speaking of which what's the worse crime you guys ever commited and never got caught? Any of you did some crazy shit like smuggle coke across the border for a few thousand greens?
"There are no pacts between lion and men."
-Achilles, Troy
Radio astronomers routinely monitor millions of frequencies simultaneously for patterns...and that is a serious hardware capability. The idea that there is one localized system that is monitoring (possibly) billions of daily mobile/cellular conversations, wireless internet/emails, etc is a little far fetched. Even if the system was only looking for the word "terrorist" that's a lot of data to filter through.