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You Won't Believe What My iPhone Did in the Car This Morning
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | April 17, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 04/17/2012 11:11:21 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Red Badger
I've been under an illegal surveillance by the fed govt before.

This sounds exactly like the kind of crap they pull trying to intimidate you while at the same time trying to make you appear to be a nut if you report it to anyone.

They don't care if you know you are being followed, your phone is being tapped, they are reading your mail, etc. because that is the point, they want you to know. You just don't know who it is.

21 posted on 04/17/2012 12:36:37 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: texanred

That could be since the system has to work with the radio muting/unmuting. Perhaps it grabbed a source off a radio station rather than Rush’s own words.


22 posted on 04/17/2012 12:38:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Red Badger
An insider attack at the Apple server is certainly the easiest way to do it. If their IA people are any good, it will be pretty easy to hang the slob who did it.
23 posted on 04/17/2012 12:38:44 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Red Badger

We all need to remember that smart phones and other apps like ONSTAR can all be activated remotely by another party, even when they are turned off. These devices can then be used to monitor conversations and more. Soon even our household appliances will be able to spy on us—if you think I’m just paranoid, check out WIRED magazine regarding new spying developments.


24 posted on 04/17/2012 12:39:57 PM PDT by binreadin
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To: sportutegrl

I can think that they can deal with s/w updates to the servers a lot better than continually pushing out files to each and every iphone. They can also test them internally and fix bugs before updating, and screwing up everyone’s iphone.

It could also be the licensing agreement they have with Nuance (Dragon Dictate folks).


25 posted on 04/17/2012 12:40:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: sportutegrl
Why would you need to go through the upload/download rigamarole to an apple server somewhere else?

Cloud computing, turning people's devices and boxes into thin clients, and fostering dependency on IBM's, M$'s, Apple's servers.

All your data are belong to us. Pay up -- we own the world, you're just renting.

26 posted on 04/17/2012 12:48:24 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: IMR 4350
This sounds exactly like the kind of crap they pull trying to intimidate you while at the same time trying to make you appear to be a nut if you report it to anyone.

That's what J. Edgar Hoover did to his best agent, Melvin Purvis, for getting too famous (he took down many bold gunsels, including Dillinger). Hoover wanted all the publicity to go back to the agency (him) and all his employees to be anonymous and faceless. The newspapers wanted a hero, and they destroyed Purvis when they lionized him.

Hoover fired Purvis, then persecuted him for years, bugging him and having agents call him up anonymously and giving him menacing messages. Purvis eventually committed suicide, which was what Hoover was apparently after. "The coward's way out" -- blackening Purvis for all time.

27 posted on 04/17/2012 12:54:34 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: IMR 4350

This sounds more like some juvenile hacker living in his mom’s basement eating pizza and drinking Monster................


28 posted on 04/17/2012 12:55:49 PM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: Red Badger

That would be a step up from what the feds do to try and intimidate you.

One of the favorite things they liked to do was come into my apartment when I was gone, take a dump and not flush.


29 posted on 04/17/2012 1:06:07 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Red Badger

That would be a step up from what the feds do to try and intimidate you.

One of the favorite things they liked to do was come into my apartment when I was gone, take a dump and not flush.


30 posted on 04/17/2012 1:06:07 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: lentulusgracchus
Back in the late 80’s early 90’s they did the same thing to a Customs Agent that was a whistle blower on a dope running operation involving corrupt law enforcement. He was pretty much declared a nut. I don't remember what happened to him, but they had their reason to get rid of him.

I was under surveillance for the exact same thing. I had a run in with a cop that spouted his mouth off about being involved with a dope running operation involving corrupt cops and the CIA.

I thought the cop was a nut. He wasn't.

31 posted on 04/17/2012 1:19:14 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: IMR 4350

My dog does that all the time....maybe he’s an FBI informant?...............


32 posted on 04/17/2012 1:29:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: Kaslin
I want my 6 minutes back. Get to the point, man! No one can make a short story long like Rush.

GMail was down today for a while. Maybe this Internet thingy is starting to revolt.

33 posted on 04/17/2012 1:38:50 PM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: Red Badger

“Not only is this illegal, but dangerous. That means anybody’s iPhone/Bluetooth/WiFi setup can be hacked.”

Hate to break it to you, but anybody’s anything can be hacked. If man can make it, man can hack it.


34 posted on 04/17/2012 1:52:41 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Semper911

I want my 6 minutes back. Get to the point, man! No one can make a short story long like Rush.

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Dittoes.

This is why I no longer listen to Rush. Between the 3 minute segues to life lock or whatever he’s shilling for, he goes way off on the boringest tangents ever.

This blather about his apple phone being down is rather interesting in comparison to his other ramblimgs


35 posted on 04/17/2012 2:11:06 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Kaslin

The NSA punk’d Rush this morning?

haha, those NSA guys are so funny.


36 posted on 04/17/2012 2:12:56 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: jboot
Rush should perhaps be less keen on Apple.

You care to make a list of the Conservative Providers? It is pretty easy, there are none.

37 posted on 04/17/2012 2:30:40 PM PDT by itsahoot (I will not vote for Romney period, and by election day you won't like him either.)
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To: Kaslin
"The dictation does not occur, the translation does not occur in the phone. What you say is transmitted at whatever connection speed you're using -- 3G, 4G, or Wi-Fi -- to Apple servers wherever they are. The speech is then transcribed to text by a company called Nuance, which makes Dragon Dictation, and that's the voice-to-text aspect of Siri in the iPhone.""

Maiden, NC -- Every use of Siri is analyzed, ostensibly to improve its implementation.

Whoever is doing it knows Rush's iPhone number, LTE & app usage. Occam's Razor suggests it is a hack done locally (who sold him the iPhone? that cat knows Rush's number and his iPhone serial/ICCID and his LTE info); but as an equal possibility, Apple in NC also gets that proprietary iPhone data.

If you're Rush, people know your voice. What gets to the NC data center is your voice and Siri responses, that's what Apple analyzes.

38 posted on 04/17/2012 3:02:26 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (=)
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To: sportutegrl
I’m surprised that the iphone doesn’t have an internal speech recognition app. Android has an internal speech recongition software and there are apps that convert to text. Why would you need to go through the upload/download rigamarole to an apple server somewhere else?

After buying an iPhone 4S, I gave that question some thought. I believe it all comes down to processing power. Rather than analyze your voice on the puny microprocessor, it is analyzed by powerful computers back at Apple, which should result in greater accuracy of the speech recognition. Siri is still in the beta test stage. As Apple continues its refinement of Siri, it is not necessary to push downloads of updates to your phone; instead, all updates to Siri happen on the server side.

39 posted on 04/17/2012 3:42:08 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Kaslin

All your WiFi are belong to us!


40 posted on 04/17/2012 4:13:08 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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