t trust them.
The same is true of Facebook.
:( -- A day late and a dollar short, as always.
Darn it!
They know you’ve said you want to be invisible based on your IP and your post. So you just gave that away.
Or Apple or Microsoft.
The only way you are safe from such intrusions is to not use technology. If you believe either Apple or Microsoft are “safe” you are delusional.
Actually, Google is fighting National Security letters
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417460,00.asp
it wouldn’t bother removing itself. it would just modify the search software to insure it was never seen or reported (if those modifications aren’t already built in)
btw, they can do something similar to desktops.
nic cards have a nifty ability to allow a remote hacker to upload boot code then boot the box. done right, the uploaded code would dnload and install the necessary agent and log out, resetting the boot record (covering its tracks). the agent would then work with the existing system (previously compromised for the govt by microsoft and apple) and start recording / translating / uploading.
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