The recording of personal conversations has become one of the most easy tasks of an intelligence agent. Most everyone carries a cell phone these days and they can be found all over places without people thinking much of anything about them. One situation is when people sit down to have dinner... they put their phone down on the table waiting for their next text message or voice call... the thing is, your phone can be doing any number of tasks in the background. I propose the possibility of that phone being a "bug" hidden in plain sight. Phones continually send and receive data from the nearest cell phone tower so a standard TSCM sweep wouldn't work in this situation since
there is already known to be signals coming from your phone, so it would always be transmitting. One would have to have technology to differentiate standard pings from a slightly higher data flow, or the setup could just have it recording and not transmitting, saving the analysis of the audio at a later time and place.

So next time you sit for dinner beware of the innocuous cell phone aka spy device.

Some thoughts to ponder...

Cheers!
-warmfuzzy

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I'll upset you. They can even tell what you're typing by the sounds of your keyboard. By intercepting signals.

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On 15 Aug 2025, roman said the following...

I'll upset you. They can even tell what you're typing by the sounds of your keyboard. By intercepting signals.

There are tiers of exploits, ranging from low investment to some fairly expensive dedicated equipment.

Remember what you see and read about now is already "old stuff."

I was shown a prototype of what eventually became the Stingray class of intercepts/spoofers, but some twenty years prior to when such devices became public knowledge.

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In the media the talk is of focused radar that can "hear" your conversation through the micro movements of the physical device. That of course is an active device, but an emission that your phone can't receive.

Cool tech.

... A .GIF is worth a thousand .TXT.

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And that's the saddest part.

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