What it boils down to is that people really have to start to encrypt their communications. Email, phone, carrier pigeons.
Email encryption is a no brainer nowadays. Even the most novice of users can use Skype. And I guess we could make the pigeons look like African swallows, they might go unnoticed.
But fun aside, the snooping capabilities are getting better and better, especially when it comes to keeping tabs on phone communications. If fast full dictionary speech recognition in any given language, with grid processing and data mining capabilities are being offered commercially, just think what the [insert favorite three-letter-agency here] can do with it.
Just get yourself a Remington 870 or a Mossberg 500 (both 12 gauge), folding stock or just pistol grip to make it more compact, and load it with 2 shells of #6 bird shot and then 2 shells 00 buck. The bird shot won't go through too many walls and is enough to knock someone down close range, and scare 'em long range. If they're particularly nasty, pump 'em full of buck.
Companies do do a great deal of recording...pretty much every call center I've called in to in the past year had the little "this call may be recorded" message playing. Today the price per gig is down so much that they can record pretty much everything they have going on. And with the advances in speech analytics they don't even need a lot of people to listen to the calls...they can have computers do that as well, speech reco is getting better and better. I just read the other day that Callminer released a grid based recognizer, so now call centers don't even need expensive servers anymore, supposedly they can just use the worker bee's desktops when they're idle. I bet we're gonna hear a lot more of "this call may be recorded" in the future. Hell, I may just do it with my personal calls for fun!
"Thanks for calling, this call may be recorded. Everything you say can and will be used against you when I am calling in favors. Please hold for the next available WhamsterHeel."
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What it boils down to is that people really have to start to encrypt their communications. Email, phone, carrier pigeons.
Email encryption is a no brainer nowadays. Even the most novice of users can use Skype. And I guess we could make the pigeons look like African swallows, they might go unnoticed.
But fun aside, the snooping capabilities are getting better and better, especially when it comes to keeping tabs on phone communications. If fast full dictionary speech recognition in any given language, with grid processing and data mining capabilities are being offered commercially, just think what the [insert favorite three-letter-agency here] can do with it.
Just get yourself a Remington 870 or a Mossberg 500 (both 12 gauge), folding stock or just pistol grip to make it more compact, and load it with 2 shells of #6 bird shot and then 2 shells 00 buck. The bird shot won't go through too many walls and is enough to knock someone down close range, and scare 'em long range. If they're particularly nasty, pump 'em full of buck.
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Companies do do a great deal of recording...pretty much every call center I've called in to in the past year had the little "this call may be recorded" message playing. Today the price per gig is down so much that they can record pretty much everything they have going on. And with the advances in speech analytics they don't even need a lot of people to listen to the calls...they can have computers do that as well, speech reco is getting better and better. I just read the other day that Callminer released a grid based recognizer, so now call centers don't even need expensive servers anymore, supposedly they can just use the worker bee's desktops when they're idle. I bet we're gonna hear a lot more of "this call may be recorded" in the future. Hell, I may just do it with my personal calls for fun!
"Thanks for calling, this call may be recorded. Everything you say can and will be used against you when I am calling in favors. Please hold for the next available WhamsterHeel."