This new generation of -user-friendly spy-phone software has become widely available in the last year—and it confers stunning powers. The latest programs can silently turn on handset microphones even when no call is being made, allowing a spy to listen to voices in a room halfway around the world. Targets are none the wiser: neither call logs nor phone bills show records of the secretly transmitted data.
More than 200 companies sell spy-phone software online, at prices as low as $50 (a few programs cost more than $300). Vendors are loath to release sales figures. But some experts—private investigators and consultants in counter-wiretapping, computer-security software and telecommunications market research—claim that a surprising number of people carry a mobile that has been compromised, usually by a spouse, lover, parent or co-worker. Many employees, experts say, hope to discover a supervisor's dishonest dealings and tip off the top boss anonymously. Max Maiellaro, head of Agata Christie Investigation, a private-investigation firm in Milan, estimates that 3 percent of mobiles in France and Germany are tapped, and about 5 percent or so in Greece, Italy, Romania and Spain. James Atkinson, a spy-phone expert at Granite Island Group, a security consultancy in Gloucester, Massachusetts, puts the number of tapped phones in the U.S. at 3 percent. (These approximations do not take into account government wiretapping.) Even if these numbers are inflated, clearly many otherwise law-abiding citizens are willing to break wiretapping laws.
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- ClipsFC
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Come one come all, into 1984...
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- jeffissleeping
- 5 months ago
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This is very scary indeed.
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- grungem0nkey
- 5 months ago
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this is nothing new. Ways to eavesdrop through other folks cellphones have been around for a LONG time. For example, someone could remotely activate your phone, and put it into diagnostic mode (which would activate the receiver, in effect listening to everything going on around it)
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- FrankyZemo
- 5 months ago
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@dailysource on twitter says "SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: The spy in your hand. (Newsweek) Story:"
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- twitterbot
- 5 months ago
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You know - the more of the "new technology" you use, the less YOU there is.
Just think, if you turned the tv off, - stopped all the advertising pouring into your mind, all the scenes painted for you - from sites like this one, even - just turned it all off, you might do some fantastic new things - that YOU thought up! -
I don't see why you would want to,seriously all people talk about on the phone is gossip O.o or what they did last night.
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How do you know it's not encrypted on there already, you haven't said anything bad about the Government lately have you? HA HA
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I feel bad for anyone spying on me, they will be very bored indeed.
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- MirrorLake
- 5 months ago
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Well then it's a good thing I hate talking on the phone in the first place.
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- haterstotheleft
- 5 months ago
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They are brilliant. Digital sound is so clear.
Catalogue at link.
BEWARE of the spy in your home....TELEVISION SET.
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- Highr0ller
- 5 months ago
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Ultimate Bluetooth Mobile Phone Spy
was $149.95
NOW $69.95-
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- Highr0ller
- 5 months ago
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Even the electrical outlets have a connection to spying, if you think you can get away with anything subversive these days your kidding yourself. True change comes in sheer numbers, there are not enough jails for everybody.
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- kennymotown
- 5 months ago
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Great. I hope if someone spies on me they like my singing in the car voice!
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- shroomfairy
- 5 months ago
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Oh noes! They're going to discover that I chat with my mom about what's for dinner! RUUUUUUNNNN!!!
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@godfried on twitter says "hoe veilig is je mobiele telefoon: of hoe makkelijk is 't af te luisteren ..."
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- twitterbot
- 5 months ago
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I really not sure why we're having this talk because they're listening and watching everything that you done for a long time. Fort Huachuca Az. is the CIA listening post for N. America. Everything you do is monitored there and recorded in a big data base.
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I try not to carry or use my cell phone very much, because they listen to every signal through the transmitters.
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Um... I have a password on my phone... So problem solved?
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Maybe this is cynical of me, but I have rather assumed that my cell phone conversations weren't private anyway. Even without this software it is relatively easy to listen in.
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This is also a way to protect yourself. I would like the option to record calls I make.
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- MikefromhisG1
- 5 months ago
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Holly shit! I didn't mean any of those things I said.
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- Fourfingaz
- 5 months ago
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I always feel like, someone is watching meeeeeeeeee
LMFAO-
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- Fourfingaz
- 5 months ago
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If you need to speak in confidence use the pay phone.
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- 23485768934756
- 5 months ago
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Yeah, maybe the NSA could take money for access to their recordings of us all - an existing and readily available information cloud.
And taking money could be sold as a tax reducer!In providing such a service, at least they'd be able to show something for what they've been doing.
And after all, don't we already own it?
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when someone can transmit information or voice from my cellphone and my cellphone network supplier can't detect the transmission, i don't think the real problem is the guys writing the hacking sofware, it's the morons at the phone company whose sofware isn't worth shit.
unless they're making money on what's a pretty clear breach of lots of privacy laws...
you can bitch about it to eachother or research and sue.
me? i rarely use my cell, and keep it off most of the time. let 'em try to turn mine on remotely... bonne chance!
