Quote Originally Posted by 3 Sheets To The Wind
I hadn't heard about that Rob.

To be honest I think it's BS.. what about responsible adults saying something like "Did you hear about the bombs in some arab country? Bush ought to send some relief over that way." *sirens wailing* "Oh, I'm fucked now"

I don't believe that a machine is listening to every single call and then starting to record when it hears those few key words... ridiculous!
they don't see calls as being "seperate"

think of it as a fishnet in the air.

they scan thousands of conversations at a time, and look for that same frequency/sound pattern. they isolate those sounds, and quarantaine them.

using a telephone is pretty pre-historic already. Even I know how to build a police scanner.