• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    If they were sending that much audio back, people would see the traffic. You could record it and send it at a different time, but the traffic would exist somewhere. People have looked and failed to find any evidence of such traffic.

    It’s something that could happen on device in the nearish future if there’s not anything now, but it would probably still be hard to hide.

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      2 months ago

      People have looked and failed to find any evidence of such traffic

      Source? I would like to read about that

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        2 months ago

        Sorry, it’s been long enough and I haven’t saved any of the links, and the keywords are polluted as hell with garbage results. I can’t find anything specific.

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        2 months ago

        You probably won’t find a source about something not happening.

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          2 months ago

          It’s almost like they were asking about sources for people looking or something.

          If you’re not going to contribute, why are you wasting people’s time?

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      2 months ago

      Thanks for the info! I guess that’s ultimately what I’m looking for more about: how much do we know about cellular traffic? Obviously with encryption we can’t just directly read cell signals to find out what’s being sent, so do people just record the volume of data being sent in individual packets and make educated guesses?

      It seems plausible to run a simple(non-AI) algorithm to isolate probable conversations and send stripped and compressed audio chunks along with normal data. I assume that’s still probably too hard to hide, but if anyone out there knows of someone that’s looked for this stuff, I’d love to check it out.