Heard on the radio this morning that snowy said the NSA are tapping your phones when they are off

[dballance]

31. Right. Just like they're not watching you on your camera when it is "off." Oh, but they are.

You are so wrong. Phones that are powered "off" still have a battery in them servicing functions like keeping track of time. Keeping track of the GPS of your phone is also rather common when a device is "off." Off doesn't quite mean today what it used to mean.

Perhaps you should disclose your professional "title" in comparison with the "low-level DBA" if you wish to actually make a point based on facts and not your opinion and just being generally disparaging to DBAs.

Perhaps you have some extensive background in telecom on the back end. You have not provided your credentials that make you an expert on cellular. Probably because you used all the acronyms you know in your rant and were out of knowledge beyond those. I'm not easily fooled by technical talk.

"How does the NSA get around SRTP encapsulated in a private MPLS VPN?" Wow, nice use of terms that almost no one can understand in your rant where you try to look educated and professional. If you really cared about making your argument convincing you would not have resorted to industry terms no one outside the industry can understand. You would have presented facts in the most understandable way. How does the NSA get around encryption? I think given the recent articles on the HeartBleed weaknesses in OpenSSL are a pretty good guide to how the NSA, and more concering others, can exploit weaknesses in supposedly secure systems.

It disgusts me that people use acronyms that no one can understand in their arguments in support of a position in order to look "smart" or "superior." TALK to PEOPLE if you want to convince them of something.