I heard something about this kinda thing on the radio a few weeks back. Can you really activate the mic in a turned off cell as long as the batterys in? I always thought there would be a switch that pretty much completely stopped power usage when its off. This video is old but the guy on the radio sounded like he knew his shit and it was the same topic. Whats your thoughts GC? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G1fNjK9SXg]YouTube - CELL PHONE (FBI can listen to you when phone is turned off)[/ame]
The patriot act at work. I have a feeling the patirot act was put in place because of corporate lobbying. Phone companies have valuable information... they have access to mapping out where people travel all day. This is a huge industry. Myspace/facebook/twitter (pictures, comments recevied/given etc.), google (the searches you make), yahoo (" "), safeway (the products you buy), your email provider, every major corporation you give information to.... sells your information to data companies. These companies are compiling data, prioritizing it, and selling it to other companies with interest in certain individuals or large groups of individuals. Read your terms of service you always approve with no hesitation. The main reason they're compiling data is to learn how to market to you better.... How to sell you more products you don't know how to turn down. They have terabytes on all of us. It's fucking fascinating. It's like this consumer society is being shoved down our throats... our minds are being manipulated (And have been since birth) to crave certain products to create certain images of ourselves/fulfill certain desires etc. I reccomend this book - Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
You can't activate the microphone to a phone remotely, not that I know of anyway. (I do work in cellular phones) You can activate the GPS remotely, and the only way the federal government can "listen in" on your conversation, is if the carrier you use, lets them. We have codes built into the system that don't allow for unlawful wiretapping. T-mobile and Verizon both told the Feds to F/O without a warrant. ATT and Sprint both let them listen in without warrants. Who do you have for a cell phone. If its not Verizon, or T-mobile, I would suggest switching, if you are into anything illegal
If I'm having a private conversation with someone over a cellphone which I pay for monthly to use, I better be able to say whatever I want without fear of the government coming in and listening to my conversation. The government needs to chill out..
And then they use the age old excuse of it's only in place to prevent terrorists from discussing bomb plans and their newest dish cloth head dresses. This is america... It's the way. Although, a average person isn't gonna have feds listening for no reason. The government just doesn't have the resources to do so. If your not moving massive amounts of narcotics, selling children, or anything of that nature, your pretty much safe. Even if they did listen in, it's not like full tactical geared agents are going to pull the door off your house, toss a flash in, and take you in. You don't gotta live in fear like the dope dude in pulp fiction... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68s4g1-pVY]YouTube - Pulp Fiction - OD scene[/ame]
doubt they could listen in on 350 million americans at once. although it is making illegal activity harder to do....
Keep in mind they wouldn't even bother wasting time listening to you unless you were a suspected terrorist...it's not like they just do this shit for fun. Imagine how hard it must be, so many people have cell phones nowadays. They wouldn't waste their time and money tapping someone even for petty shit
The old saying is this. If you talk about drugs on the phone, you are asking to be caught one day. Use code. Dont Text "Hey man, where da weed at", instead text "Yo dude, its good?" I mean come on. Quit denying its there, live with it. Every arm they reach out, jump over it. Dont go "OMG, they are in my way" thats how you get caught.
Bogus. The longest time a cell phone company will hold on to records of your texts is 2 weeks (This is Sprint only, AT&T and others only hold for 48 hours). You don't need to encrypt your texts to your drug dealer asking for an 8th...nobody cares. Should you be blatant just to spite them and begin sending "Hey my drug dealing friend, would you happen to have any illegal drugs I can exchange money for?" No, but be realistic here...using codewords just makes people confused. I had some guy talking to me the other day about "slices" "kwaps" "noodles"....give me a break.
this. on star scares the hell out of me and is why i wont drive a new gm product. i heard someone big time got busted driving their car cuz the fed got a warrant to listen in to his car through on star. fuck that shit. and now i kinda want to cancel my phone bill if they are compiling all this data on me. ugh
lol i think if they wanted to tap a cellphone they would just do it with out tmobile's go, i mean who is tmobile compared to the feds? not shit.
Its impossible without our decryption equipment. The call is set up with a site specific timeslot, and there is no way, AND I MEAN NO WAY for anyone to guess what that timing rate is. The odds of finding that one timing rate, for even a 10 minute phone call would astronomical. Its just the way the equipment is run. It'd be like you trying to learn an alien language, that has a different language every other word, and they have 1,000,000,000,000,000 different languages. It'd be impossible, unless you are in the mind of the alien, IE, T-mobiles switch. So, unless they have a warrant, they can't understand shit.
Um, isn't this old news? And yeah, don't ever blatantly text/talk weed deals over the celly, that's just idioso.