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| How To Know If Your Cell Phone Has Surveillance by Derealme(m): 2:04pm On Nov 17, 2013 |
By Noel Lawrence, an eHow Contributing Writer Caution: your cell phone may be spying on you. Before the cellular age, phone taps were fairly easy to detect. Faint yet audible clicks on your receiver were a dead giveaway that someone was listening in to your conversation. Today, however, there is no definitive way to detect, or prevent, government agencies from spying on your calls. On cellular networks, all conversations may be accessed and recorded by the phone company if law enforcement or a federal agency supplies a proper warrant. Or a criminal organization may be able to hack their way into your smart phone. Fortunately, several measures will minimize the risk of electronic eavesdropping. Difficulty: Moderate Things You'll Need: Pay-as-you-go SIM card Professional mobile phone repairman Instructions 1. Search your mobile phone for physical bugs. A tiny recording device placed inside your cell will pick up all of your conversations, whether you are speaking on the phone or even if it is turned off. Take your phone to a cellular repair shop and have a professional dismantle it to locate potential bugs. Do not attempt to do this yourself. You may have trouble with reassembling the device or may even break it. 2. Keep your cell phone turned off when not in use. Besides recording conversations, your phone may also be used as a way of pinpointing your geographic location through a technique known as "triangulation." By using your cell carrier's network, a government agency can use your phone as a virtual GPS device and track all of your movements. However, do not assume that turning off your phone will prevent audio surveillance. In a recent investigation of the Genovese crime family in New York City, the U.S. Justice Department was able to remotely activate the microphone of a Nextel cell phone and record conversations even when the phone appeared to be switched off. 3. Change your SIM card on a regular basis. The Subscriber Identity Module or SIM is a removable card that contains a unique code for identifying the subscriber of a mobile phone. If potential eavesdroppers don't know your SIM, they won't have any idea which cellular account to tap. Pay-as-you-go SIM cards cost as little as $10 and can be replaced as often as needed. These cards will not associate your phone with a specific name and address, making it even harder for spies to keep up with you. 4. Consider alternative methods of communication. For example, Skype uses a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) that is difficult to monitor (assuming you are using it from someone else's computer so your IP address can't be identified). Or nothing beats a face-to- face conversation, assuming you have already inspected the meeting place for bugs. |
| Re: How To Know If Your Cell Phone Has Surveillance by fr3do(m): 2:23pm On Nov 17, 2013 |
If I go through this rigour to avoid eavesdropping,I must really have something to hide. |
| Re: How To Know If Your Cell Phone Has Surveillance by tpia5: 4:41am On Jan 05, 2014 |
its a privacy issue, but virtually impossible to surmount unless one withdraws from technology completely. |
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