And possibly not but so what? Any government agency who cares to listen to my
daily interactions is more than welcome - they'd die of boredom inside an hour
or two. An I suspect that the same goes for just about every member of this
list, if not all. Conspiracy paranoia is not a happy lifestyle. And I'm too old
to bloody well care.
I don't have (m)any conversations that require me to place my phone in the
fridge and turn on the taps - I'm not that important, or scared or just plain
nuts.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Author/Publisher:
The SLR Compendium,The TLR Compendium
http://www.soultheft.com/storehouse_photopublish/
On 08/06/2014, at 4:42 PM, ChrisB wrote:
> That's an interesting idea, Brian, but possibly untrue.
>
>
>> On 7 Jun 2014, at 20:08, <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Just getting into this book.
>> It sems that for many years the USA government has had the ability to
>> remotely activate cell-phones and turn them into listening devices. In 2006
>> a federal judge ruled that the FBI's use of so-called roving bugs - turning
>> a person's own cell phone into a listening device, was legal.
>> The only defence - remove the battery, or in the case of phones the
>> batteries of which can not be removed - put the phone into a fridge and
>> close the door.
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