Given that the NSA is tapping into your phone calls and spying on your Internet activities, you might have switched to a search engine which is more privacy-conscious.
You might have started using encrypted communications. After all, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the leading electronic privacy group – the Electronic Frontier Foundation – say that encryption helps to protect privacy. On the other hand, Tech Dirt points out that the NSA might consider you suspicious if you encrypt information, and so hold onto your data until they can decrypt it.
The above are all issues about which you are at least somewhat aware.
But there is a giant type of snooping which you probably don’t even know about. Specifically, ABC News reported in 2006:
Cell phone users, beware. The FBI can listen to everything you say, even when the cell phone is turned off. A recent court ruling in a case against the Genovese crime family revealed that the FBI has the ability from a remote location to activate a cell phone and turn its microphone into a listening device that transmits to an FBI listening post, a method known as a “roving bug.”
Experts say the only way to defeat it is to remove the cell phone battery.
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Removing the main cell phone battery in the smart phones will not defeat the power for the V-chip which is the component they hack into for remote activation. You have to go further into the electronics and remove the small lithium battery that powers that or just don't use the phone when you are going to say something negative about the communist take over of our country. Instead use a "Bama phone" registered under any name you want, they don't ask questions, it's only taxpayer money. Throw it away when done and then get another as needed.
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ReplyDeleteI have heard that also. They is another smaller battery inside the phone. The one I read about had a small wire extending from it.
What did I tell ya about talking on the phone?-De Niro as Jimmy Conway
ReplyDelete"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin