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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 Steel
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

21 posted on 08/03/2013 11:26:17 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Red in Blue PA; Rennes Templar

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


22 posted on 08/03/2013 11:26:46 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Rennes Templar

flip the logic...what if he DID ?


23 posted on 08/03/2013 11:27:00 AM PDT by advertising guy (Obama....."..Dick Durbin was unable to attend...We love dick ".........We know Barry)
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To: Red in Blue PA

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


24 posted on 08/03/2013 11:27:17 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: Red in Blue PA

They are absolutely out of control.


25 posted on 08/03/2013 11:27:18 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Red in Blue PA
...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

26 posted on 08/03/2013 11:28:24 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: gitmo

That’s a good point.


27 posted on 08/03/2013 11:29:06 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: Red in Blue PA

Pig latin, anyone?


28 posted on 08/03/2013 11:29:26 AM PDT by hope (Whom the Son sets free is free inded!)
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To: sten

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


29 posted on 08/03/2013 11:29:54 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: Red Steel

1987 is prolly a bit out of print

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


30 posted on 08/03/2013 11:33:33 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: hope

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


31 posted on 08/03/2013 11:35:32 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: dragonblustar

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.


32 posted on 08/03/2013 11:37:06 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: Red Steel
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.

33 posted on 08/03/2013 11:48:35 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: noinfringers2

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


34 posted on 08/03/2013 11:50:15 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: Red in Blue PA

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


35 posted on 08/03/2013 11:50:34 AM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: sten

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


36 posted on 08/03/2013 11:52:00 AM PDT by ez (Muslims do not play well with others.)
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To: Red Steel
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.

37 posted on 08/03/2013 11:52:10 AM PDT by Mark17 (Yesterday I couldn't spell it. Today I are one, a creepy a$$ cracker)
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To: Red in Blue PA
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.

38 posted on 08/03/2013 11:53:48 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Red Steel

What is that?


39 posted on 08/03/2013 11:54:27 AM PDT by hope (Whom the Son sets free is free inded!)
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To: sten

“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.


40 posted on 08/03/2013 11:54:43 AM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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