I’d reply but I don’t want it recorded.
Well i hope they like to hear me talk about my crazy MIL my dog and my IBS bathroom habits
The use of this vast phone surveillance system may not all be for national security. Some of it is for the phone sex.
If they are then they have heard me tell the DNC $ Soliciter to “Bugger Off!”
Add-in faxes, emails, credit card transactions etc etc etc, and the NSA’s new facility in Utah is the world’s largest vacuuum. The storage capacity is beyond mind-boggling.
I would say yes.
The Utah Data Center in Bluffdale outside SLT has more computer memory than all of the outside world combined. And its not only phone calls, it’s texts, email —the works. Your amazon purchases, those on Ebay, cc purchases, train & airplane tickets —EVERYTHING.
Admissible in court? No, but used all the time.
It is all COMPLETELY outside of the Constitution, the OS of our country.
For the past 6 or 7 years, I have made the assumption that any electronic signal that I generate for the purpose of communicating may be recorded and stored for surther examination if the need arises.
EVERY electronic communication in this country is interceptable. Never forget that.
If you want to talk to someone and it not be recorded, sit down with them face to face and talk to them.
Digitized voice is just 7K bytes/sec. Storing phone conversations would not take that much storage space by today’s standards.
Storing all text messages (which seems to be the preferred method of communication by the younger generation) is trivial.
The words “Carnivore” and “Echelon” ring any bells?
I thought the UK gubberment monitors all the US calls for our gubberment and the US gubberment monitors all the UK calls for them.
FReegards
If you’re not a criminal or a terrorist plotting something nefarious, why do you care? The Feds aren’t going to waste time and manpower listening to you cuss out your brother on the phone because he let his wife steal your lawn mower.
Homeland Security’s Long, Long List of Social Media Buzzwords
http://www.geekosystem.com/dhs-list-of-buzzwords/
Isn’t this what the NSA has always done?
You can guarantee they’re monitored for key words. I don’t talk politics on the phone for that reason.
Well let’s kick some numbers around.
For purposes of archival, allowing for poor quality in favor of completeness, one’s life could be continuously recorded on HD video at the rate of about 1TB per year. In large volume optimized for the purpose (constant recording, occasional limited playback), that kind of storage could cost maybe $10 per citizen for total 24/7/365 surveillance. $3B/yr is feasable for federal budget of such a project.
That we’re talking occasional digital audio communications over a few easily tapped trunk lines, total cost is far less than always-on HD video.
Short answer: sounds impossible from sheer volume of storage, but in fact very feasible.
The interesting thing is, just as CALEA and the Patriot Act were implemented, the telecom industry collapsed and along with it were dispersed to the winds most of the people having technical understanding of the capabilities.
If I never take my cell with me because I don’t want to hear from you a good thing now? I get a lot of grief, but eff em.