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According to the patent, spotted by Metro, the system would use 'a non-human hearable digital sound' to activate your phone's microphone.
This noise, which could be a sound so high-pitched that humans cannot hear it, would contain a 'machine recognisable' set of Morse code-style beeps
Once your phone hears the trigger, it would begin to record 'ambient noise' in your home, such as the sound of your air conditioning unit, plumbing noises from your pipes and even your movements from one room to another.
Your phone would even listen in on 'distant human speech' and 'creaks from thermal contraction', according to the patent.
TV advertisers would use this data to determine whether you had muted your TV or moved to a different room when their promotional clip played.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @07:44PM (3 children)
It is all around us, even now on this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.... Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Snow on Tuesday July 03 2018, @07:53PM
Morpheus?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by anubi on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:44AM (1 child)
Maybe all this fear of "The BogeyMan" is seeing how our own Congress is interfering with our attempts to verify their isn't a bogeyman there.
Yet, they have shown that *they* are the Bogeyman many times over... but is the Bogeyman after you? You don't know.
You hear something go bump in the night. So far, you are free to turn on the light and see if the monster is under your bed.
Now, say we have some Congressman saying: "No! I forbid you to turn on the light and see! I am a Law-Maker and You are Not! The Bogeyman has shaken my hand, and I cannot let you see if the bogeyman is under your bed. For if you knew what the bogeyman looked like, or whether or not he is under your bed, he can no longer control you. As your Congressman, I must protect his business model."
So you hear something go bump in the night... and shake in your bed. Or break the law, reverse-engineer your situation, turn on the lights, and verify whats making the noise.
We are being kept ignorant... and ignorance breeds fear of the unknown. Check the history books and see who was so pissed off at Gutenberg for printing the Bible. A lot of business models require their mark to be ignorant for that particular business model to work.
For me, the last mainstream machine I truly trusted ran on DOS. Now, its Arduinos. I can trust an Arduino to turn a sprinkler on if the soil gets dry. Or let me telnet into it. Without someone dialing it up only to tell it to spy on me or retrieve some sort of marketing information.
I trusted my old Western Electric dial phone, as I could verify the hook switch had the phone's voice circuit completely off the line when it was on the hook... all that was on the line, when the handset was in the cradle, was a 20Hz series resonant circuit comprised of the ringing solenoid and its resonant capacitor, neither of which had the intelligence to snoop. When the handset was lifted, the bell circuit was switched out and the microphone/earphone circuit switched in. I knew I could discuss private things in the presence of the telephone as long as that thing was on the hook. Off the hook, consider the conversation public. This was during the day of the party line anyhow.. I believe most of us knew that anyone with a handset could listen in on the line. The only reason they did not listen more was the same reason I went to sleep in Church a lot... most telephone conversations are almost as boring as TV ads.
I still don't consider any telephone conversation to be truly private. They can do voiceprint analysis and know exactly who is on the line, at the central office, or watch for you should you show up on any line. Not likely unless you are a particular person of interest though.
Things aren't that simple anymore. Maybe I can still trust a cheapie LED flashlight or screwdriver these days to do what it was advertised to do - and nothing else.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by frojack on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:16AM
Next time maybe just a link to your journal page.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.