Posted on 04/17/2012 11:11:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
This sounds more like some juvenile hacker living in his mom’s basement eating pizza and drinking Monster................
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.
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.
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.
My dog does that all the time....maybe he’s an FBI informant?...............
GMail was down today for a while. Maybe this Internet thingy is starting to revolt.
“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.
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
The NSA punk’d Rush this morning?
haha, those NSA guys are so funny.
You care to make a list of the Conservative Providers? It is pretty easy, there are none.
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.
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.
All your WiFi are belong to us!
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