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FBI can listen to you thru your cel phone even if it's OFF

Discussion in 'Technology' started by REMIX, Jan 25, 2007.

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  1. REMIX

    REMIX Two Time F1 World Champ

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    Tomf-1 F1 Rookie

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    perhaps, i am missing something but who are they listening to if it's off?

    ps: voicemail messages?
     
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    Tom,

    The word is that they can activate the microphone on your cell phone and listen to the conversations that are going on around you. Or if they activate mine they can listen to the music at the strip club. :)
     
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    Your private conversations with your friends, family and business partners, among anything else they want to hear.
     
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    Would you guys please turn your radios down?
     
  7. Martin H

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    There’s been some talk about this for ages, ever since I heard that a “friend of a friend” who worked at Nokia insisted on taking the battery out of his mobile phone whenever having private conversations.

    Personally, I just wrap myself in tinfoil every time I have I thought, fortunately that doesn’t happen very often though. :D
     
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    jesus, that's frightening.....
     
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    I wonder if anyone else has this technology. Why would this technology be available in a cell phone and how could the cell phone makes & gov't make sure this isn't hacked?

    So you trigger the mic to activate, then what? Listen through the cell network or through a scanner sitting close by?

    If you put the phone in "flight mode" would that stop it?

    I don't think the feds would waste their time listening to me but what's to stop the neighbors' kids?
     
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    They use the GPS chip that's inside the phone, so they wouldn't need to sit close by to listen. They can listen from anywhere in the world through satellites.
     
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    I'm fine with the gov using this (nothing to hide), but what if other governments of terrorists get this.
     
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    Most phones don't have gps chips so I think your info is a bit off. Could you provide a link for your source?
     
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    They will eavesdrop on me if I am reading for a part in a movie about nucleur terrorism. I'm toast.
     
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    Better delete those voice messages that Osama keeps sending me.
     
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    People are WAY to paranoid...I mean, is the gov't really gonna pop you because your cheating on your 24 year married wife??

    Unless you ARE in the mafia, or planning on bombing any building soon. You guys can go on worrying.
     
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    How do you know this? Have you been listening to me through my phone?

    Are you one of them?
     
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    :)
     
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    Im glad I live in Canada
     
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    hehe, ever see the simpsons episode where bart sports one of those so the satellite doesn't read his mind?
     
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    From now on, unless I need to use the phone, I'll only put the battery in when I'm on the toilet.
     
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    Another way around it is just use a disposable phone & keep switching them out.
     
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    Actually, I think they do...
    I believe they all have to have a GPS chip in them by a certain date so that they can locate people when they call 911, but I could be wrong.

    Sorry, don't know exactly what you want a link to. My last three phones have had GPS chips, so I'm just speaking from experience.

    EDIT: Here is one link that I found that mentions the law or whatever you call it. "A requirement for all handsets sold in North America to have GPS functionality starting in 2008..." http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20070125PD213.html
     
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    This is correct...
     
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