On Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 7:39:37 PM PDT, juan <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 23:28:41 +0000 (UTC)
jim bell <[email protected]> wrote:
Ok, fair enough. Actually you can and should send the data not to any phone
company but to some personal computer you control or some people close to you
control (as TDS Zenaan already mentioned)
And the whole system is just some rather simple program running on the
phone. You probably can already get such an 'app' in the nsa-google-store? ;)
> Make sure your backdoored phone doesn't detect your trigger signal and
shuts down =)
> I think a good dosis of skepticism regarding technical solutions is
>warranted, but meh...
Ideally, you'd like to have a minute or two of full-motion video prior to an
attack, and maybe many minutes (an hour?) of full audio, and something like
1-frame/second prior to thatBut 1 megabyte per second is 3.6 gigabytes/hour,
and 3 hours of that, per day on average, is nearly 11 gigabytes/day, or 330
gigabytes/month.
What's the solution? Don't say, "buy one of those unlimited-data plans!".
Those plans are provided, and priced, based on the idea that everybody uses a
now-reasonable amount of data, like 5-10 gigabytes/month. Not 330 gigabytes.
If everybody starts using anywhere near that, the cell company will have to
install 10-100x as much transmission ability, and that costs money. And, they
will charge for that service.
How do we do that? Take advantage of:1. Most people rarely get attacked.2.
A phone co cell site probably has 10-100x more receive capacity than it on
average needs. Such is necessary for peak moments, which will occasionally
exist. Ordinarily, unused capacity is lost, and isn't used for anything
valuable.
Suppose a PBB (personal black box) transmits full-motion video, at maybe 1
megabyte/second, all the time. But by pre-arrangement, the phone co merely
"parks" the data, near the cell site, and does not attempt to transmit it to
"your" computer. (So, it doesn't need to use its own network to transmit this
data.) Most of the time, you don't get attacked, so your PBB eventually tells
the cell company, "We aren't going to need 99% of that data, so dump it and
send maybe 1% on to my computer". The material actually sent might be 1
frame/second, maybe 1/30th of 1 megabyte per second, and all of the audio.
This process will be done continuously.
If you DO get attacked, your PBB may get triggered, and maybe it's be able to
tell the phone co to "send all the data onwards to my computer". But if,
instead, your phone gets instantly smashed, or sealed in aluminum foil, or shot
with a bullet, etc, the cell phone company never gets the "we don't need that
data", message: So the entire amount of data your PBB has collected and sent
to the phone co gets transmitted and then stored on your own computer,
including material that was collected from minutes ago, in full-motion video.
So if somebody is attacked and possibly killed, much of the last hour of his
life is available in great detail, including full-motion video for the last few
minutes, and an hour of good audio, and 1-frame/second video for an hour. I
suspect that there would be very few murders that would not be solved with this
data.
To be sure, this doesn't bring the dead guy back to life. But I expect that in
the large majority of cases, it would deter anybody who was thinking of killing
the person with the PBB.
Jim Bell
