'point And Click' Eavesdropping

[Dubh Aingeal]

Building off the design mandates of CALEA, the FBI has constructed a 'point-and-click surveillance system' that creates instant wiretaps on almost any communications device. A thousand pages of restricted documents released under the Freedom of Information Act were required to determine the veracity of this clandestine project, Wired News reports. Called the Digital Collection System Network, it connects FBI wiretapping rooms to switches controlled by traditional land-line operators, internet-telephony providers and cellular companies. It is intricately woven into the nation's telecom infrastructure. From the article: 'FBI wiretapping rooms in field offices and undercover locations around the country are connected through a private, encrypted backbone that is separated from the internet. Sprint runs it on the government's behalf. The network allows an FBI agent in New York, for example, to remotely set up a wiretap on a cell phone based in Sacramento, California, and immediately learn the phone's location, then begin receiving conversations, text messages and voicemail pass codes in New York. With a few keystrokes, the agent can route the recordings to language specialists for translation.

[Homicidalheathen]

Yikes. Big bro is watching. Eh f*ck it. Nothing exciting ever happens around here anyway.....oh wait.....there is that nuke reactor I am building out in the shed lol!

So......there is this thing on my phone already. I have not activated it.......its called location, and it says enableing it would make my position (like I am in the millitary lol) detectable......hell I am thinking you don't have to enable anything.......they prob already have something on and know where I am at all times anyway.....but I am paranoid. Either way I am not giving up my celly!!!!

Like I said, I am not that interesting......let them watch.

And, could you imagine them hiring people to go through every phone conversation and text???? Nope.

Maybe something that zeros in on key words.....maybe.....except with accents and foriegn languages......I doubt it.

[Dubh Aingeal]

So......there is this thing on my phone already. I have not activated it.......its called location, and it says enableing it would make my position (like I am in the millitary lol) detectable......hell I am thinking you don't have to enable anything.......they prob already have something on and know where I am at all times anyway.....but I am paranoid. Either way I am not giving up my celly!!!!

They can triangulate your location based on which tower your connected to directly, which ones your connected to indirectly, and how strong your signals are at the diffrent towers.

And, could you imagine them hiring people to go through every phone conversation and text???? Nope.

They don't need to. A computer would just flag your conversation based on any number of key words it scans for.