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>Sure, but that's a little different than listening to everything. The NSA never cared about listening to everything, that would be completely unmanageable, fl
by joenathan 13y ago
>Sure, but that's a little different than listening to everything.
The NSA never cared about listening to everything, that would be completely unmanageable, flagging conversations with key phrases has always been the course of action.
>Not to mention trivial to detect. Just watch CPU consumption and start spouting off trigger words.
It'd also be trivial to detect that you were using a CPU usage monitor and turn off those keywords, viruses do these sorts of things all the time to avoid detection.
- drivebyacct2 13y ago>The NSA never cared about listening to everything, that would be completely unmanageable Someone sure hasn't been paying attention.
- s_q_b 13y agoThat's not correct. Since 2001, the NSA has been retasked to recording all SIGINT information, and figure out what's relevant later. This was the reasoning behind NSA Total Information Awareness (hence the name,) as well as its successor programs including PRISM, FAIRVIEW, MARINA, BASKETBALL, etc. Also, if you want an undectable CPU monitor, just use a temperature sensor strapped to the processor. Temp-monitoring was even used to find TOR hidden services.