The FBI can listen to your conversations even if you’re not on the phone and your mobile is turned off. How? There are little GPS locater devices in all modern cell phones. You can supposedly disable them, but you really can’t.
So, your phone’s turned off and you’re talking to somebody about precious freedoms or whatever and the Feds need to hear this for your prosecution before a military tribunal in Syria, so they use the GPS locater thing to activate the microphone.
True, or just some Fear Propaganda put out on Fox News to keep cranky conservatives in line?
2007-07-25 17:33:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
*laughs*
Actually, thinking about it, my phone was made in South Korea (Samsung) so why would the US trust an overseas nation to make this oh-so-important security item (for the US FBI)? And do you really think that phones work when they are turned off and out of battery... and a GPS locater and a microphone (in every modern cell phone), it would take too much money. Way too much money.
I agree, what is this doing in Books & Authors?
2007-07-25 17:39:49 · answer #1 · answered by istillcandream 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First off, I'm afraid you posyed this in the wrong forum. Unless, that is, this is coming out of some book you'd like to discuss.
Secondly, there is a big problem with that theory you were presented with. And that's the phone being turned off. According to this theory, even when your phone is off it's still drawing power in order to operate the listening device and the GPS that are supposedly implanted in the phone. But you'd notice the drain on your battery, so in order for you to not notice the drain they'd have to implant another battery to run these.
Now, open your cell phone and take a look at your battery. Mine is about half the sive of the key pad portion of the phone. With all the electonics that have to be packed inside, there's no space for even a button cell battery anywhere else. The battery would have to be even smaller in mine than it is to free up some space for a button cell, or some other, in order to run such gadgets.
That brings up another point right there, with all the electronics just to operate the cell phone, there is no space for a listening device. Much less a GPS which is going to require quite likely more electronics than your cell phone does. Actually take a look at a GPS device in a store. A Tom-Tom is slightly larger than a cell phone and about the same thickness. It needs the extra size not just so you can read the screen clearly when driving, it requires more computing power than a cell phone does.
You then have the problem of the supposed hidden battery being expected to continue running. One could easily claim that it recharges at the same time the phone's battery is being recharged. But most folks don't leave their cell phones on constantly as that wears down the battery. So they shut the phone off to save the battery's charge and extend the period between recharges. For the supposed listening device and GPS, the battery would die long before most folks recharge their battery, making them useless. Especially as it would have to operate two items rather than one.
2007-07-25 18:21:53 · answer #2 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just another conspiracy nut myth similar to the one that says Intel and AMD put special circuitry into their chips that go into computers destined for overseas markets which would allow those computer to be remotely taken over and /or disabled. If your cell phone is off, it is off. It will not be receiving any signals so it couldn't receive a signal to enable its microphone. If it was capable of doing that, not just the FBI would be doing it, every electronically inclined hacker would be doing it too.
Now, when you are talking over the phone and the signal is being transmitted to the cell tower, it CAN be picked up by the appropriate receiving equipment and listened to. However, the FBI wouldn't have this technology, they would get their friends at the NSA [for internal US] or the CIA [for outside the US] to do this for them.
2007-07-25 19:09:38 · answer #3 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The FBI's not *THAT* good. I mean, they work for the government, after all.
2007-07-25 18:23:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's total BS. Don't worry about it.
2007-07-25 17:41:38 · answer #5 · answered by Tim O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that they are capable of it.
2007-07-25 17:36:41 · answer #6 · answered by 7 Habits 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
what does this have to do with books and authors ?
2007-07-25 17:38:40 · answer #7 · answered by Rendevous 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋