by treefrog » Mon 07 Jul 2008, 08:58:55
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quagmire', 'I') don't know whether the nasal implant thing is a reality or not, but why bother when the government can listen to not only your cell phone conversations, but any other conversations or sounds in the surrounding area even if the cell phone is turned 'off'. And most cell phones now have global positioning (gps) so they can also tell where you are at all times if your cell phone is with you. This is not a theory. It is a fact.
Of course they don't listen to every conversation, but computers listen for certain 'key' words, which in turn trigger the recording devices. If one desires a truly private conversation, all batteries from all cell phones in the area must be removed. It also helps to have lots of ambient noise like expressway traffic, or rushing water in the background.
Vulnerability to Being Used as a Microphone: $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ') A cellular telephone can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone. This is done by transmitting to the cell phone a maintenance command on the control channel. This command places the cellular telephone in the "diagnostic mode." When this is done, conversations in the immediate area of the telephone can be monitored over the voice channel. 4
The user doesn't know the telephone is in the diagnostic mode and transmitting all nearby sounds until he or she tries to place a call. Then, before the cellular telephone can be used to place calls, the unit has to be cycled off and then back on again. This threat is the reason why cellular telephones are often prohibited in areas where classified or sensitive discussions are held.
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Dude Quag:
You have so awesomely hit the nail on the head so hard there!
The cell phone is the ball and chain of this century.
In order for a cell phone to work it now has to send a position bit and a time bit and these are tiny, millions of them take only megabytes one billion seconds equals 33 years, if you had a cell phone on for 33 years, and they stored your exact location and position every second it would take like 5 gigs which is the size of one movie. in reality the pulse goes out every minute or so.
all your time/positions are saved and they are so easily connected that a computer can ask:
Tell me who was near 3rd and elm on the 29th of february 2007 and 4th and hazel on the 29th at midnight and at the library on march 22nd at about 4 pm and it will get you a list of people who fit the criteria.
you have three points it will certainly only be you
get it?
you might as well be pictured with a camera every minute of your life and at the bottom of the picture put position and time and date.
If you bought a laptop and anonymously went to three different libraries and emailed secret letters three different libraries, all they need is the time stamp and ISP of the three emails, and ask the computer who was there at those times and only your name would come up. awesome.
I turn my cell phone off when I drive and stick it in the metal glove box.
My "friend" was driving down highway 38 5 years ago. My friends cell phone rang and it was a friend we hadn't seen for three years since he joined the military. He just called to say high and to tell my friend that he knew he was at highway 38 at such and such a milepost marker and his speed. This was just at the time when all phones went digital, he was so awed by the technology he called my friend. all he had to do was type in his name and the persons position and speed and telephone number popped up. that was five years ago. things improve.
How do you think a missile hit the right CAR in Irak with a HARM? In a dream world, a cell phone cal has the position, the spy satellit better than google and real time looks and sees who is there, and shines a laser on it and the high flying predator releases the harm.
all within a minute. in another world this is all make believe so forget it. I have always wanted to mail my cell phone somewhere or stick it on the back of a truck with duct tape, also swapping cell phones with friends or putting it in your girlfriends handbag for the day would screw it up.
They also work while you are flying now...
they know what flight you are on.
Then there is the "circle of friends" mode.
you have a digital priority lis of friends and their freinds, and these are a group. if all of these locate same place, there is a meeting. busted.
They know where the crack houses are and who are the users lookat the trail map for the person they always circle to the crack house,
also who ELSE was there at that time, ok call them up, did they witness anything?
it is so big brother it should wake you up.
You need to be bribed?
only everyone knows when and where you meet and how many friends you have and how long it takes for a tryst.
also who else is there? Oh, a trio? interesting.
who is the other person? oh ok
wfollow her trail, oh, she comes to this motel nightly? isnt that illegal?We know what she does, and who her crack supplier is etc etc. Lets drive over and talk to her. she is at 5th and elm right now.
file that.
politicians have no clue how well they are watched, and the group in CHARGE has the advantage, they have this info.
I never take my cell phone to work or when shopping.