Tap tap tap....is this Microphone on?

The irony is......now we all carry the latest and great mobile phones and not only do we pay for the rights to carry around  these NSA microphonesbut even after Snowden told us we were all being monitored....we still cant put them down.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-summer-i--froze-in-the-cold-war-20170118-gttje4.html