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I also drive around with a Verizon LTE hotspot because Verizon\u2019s turned on LTE here which is 20 megabytes down. So I don\u2019t use AT&T\u2019s 4G, I don\u2019t use cellular when I\u2019m driving around. I use Wi-Fi. This hotspot from Verizon converts the LTE signal to Wi-Fi and that\u2019s how I connect the iPhone. So my system is my phone paired with the car\u2019s Bluetooth provided by the manufacturer, and it is also connected via Wi-Fi to a Verizon LTE hotspot. Now, the way Apple iPhone dictation works is you hit the microphone button on your keyboard, and that immediately establishes an online connection with Apple servers somewhere.<\/p>\n
The dictation does not occur, the translation does not occur in the phone. What you say is transmitted at whatever connection speed you\u2019re using — 3G, 4G, or Wi-Fi — to Apple servers wherever they are. The speech is then transcribed to text by a company called Nuance, which makes Dragon Dictation, and that\u2019s the voice-to-text aspect of Siri in the iPhone. So you say, “Testing one, two, three” and hit the microphone button. Apple\u2019s servers then transcribe it and send it back to you, and it displays on your screen. This happens fast if you have a fast connection. That\u2019s why I use the LTE hotspot. This happens within a second and a half. What I\u2019ve said shows back up on my iPhone or iPad a second and a half after I say it.<\/p>\n
Now, the way my Bluetooth setup in the car works is — if I\u2019m listening to the radio, for example — the moment I hit the microphone on the iPhone, the radio is muted, because a phone call is being made, essentially. The phone system via Bluetooth is used to send my voice transcription out to Apple and back. When it comes back and the connection is finished, then the audio from the radio resumes. Up until today, it worked flawlessly. The dictation, sometimes it\u2019s a 100% accurate, sometimes 95%. It\u2019s always close enough to just go ahead and hit the send button, except sometimes it doesn\u2019t get proper names right. Today after the hotspot established its connection with the iPhone and I got Wi-Fi going and everything\u2019s hunky-dory.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m maybe a quarter of a mile from home on the way in to work, I attempt dictation, and nothing happens. I hit the microphone button and I get the three beeps and no connection. It\u2019s not working. So I say, “Ah, damn it, the system\u2019s down. Something\u2019s wrong with the servers,” but I keep trying. The third attempt… I was trying to respond to some stuff Kathryn had sent me. She needed an answer on some stuff. So I said whatever it was my answer was the third time, and what came back to me? This is what you\u2019re not gonna believe. What showed up on my iPhone was “Obama\u2019s minions are taking over and there\u2019s nothing you can do about it,” and I hadn\u2019t said anything like that!<\/p>\n
The audio on the radio did not un-mute. The audio on the radio never came back. The whole system was discombobulated. So I switched from satellite to AM just to see if there was something wrong with the satellite signal, and AM came in fine. So I tried it again. I deleted that. I did not save that. I thought, “Man, something\u2019s really not right.” So I responded to Kathryn again. I don\u2019t even remember what it was saying. I was answering questions about some stuff we\u2019ve got going on this weekend. I said it again, the same thing I\u2019d said the first time.<\/p>\n
What came back to me the second time was totally unrelated to anything I had said. It was talking about wind power and Obama and, “You don\u2019t have a chance.” I am not making this up. And I said to myself, “You know, somebody\u2019s hacked Apple\u2019s servers. I\u2019m gonna get in there.” I said, “I can\u2019t wait to get to work and fire up some of these Apple blogs because I\u2019ll bet you this has been going on all morning and I\u2019ll betcha it\u2019s a big story that Apple\u2019s servers have been hacked.” So I tried it again. The third thing which came back had nothing to do with politics.<\/p>\n
It had nothing to do with Obama, but it was not anything close to what I had said. Then I started doing, “Testing one, two, three,” and I would get back four sentences that did not have “testing” or “one, two, three” in them. So, as I say, I didn\u2019t save any of these. I wasn\u2019t thinking. I was so curious. I didn\u2019t send them. It didn\u2019t make any sense. If I would have sent these things to Kathryn, she would have thought I\u2019m losing my mind even more than I already have. (interruption) Wait, I\u2019m not through with the story! So I get here. This happens two more times. I get here, the first thing I do when I get into the studio on our network system is start dictating, and it\u2019s flawless. It\u2019s perfect.<\/p>\n
It was only in my car that this happened. It was only with my Verizon LTE hotspot and my Bluetooth. I got in here and I used our Wi-Fi network, and dictation worked perfectly. It\u2019s been working perfectly all morning. It was only in the car. I got so busy, I didn\u2019t have a chance to go back out to the car and try it again. I\u2019ll try it later when I leave. So I sent this story. I typed this story I just told you and I sent it to a bunch of computer people. I said, “What could possibly explain this?” And the answers I got back ranged from, “You\u2019ve been hacked,” to, “Somebody got into your car,” to, “Somebody\u2019s tampered with the Bluetooth module.”<\/p>\n
It was, “Somebody\u2019s done something. They\u2019re sending you a message that they can do it,” or, “Your Bluetooth module is so totally defective that you need a new one,” or, “There\u2019s something wrong with the LTE hotspot.” There was no answer that was satisfactory. This has never happened. But that first message that came back was: “Obama\u2019s minions are taking over.” As I say, I can\u2019t prove this, because I didn\u2019t keep the transcriptions. I deleted them. I don\u2019t even know if I actually deleted them. I just didn\u2019t send them. (They are not on the phone. I went and looked.) So when I finish here this afternoon and am on the way out, I\u2019m gonna try this again.<\/p>\n
I haven\u2019t changed any circumstances. I\u2019m not charging the hotspot. I\u2019m not gonna switch out the Bluetooth unit. I\u2019m not gonna change. What I might do turn is off the hotspot if it happens again or just use the AT&T 4G and see if it happens that way. But to understand this again: When you use dictation on your iPhone or iPad, the phone is not doing anything. What you get is transmitted to Apple\u2019s servers and then there\u2019s software on those servers made by Nuance, which does the voice translation to text. And that gets sent back to your phone, in whatever application you\u2019re using: E-mail, message. Whatever has a keyboard, you can use dictation. So what do you think of that, Snerdley? Who could possibly explain this?<\/p>\n
Could it be that somebody at Apple can ID my phone, knows when I\u2019m voice transcribing and can send something back? Could that possibly be? Who knows? I have no idea. I am not a power user. In the sense… I mean, I\u2019m probably a consumer power user, but I\u2019m not a power user in terms of people that can use a terminal, write code, and all that kind of stuff. I haven\u2019t gotten into it that much. I don\u2019t have any other theories, but I sent this off to two people who might, and none of them could believe it but they then started trying to explain it to me what various things could exist to explain this. But it was the first two that came back that specifically mentioned Obama.<\/p>\n
So there\u2019s that. (interruption) The Martins didn\u2019t hack anybody! Snerdley just asked me… That grandfather and grandmother couple, they were driving around in I think either Tampa or Jacksonville somewhere. And like everybody, they had a cell phone radio in their Cadillac. They were able to monitor cell phone calls. Like a police scanner, theirs monitored cell signals and frequencies, and they overheard Newt having a conversation with John Boehner back in the nineties. And this grand-couple, big Democrat activists, thought that they were in on history. And they recorded it, too! They had a recorder in their car along with the cell phone radio in their car, and they recorded it. And they sent it to the New York Times, who published it. But they didn\u2019t hack anything.<\/p>\n
They just had a radio that was able to monitor those frequencies. Well, I know that was years ago. It was like 20 years ago when that happened, and they\u2019ve upgraded. But the first thing I thought of was somebody hacked Apple\u2019s servers. Because it\u2019s impossible for dictate — for example, if you have Dragon dictate on your iPhone or your iPad, the hardware, software inside the phone is not doing the voice-to-text translation. That\u2019s happening off-site via servers and comes back to your phone via the network. ID\u2019d by phone number, e-mail address, with the iMessage program you can set up five different e-mail addresses that people can reach you on. But in this case it would be IP, because this is Wi-Fi. This could be a combination phone number and IP address. Who knows. As I say, I\u2019m not that much of a power user to be able to explain that, but this didn\u2019t happen yesterday when I parked the car in the garage. The only thing that happened to the car yesterday was it got washed, at home. <\/p>\n
Now, I was in the library most of the night working. Somebody coulda come in, got the car, drove it somewhere, I would never know. The garage is about a half mile from my library. Just kidding. But I didn\u2019t check the security camera, so I don\u2019t know if anything happened to the car. I don\u2019t know if it left the garage and came back, I don\u2019t know. I have no clue. And of course, if I start asking, I know the answer I\u2019m going to get. No, no, didn\u2019t touch it. But the most common suggestion I got from the people I sent it to was, “You\u2019ve got a Bluetooth problem here. There\u2019s something wrong with Bluetooth.” That may be, but for Obama and his minions to end up in a translated voice-to-text message when I didn\u2019t say Obama, I didn\u2019t say minions, I didn\u2019t say anything about any of that, the dictation\u2019s never been that far off. I don\u2019t take super-secret phone calls. That\u2019s the point. This wasn\u2019t super-secret. It was just to Kathryn. It happens all the time. <\/p>\n
If it happens this afternoon I\u2019m gonna keep whatever it throws back at me. I won\u2019t be able to prove what I say, you know, that\u2019s lost to the ether, but I will be able to show whatever it thinks I said in terms of the translation that comes back.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Charlie in New York. Hi, Charlie. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. I called because I was listening to your problem earlier about your car and your Bluetooth. There\u2019s one key that I think you\u2019re not looking at correctly. If you take the car, take a piece of paper and put your car on it, draw a circle around your car, draw another circle around that circle, and that circle\u2019s about, let\u2019s just say, 100 feet. Inside of that second circle, you can have Wi-Fi. I don\u2019t care how you\u2019re doing it, \u2019cause I don\u2019t understand your configuration that much, but inside that circle you might be able to use Wi-Fi. Once you break out of that second circle, you go to the cellular network or the satellite network or whatever it is, you are no longer capable of using Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, no, you didn\u2019t understand my explanation of my setup. There is no circle, and I didn\u2019t leave the Wi-Fi. I\u2019m receiving a cell phone signal that\u2019s being converted to Wi-Fi by my Verizon LTE hot spot, which I\u2019ve been doing for a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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