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| Something noticed in current CSPAN NSA Hearing - a Meta-data hack |
| 2013-06-21 |
| While explaining how they did meta-data connection maps based on phone connections and internet ones a I noticed a major nit that could have negative impacts on all of us. They make connect-the-dot meta-maps of incoming and outgoing calls email and such. But, I have been perplexed by over a decade by the number of phone calls where the caller hangs up the instant you answer. This implies that terror/spy types could have machines making lots of calls just to create noise in the meta-maps made of them, hiding their communications in the noise. On the obverse side of this those of us who get a call become "people under suspicion". For me becoming "under suspicion" due to spam calls is chilling. Taking it further if the folks are AQ one could expect them add folks like Rantburgers to their spam call list just to put them under a pall. The question nobody posed to the NSA guy was are unanswered calls in the meta-maps? This could put you under suspicion even if you screen all calls with CallerID. Then the email issue. How much of that SPAM email is spys and terrorist generating digital noise and putting us under suspicion? |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #4 Come to think of it.. a good reason to outlaw telemarketing is that it's a perfect cover for a terror or criminal coordinator. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2013-06-21 21:09 |
| #3 Or have the terrorist be a telemarketer. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2013-06-21 21:06 |
| #2 The legal work-around for monitoring is pretty simple. Just have someone in an overseas location [you name the country] dial the target up from time to time. Bingo! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-06-21 20:15 |
| #1 Those are automatic dialing machines that dial calls based on statistical algorithms for call centers. For example, maybe it determines that an operator in the call center comes free every 14 seconds and only one half of calls are answered so it needs to dial 2 calls every 14 seconds to keep operators busy talking and not filing their nails. Normally when you answer, your call would be switched to an available operator. In this cased, the system must have "over-dialed" and there was no operator available so the system hung up on you when you answered. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2013-06-21 20:04 |