Eh?
Posted on 11/19/2009 7:25:47 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
Good grief!
15 years ago, I remember old analog cell phone signals coming across my 900 Mhz scanner. I heard lawyers talking about cases, and real estate agents giving SSNs to mortgage companies. It was the cellular wild, wild west back then.
Is someone listening to all phone calls: YES
Is someone logging Twitter messages: YES
Is someone logging text messages: YES
Is someone recording fax messages: YES
Is someone recording blog posts: YES
Is someone saving all websites visited: YES
Is someone logging credit card purchases: YES
Is someone recording...etc., etc., etc.: YES, YES and YES.
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Any more dumb questions?
“Is someone listening to your cell phone calls?” Yes because too many people are doing mindless chit chat so loud that everybody in the grocery store can hear.
Anyone who is not concerned by this thinks they have no enemies.
Anyone who Freeps has enemies, unknown though they be.
Excellent point.
Digital changed that.
Thankfully.
This comes under the heading of “slipshod voyeuristic surveillance”, and has become a serious problem. But before I give you the problem, let me describe the end game.
England has over a million CCTV cameras, but only about a thousand of them are regularly monitored. As such, they are just intrusive and omnipresent. But what makes them dangerous is that since the government cannot monitor them, it is going to start paying the public to monitor them. By offering cash prizes if the public sees anything interesting to the government. A massive informant network not seen since the end of East Germany. Life in a vicious fishbowl.
But what about America? In some ways, we are even worse than the Brits, but in different, equally unwholesome ways. Any number of government organizations and corporations create and swap personal information about people, to a point of nonsense or ridiculousness.
And there is little or no error checking in these databases. This information is compiled, consolidated, bought and sold, then it is “data mined” to discover other data—connections between you and other people and events.
The sad and bizarre thing is that many organizations *care*, at least voyeuristically, about compiling vast amounts of data about you, factual or not.
In fact, this posting that you are reading right now has likely been archived, not just by the government, but by corporate and even private organizations, because nothing attracts the attention of voyeurs like talking about them.
The ability to reach inside your computer and get data is well known. Passwords, credit card numbers, whatever. And even if it can’t be done directly, your computer, keyboard, and monitor give off more than enough electronic signatures to see what you are doing from over a block away.
Virtually every long distance call in the US is monitored by computer, and this was happening in the early 1990s. By now, not only local and cell phone calls, but passive cell phones are likely routinely monitored as well.
The only hope we really have is threefold. First is incompetence and inefficiency on the part of the voyeurs. Second is that they are deprived of the money to continue with such lewd behavior. And third is a renewed sense of federalism in the United States, that outlaws such depravity.
>> The best way to make sure your cellphone is really turned off is a hammer.
Having it fall out of your shirt pocket into the pit of an outhouse in a remote national park works pretty well, too.
Please do NOT ask me how I know that.
Given the crappy cell phone reception in our rural area, I say let them listen and please send me a transcript.
>> But what about America?
We have guns.
The Fed.gov “judges” have already ruled that there is legally NO expectation of privacy on wireless devices, though. That means use a LAND LINE!
Eh?
Gotcha !!
bump
The spyware could masquerade as an app and be loaded by the user himself. There are thousands of free apps for iPhone, Blackberry, Droid, etc. The user thinks he’s installing a game app or some dumb utility app, but it’s really the spy software that gets loaded.
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