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Easy Ways to Tell if Your Cell Phone is Bugged
BY WARREN RIDDLE (RSS FEED) — MAY 26TH 2009 AT 7:30AM
If you’ve got a lot of enemies (or watch too many spy movies), you’ve probably noticed those online ads for cell phone bugging software and thought: “Hey, I wonder if my phone is bugged?” Fortunately, the news crew at Fox 26 in Houston shares your paranoia: it recently tested out some cellular spyware to figure out if your ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend is listening in.
After dropping $250 for the software on the Internet, the crew had it up and running on a test phone in 10 minutes. As you can imagine, the spyware enabled call- and text-monitoring, gave access to the phone’s contact list, and kept extensive logs of call times and duration. The coolest function let the testers tap into the test phone from a remote location and activate its microphone, allowing them to listen in even with the phone on standby and concealed in a pocket.
As for figuring out if your own phone is bugged, the Fox team says to watch out for significant, unexplained drops in battery power or random screen flashes. Strange billing activity and text messages with random numbers and symbols could also be signs of a bugging. To be safe, you should lock your phone with a password, and if you want to go super clandestine, pop out your phone’s battery when you go meet that guy with the briefcase chained to his wrist. [From: Fox 26]
WHY ARE THE CELL PHONE COMPANIES DOING NOTHING TO PREVENT THIS TYPE OF INTRUSION????
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