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I find it unlikely that this is intentional. To do intentionally intentionally would require human monitoring (or more powerful context analysis than I've hear
by amalcon 12y ago
I find it unlikely that this is intentional. To do intentionally intentionally would require human monitoring (or more powerful context analysis than I've heard of): "Tor" is a homophone for "Tore" and "Torr", and in a few accents it's very similar to "Tour". It's also a prefix for a lot of words. At least "Tore" and "Tour" are more common in conversation than "Tor", and I'd expect things like "Torrent" to also be more common.
In the case of human monitoring, cutting the call off immediately is an odd response: usually both spooks and law enforcement would rather keep listening to get more information. An automated system might try to do that, but only one whose designers don't care if it's noticed: if my phone cuts off whenever I talk to a foreigner about a tour, I'm surely going to notice.
There could have been something fishy going on there, but it doesn't fit the usual threat models in non-dictatorial regimes.
- dm2 12y agoI agree that it was most likely a coincidence, other than server access any intelligence agency would have no reason to monitor me. Even if you were near the president and said on the phone or over a radio "Shoot the president's head" it could be completely justified depending on context (if you were a production crew talking to a camera operator for instance). It would be nearly impossible to sort out the false positives and even if you could it wouldn't prevent much because of code-words that could be used. Then again, we all know that bugs happen, there might have been a new system in place. It would be conceivable that the phone/tower/something received a bad command when the "recording" started and it caused the call to drop. I say "hacked" and "stolen" on the phone all the time, but those would likely be on the list of "calls to record".