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Offline Kosh

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Re: If your phone was suddenly tapped......
Reply #20 on: March 24, 2008, 08:43:36 am
Quote from: FUBAR-BDHR on March 24, 2008, 12:13:01 am
Seriously I can't believe no one has stated the obvious.  How would they no to tap your phone during the conversion when the key words were said unless it had already been tapped and monitored?


Because of massive surveillence by the NSA of people NOT being investigated?
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Offline DeepSpace9er

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Re: If your phone was suddenly tapped......
Reply #21 on: March 24, 2008, 05:35:40 pm
Yeah, this isnt communist KGB Russia... There arent 20million people sitting around waiting to monitor phone calls. Phone calls that are 'monitored' arent really monitored by live people. The only time your call would be 'tapped,' more likely 'traced' would be with you were under investigation and it was an international call. Keywords would probably be transcribed automatically, and if it escalated to that point, eventually it would be monitored and even then thats unlikely.. it would probably be pre-recorded and played back. Even still, I dont think the government gives a **** about what grandma and grandpa are doing. Hell its not WW2 where their MAIL was opened and inspected by the government. Sheesh there just isnt the manpower or the resources to monitor the billion phone calls made in and out of this country every day.
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: If your phone was suddenly tapped......
Reply #22 on: March 24, 2008, 11:44:40 pm
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Sheesh there just isnt the manpower or the resources to monitor the billion phone calls made in and out of this country every day.

If it's all automated there wouldn't be a need for a large numbers of people to do it. Ever heard of the Echelon System? That's just one example. The NSA does have the ability to use data mining techniques to evesdrop on millions of people's phone calls.   
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Offline FUBAR-BDHR

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Re: If your phone was suddenly tapped......
Reply #23 on: March 25, 2008, 01:02:36 am
Anyone notice that since this thread has been going on political adds have started popping up on HLP?  Just saw one for a PBS show on Bush.  Not only do we have to worry about the Echelon system but the all powerful Google. 
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: If your phone was suddenly tapped......
Reply #24 on: March 25, 2008, 10:52:59 am
Frankly, I'd worry about Google more. They're actually competent.
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