Cell phone eavesdropping

RolandTD20Kdrummer
RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
edited July 2007 in A Moving Train
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/27631
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  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    :eek:
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  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    And this is a surprise to anybody. We used to joke about the government watching you while you were watching t.v.. Anything that uses invisible waves to go from one station to another can be picked up by anybody. And once they can track your car in the guise of onstar, did anybody really think they wouldn't have any such device in a cell phone. Useless as they really are.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    even flow? wrote:
    And this is a surprise to anybody. We used to joke about the government watching you while you were watching t.v.. Anything that uses invisible waves to go from one station to another can be picked up by anybody. And once they can track your car in the guise of onstar, did anybody really think they wouldn't have any such device in a cell phone. Useless as they really are.

    i dont have a car to track. nor a cell phone to eavesdrop on. though i do have one of those tv thingys. :)
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  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    catefrances wrote:
    i dont have a car to track. nor a cell phone to eavesdrop on. though i do have one of those tv thingys. :)
    and apparently an internet connection....
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    don't gimme no wrote:
    and apparently an internet connection....

    yes... apparently. though not in my name. :D
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    take a good look
    this could be the day
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  • Bwalker545
    Bwalker545 Posts: 162
    Do any of your friends have cell phones? Just cause you dont have one doesnt mean you cant be heard on one...
    "Almost unconsciously he traced with his finger in the dust on the table: 2+2=5" 1984
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Magus wrote:
    Do any of your friends have cell phones? Just cause you dont have one doesnt mean you cant be heard on one...

    i tend not to call people on their cells. i find them intrusive. :)
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    take a good look
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  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    Just in case they're listening, I've now made it a nightly ritual to tell my phone to fuck off just before bedtime.
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    " An article in the Financial Times last year said mobile providers can "remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call"

    http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6140191.html

    Nextel and Samsung handsets and the Motorola Razr are especially vulnerable to software downloads that activate their microphones, said James Atkinson, a counter-surveillance consultant who has worked closely with government agencies. "They can be remotely accessed and made to transmit room audio all the time," he said. "You can do that without having physical access to the phone."

    "Security-conscious corporate executives routinely remove the batteries from their cell phones, he added.

    A 2003 lawsuit revealed that the FBI was able to surreptitiously turn on the built-in microphones in automotive systems like General Motors' OnStar to snoop on passengers' conversations.

    When FBI agents remotely activated the system and were listening in, passengers in the vehicle could not tell that their conversations were being monitored. "
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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