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FBI Can Turn On Your Phone Mic?
Foxnews ^

Posted on 08/03/2013 11:06:50 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

A former U.S. official told The Journal that some of the technology allows the FBI to remotely activate the microphones in phones running on Google Inc.'s Android software to record conversations.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1984; android; bigbrother; cellphonemic; georgeorwell; google; googleandroid; surveillancestate
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To: Red in Blue PA

And so can you.

http://www.mobistealth.com/mobile-phone-spy-software

Software like this has been available for over 10 years.


121 posted on 08/03/2013 8:16:59 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Red in Blue PA
Actually, Google is fighting National Security letters

Google has been a willing provider of private citizen information to the feds for years. There's no reason to try and reverse the course of the tides, now.

122 posted on 08/03/2013 8:19:29 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for the American politburo!!)
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To: Gaffer
Recording the actual phone call or not even a call to anyone is plain old eavesdropping monitoring. They had damned well better have a named warrant for that.

Re-read the Patriot Act. Obama has determined that the following American citizens qualify as "terrorists" and therefore, under the provisions of the Patriot Act, he doesn't need a warrant to spy on:
Veterans
Christians
conservatives
gun owners
anyone who isn't black
anyone who didn't vote for him
Tea Partiers
Etc.
Etc.
Etc.

123 posted on 08/03/2013 8:25:51 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for the American politburo!!)
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To: Bobalu

i could do some very interesting things with that access and rthe motivation to hack the droid


124 posted on 08/03/2013 8:35:35 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: sten

Did you see this interesting post on HackADay?

http://hackaday.com/2013/08/01/hackrf-or-playing-from-30-mhz-to-6-ghz/

The price of admission is getting mighty low :-)


125 posted on 08/03/2013 8:47:06 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: GeronL
not obscure enough?
126 posted on 08/03/2013 9:03:35 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Bobalu

very local, but very nice. almost too nice. makes me wonder if they’re tracking who wants it

the stuff that gets my brain turning is in the area you mentioned before. being able to dnload an agent across the country and have those agents all work together... what would you want it to do? my DoD background immediately thinks ‘sniffer’ for evidence of various bad mojo (radiological, chemical, phrase sets, certain voice patterns, etc) and whether or not the basic droid would have the ability to sense any of it (pretty sure there’s no air sampling... but maybe they put it there so people would buy them and disperse willingly)

of course, that’s all from a protect the country standpoint... which the current admin isn’t interested in doing.

which leads you to wonder how THEY would use it


127 posted on 08/03/2013 9:09:50 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I wonder if he can communicate with other Klingon speakers who don’t also speak English?


128 posted on 08/03/2013 9:15:50 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

If he can’t, they aren’t speaking the same language...


129 posted on 08/03/2013 9:29:57 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Smokin' Joe

But they could have a heavy accent. :p


130 posted on 08/03/2013 9:40:30 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

South Klingon?


131 posted on 08/04/2013 2:21:38 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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