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Talking of the giggle test, millions of audio streams is just the kind of thing this was designed to snack on - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

Regardless, the black box aspect means this can be targeted to high value individuals and could even be limited to their home or mobile networks. Then again, it's somewhat irrelevant since all sysadmins are already legally owned by security services and sworn to secrecy by the current legal frameworks, no cloak and dagger required. And it would be hard to believe that any competent foreign intelligence org hadn't fully infested such juicy targets as google and high value corporate networks long ago.

There's an old rule that you shouldn't write down anything you wouldn't want to hear read out in a court of law. Same goes for online, and now for when you are in the vicinity of a mobile device.



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