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May 5, 2008 by JR Raphael |
It connects you to the world, but your cell phone could also be giving anyone from your boss to your wife a window into your every move. The same technology that lets you stay in touch on-the-go can now let others tap into your private world — without you ever even suspecting something is awry.
The new generation
Long gone are the days of simple wiretapping, when the worst your phone could do was let someone listen in to your conversations. The new generation of cell phone spying tools provides a lot more power.
Eavesdropping is easy. All it takes is a two-minute software install and someone can record your calls and monitor your text messages. They can even set up systems to be automatically alerted when you dial a certain number, then instantly patched into your conversation. Anyone who can perform a basic internet search can find the tools and figure out how to do it in no time.
But the scarier stuff is what your phone can do when you aren’t even using it. Let’s start with your location.
Simple surveillance
You don’t have to plant a CIA-style bug to conduct surveillance any more. A service called World Tracker lets you use data from cell phone towers and GPS systems to pinpoint anyone’s exact whereabouts, any time — as long as they’ve got their phone on them.
All you have to do is log on to the web site and enter the target phone number. The site sends a single text message to the phone that requires one response for confirmation. Once the response is sent, you are locked in to their location and can track them step-by-step. The response is only required the first time the phone is contacted, so you can imagine how easily it could be handled without the phone’s owner even knowing.
Once connected, the service shows you the exact location of the phone by the minute, conveniently pinpointed on a Google Map. So far, the service is only available in the UK, but the company has indicated plans to expand its service to other countries soon.
Advanced eavesdropping
So you’ve figured out where someone is, but now you want to know what they’re actually doing. Turns out you can listen in, even if they aren’t talking on their phone.
Dozens of programs are available that’ll turn any cell phone into a high-tech, long-range listening device. And the scariest part? They run virtually undetectable to the average eye.
Take, for example, Flexispy. The service promises to let you “catch cheating wives or cheating husbands” and even “bug meeting rooms.” Its tools use a phone’s microphone to let you hear essentially any conversations within earshot. Once the program is installed, all you have to do is dial a number to tap into the phone’s mic and hear everything going on. The phone won’t even ring, and its owner will have no idea you are virtually there at his side.
Legal loopholes
You might be asking how this could possibly be legal. Turns out, it isn’t - at least, not in the ways we just described. Much like those fancy smoking devices designed “for tobacco use only,” the software itself gets by because of a disclaimer saying it doesn’t endorse any illegal use.
I did a little digging with our friends from Flexispy. You won’t find it on the flashy front page, but buried a bit further in the site, the company says you’re fine to use their program only “on a phone that you own, for protecting your children,” or for purposes like “archiving data.” It’s a bit of a contrast from the bold suggestions of “uncover[ing] employee espionage,” “catch[ing] cheating husbands,” and “bug[ging] meeting rooms” that fill the company’s materials. After a little more explanation, their answer as to the legality of the service ends with a broad statement: “Please consult a qualified lawyer in your country for the correct answer to this question.”
Let me make it easier for you: Once you get into listening in to private conversations without either party’s consent, you’re treading rough water that could sweep you straight into jail. Whether it’s an employee or a spouse on the receiving end of your mission, neither federal nor state privacy laws take violations lightly in America. Getting caught could cost you several years behind bars, among other serious penalties.
Detecting and protecting
Finding spyware on your phone isn’t easy. There are dozens of bug detectors available from surveillance companies, but the only true fix is taking your phone to your provider and having them wipe it out altogether. That will restore the factory settings and clear out any hidden software that’s running on your phone.
Security experts say there may be some subtle signs your phone is invaded:
- You seem to have trouble shutting it off, or it stays lit up after you’ve powered down.
- The phone sometimes lights up when you aren’t making or receiving a call, or using any other function.
- You regularly hear odd background noises or clicks when you’re on the phone.
Unfortunately, there isn’t much you can do to safeguard your cell just yet. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time until we see McAfee-style programs to firewall your phone and keep intruders out. For now, though, the only sure-fire form of protection is to keep a close guard on your phone. Don’t accept Bluetooth connections unless you know what they are. Most important, make sure no one has access to install something when you aren’t watching. Otherwise, they may soon be watching you when you least expect it.
By JR Raphael
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
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Your cell phones have an RFID chip and can be used as a GPS tracking device to locate you anywhere in the world. That’s what they don’t want you to know. To stop this completely and cheaply, buy a piece of EMF shielding and wrap your cell phone, credit cards, driver’s license, ID cards and wallet — anything with an RFID chip. You’ll completely foil the tracking. They can’t track you.
All techno-tracking comes to a halt for about $6.00.
Yes, genius, let’s wrap our cell phones in EMF shielding, that *will* stop it from being tracked… And receiving any calls, text messages, making or sending either… Genius.
Also, that EMF shielding will most likely keep you from receiving phone calls.
“Is it “David Gerardo” or “David Geraldo”? Looks like the Q-waves being sent from CIA headquarters are working. That, or maybe they’ve found a way to send messages through your bong, pal.”
My name is David Gerardo, and you gave yourself away by asking me that very detailed question “Pal”. I did actually have to debug their interface protocol, and yes I can still detect their monitoring despite the me helping them monitor me better :-). I have nothing to hide, that is why I helped them. That still doesn’t take away from the fact that series of laws have been broken by the fact that I am being monitored in this way. Q-waves, Standing waves or Horizontal I have found a way to stop Illegal monitoring and it can be proven scientifically. My question is…why would an American Patriot who put his “butt” on the line for our Country be treated this way? What would you do if you were being harrassed by unknown agencies (and yes I count at the very least 4)where IFF (identification friend or foe)is non-existant? I live in a foriegn country and travel around the World……where I have also had strange encounters. It is scary when our government can not even detect other monitoring methods and my family and I are being used as walking EM labs. Walk a mile in my shoes……and see if you can still go to work everyday, try and take care of your family and stay sane at the same time!
I bet your tinfoil hat and screendoor lined home won’t stop the beta waves from the SDI satellites under control of Homeland Security. In a recent photo of Conci Rice, I could see the small tracking box she uses to keep tabs on both you and the rest of your family.
Why is it that paranoid dolts who believe the government can scan their brains with particle wave guns love to rant about it on the internet where their IP address can be traced to their home?
Take your meds. If your’re not on meds, get on them.
2008-05-12 09:32:09
David Gerardo Hanysz,
I bet your tinfoil hat and screendoor lined home won’t stop the beta waves from the SDI satellites under control of Homeland Security. In a recent photo of Conci Rice, I could see the small tracking box she uses to keep tabs on both you and the rest of your family.
Why is it that paranoid dolts who believe the government can scan their brains with particle wave guns love to rant about it on the internet where their IP address can be traced to their home?
Take your meds. If your’re not on meds, get on them.”
Let me put it this way, I know my I.P. address is known to whomever really want to find out what it is (There is no such thing as computer or I.T. Security) and I use my real name BECAUSE I have nothing to hide. I will undergo any type of drug induced, electronically monitored hypnosis initiated truth-analyzing test they have, but it has to include the Y…..(Why are you accusing me of whatever it may be,and how did you get that information?}. If you would have read my article thoroughly, then you know Y I won’t take their Med’s. (I have been given enough Med’s to last a lifetime and some facilitate the EM interfacing).
These frequencies are measurable, just need to know which range is being used, autos can for them, auto-resonate the source and bingo, we’ve fixed the problem of illegal monitoring. If our home could switch from a double layered faraday shield to a antenna (outside layer) \ faraday shield {inside layer) using the right control circuits, parameters and hardware(open\closed relais for example), we could ensure that our private lives stay private.
Apply this algorithm to all of your daily lives, to every single letter of the alphabets and numbers in your respective languages (Operating systems) while you are feeling, thinking, speaking, reacting, acting, Surviving upon, etc., correlated to the first language at the time and place (Location, location , location for the business minded )that you are speak of IT, (Neon Signs in the desert).
Then you will be able to begin to interface with the multi-universes,((because it is an Electro Magnetic, Plasma conductive Universe, which is multiplied (by?), 4D, which can equal to Y, (which is also relative by the way)).
REM (”Just for starters. up-starts AND,OR,NOT,AND NOR Inititial public offerings?).
et whatever other criteria you want to add to this eQuation. What is your
processing capability? Enter user name and password to access the DGH operating system AND don’t forget your HU 8 (human energy)portion, quotient, etc., etc., et al. (Whew….;-), Nuff written for now and I will await your reply.
[...] your phone: its ability to keep your family safer. We’ve seen how cell phones can be used to let other people spy on you. This trick, though, turns the tables and lets you watch”
I fully understand the safety aspect and the intended
purpose of the monitoring however, I have a problem with this when my private sex life between my wife and I becomes “the best thing on T.V” and Radio used as a Psychological, Physiological EM warfare weapon against my Family, Children, Wives and myself. It can be used to terrorize, torment, blackmail, threaten and drive people literally insane. (”" Only, and, or, not, nand, nor, If”"” we can not do reality checks ”
This has got to be one of the most powerful weapons devised yet.….., Einstein once said that he knew “How” WWI and WWII were fought, he did “not” know “How” WWIII was going to be fought…. but he KNEW that WW IV would be fought with sticks and stones.
That is pretty much how we are going to end up once they have “gotten” (German for gods) done scrambling our minds with the stuff they keep on trying to “download” into my mind.
IF they can try to do this to me, what would stop them from doing this to ANYONE who “steps out of line and HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHO IS FRIEND OR FOE ?”. Sorry, just had to let that rant out out :-).
Y does free will (Freedom of Thought)have to end? Y does the World have to end like this? Has this happened once already? (Look to ANCIENT Religions and Civilizations for that answer, they are our parents by the way).
If the service provider doesn’t charge you for airtime when someone is eavesdropping on you, then can’t this easily installable software be used to acquire free cellphone service when installed on two or more handsets?
2008-05-17 02:37:54
If someone can hear your conversations from your handset and connect your handset to theirs, will the service provider charge you for airtime used? After all, you are sending your conversation to someone.
If the service provider doesn’t charge you for airtime when someone is eavesdropping on you, then can’t this easily installable software be used to acquire free cellphone service when installed on two or more handsets?”.
Come on people. let’s not be so naive. I will take this one step further…. Elephants, the “Current” largest land Mammals on Earth communicate via Elf (Extremely low frequencies, Do you see the Metaphysical connection there?),:
Extremely low frequency (ELF) is the US Navy and Soviet/Russian Navy to communicate with submerged submarines used the band of radio frequencies from 3 to 30 Hz. ELF.
Explanation
Because of the electrical conductivity of salt water, submarines are shielded from most electromagnetic communications. Signals in the ELF frequency range, however, can penetrate much deeper. Two factors limit the usefulness of ELF communications channels; the low data transmission rate of a few characters per minute, and to a lesser extent the one-way nature due to the impracticality of installing a huge transmitter on a submarine. Generally ELF signals were used to order a submarine to rise to a shallow depth where it could receive “some other form” of communication.
The Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) is the frequency range between 300 hertz and 3 kilohertz. Many types of waves in the ULF frequency band can be observed in the “magnetosphere” and on the ground. These waves represent important physical processes in the near-Earth plasma environment. The speed of the ULF waves is often associated with the Alfven velocity that depends on the ambient magnetic field and plasma mass density.
This band is used for communications in mines, as it can penetrate the earth. [1]
Earthquakes
Some monitoring stations have reported that a spike sometimes precedes earthquakes in ULF activity. A remarkable example of this occurred before the Loma Prieta Earthquake in California in 1989. Researchers are attempting to learn more about this correlation to find out whether this method can be used as part of an early warning system for earthquakes.
Earth Mode Communications
ULF has been used by the military for secure communications through the ground. NATO AGARD publications from the 1960s detailed many such systems, although one suspects the contents of the published papers left a lot unsaid about what actually was developed secretly for defense purposes. Communications through the ground using conduction fields is known as “Earth Mode” communications and was first used in WWI. Radio amateurs and electronics hobbyists have used this mode for limited range communications using audio power amplifiers connected to widely spaced electrode pairs hammered into the soil (telegraph anyone?). At the receiving end the signal is detected as a weak electric current between two further pairs of electrodes. Using weak signal reception methods with PC based DSP filtering with extremely narrow bandwidths it is possible to receive signals at a range of a few kilometers with a transmitting power of 10-100W and electrode spacing of around 10-50m.
See also
Voice frequency
By changing the electrical conductivity of the air itself, (Air pollution), Worldwide agencies can exploit
These types of air quality Pollution, Corruption by “Airplane Contrails mixed with Barium oxide ” and or Certain manufacturing air quality output levels et al, to increase air conductivity which could result in propagation of certain frequencies that could interface with our metabolisms. That means they don’t need cell phones or television, a satellite will do! The local cell phone, television microwave relay station or radar installations wave output transformed down to a certain area and your body frequency can do the job!
How about creating an Earthquake at the nearest fault line at the push of a button? Where have you all been?
Let’s take this horror scenario to the next step…
ready for this? I DON’T THINK SO! How about resonating the SUN…ANYONE? with the right frequency and a Di-pole antenna, anyone could resonate the sun and cause a Solar Outburst that would devastate the EARTH. See Tesla.
Talk about Sci-fi huh? Probable? you bet! It is only a matter of TIME. Oh shit, gave away another key. Somebody stop me!…. (Mask),:-).
Consider this message as an initial countdown to Armageddon as there is no such thing as Information Technology security, Nuff said!
Imagine if…one day mankind is wired like a cell phone
with no off button and somebody was to make a copy of your “SIM”, that would mean they can see what you see, hear what you hear, feel what you feel and hear what you think 24/7.
That is not the worst thing, Like a GPRS modem, they could download what ever they want to, tell your eyes not to see that oncoming truck on the wrong side of the road that you mysteriously wandered over onto….
or not see an on rushing car whilst crossing the street.
Like Bearden said, it is like going through a paradigm shift to understand what is truly possible with this type of technology, it boggles the mind!
THEY DO NOT NEED A CELL PHONE ANYMORE! That is Sooooo yesteryear’s technology. Did you all happen to know that every living organisim has it’s own frequency? That frequency can be tapped into and used exactly like a cell phone (with some “Modifications”).
Have any of you ever heard of Sir Rife? do a google search for “RIFE FREQUENCIES” and see what you get.
If primative bacteria and Viruses have their own frequencies (and they are primative by the way), Y
wouldn’t mankind? Ahhh jetz ja…eine insel!
Wikipedia’s
Definition of Frequencies:
For cyclical processes, such as rotation, oscillations, or waves, frequency is defined as a number of cycles, or periods, per unit time. In physics and engineering disciplines, such as optics, acoustics, and radio, frequency is usually denoted by a Latin letter f or by a Greek letter ν (nu).
In SI units, the unit of frequency is hertz (Hz), named after the German physicist Heinrich Hertz. For example, 1 Hz means that an event repeats once per second, 2 Hz is twice per second, and so on [1]. This unit was originally called a cycle per second (cps), which is still sometimes used. Heart rate and musical tempo are measured in beats per minute (BPM). Frequency of rotation is often expressed as a number of revolutions per minute (rpm). BPM and rpm values must be divided by 60 to obtain the corresponding value in Hz: thus, 60 BPM translates into 1 Hz.
The period is usually denoted as T, and is the reciprocal of the frequency f:
The SI unit for period is the second (s).
If you have read this article from the beginning, then you know that we transmit frequencies just by thinking.
(Thinking controls hearing, sight, taste, movement, feelings, etc,.). We are walking transmitters! A sensitive satellite could pick out our bodily signatures where ever we are, now that my friends is Big brother old school style. Think about it.
How do you live your day to day life? Are you constantly going around worrying about the g-mans brainwave scanner devices? YES we emit unique frequencies, but they are so low powered that you’d have to be less than one meter away to be able to pick them up.
So please David, as a request from another human transmitter
Throw away tour tinfoil hat. Seriously.
work and support my family, (As long as I can) the difference is in Knowing that it is happening :-). I am not worried about the FEDS; I am worried about us losing our Country. As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Let’s see how LONG we can keep it” when he was referring to our new Republic. The U.S. is not the only Country with this
Technology, I THINK we are behind the curve ball on this one.
I don’t walk around with a tin foil hat. I remember that I have to keep my feet on the ground and live one day at a time lest we be like them. (Reality checks my friend.. my reality zero sum checks :-).