Is any of this supposed to be real?
At the end of the film the woman narrator says something about back in 1999 some Times journalists got hold of evidence that the NSA were using some type of advanced surrvailence technology.
yes, echelon is real
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Echelon.jpg
yes, you can listen to cellphone even when its not answering/dialing out
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-150467.html