FBI Can Turn On Your Phone Mic?

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[sten]

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.

you are correct.

add a dedicated program to process any gathered audio into text... and open the mic for constant sampling. once the audio is in text format, route it to processing to be indexed and scored against a phrase matching database. anything above a certain level would be automatically routed to the attending agent.

and yes, i could implement such a system

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Nope, just native born, law abiding, American Citizens...

[advertising guy]

flip the logic...what if he DID ?

[Gadsden1st]

If you are not talking about something bad, why would you care? /s

[Vendome]

They are absolutely out of control.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

...the FBI to remotely activate the microphones in phones running on Google Inc.'s Android software to record conversations.

"But, but, but we promised it would never happen like that!" /S

[dragonblustar]

That’s a good point.

[hope]

Pig latin, anyone?

[dragonblustar]

You are right and the MSM would only be too happy to spread the lie.

[sten]

1987 is prolly a bit out of print

for those interested in reading:
http://wikispooks.com/w/images/a/a5/Spycatcher.pdf

[Red Steel]

You want secure. “One-time pad” will do. ;^)

[noinfringers2]

My bet would be on that at least 90% of all high Fed personnel including judges are tainted with having used tainted funds with a lot from Soros and his ilk.

[KarlInOhio]

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.

I occasionally worked in a place which had two buttons in the middle of the phone's handset. They had to be pressed to connect the microphone and speaker. My fingers would cramp if I had to be on the phone for more than a couple minutes.

[dragonblustar]

Soros, the devil seem to be one and the same.

[upchuck]

Reason number 89 why I don’t have/use a cell phone. I prefer to remain as invisible as I can.

[ez]

That would lead to them wanting everyone to have a phone,though. Oh,wait..

[Mark17]

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.

What a bunch of perverts. I am sure some of them are listening in on bedroom phones, to get their jollies, while husbands and wives are doing what husbands and wives do in their own bedrooms, and I don't mean sleeping.

[OneWingedShark]

WTF? Seriously....this govt is criminal and out of control.

Am I the only one who sees something like this and thinks:
If I had start-up capital, I could make a fortune selling Faraday-cage phone-cases.

[hope]

What is that?

[Bryan24]

“instead, they would install an app that would train itself on your voice over time... improving its voice to text conversion.”

And to take that one step further, they could fix the app so that it would erase itself if you started searching apps on your phone. Then, it would automatically upload after you stopped searching. You would never know if they listened to you illegally.