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Privacy Infringement - Communication Hazzard
Posted by BikiniHotline • 4/18/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: cell phone privacy, cell phone tapping, cell phones, cellular phones, flexispy, mobile spy, remote cell phone tapping, remote tapping, roving bug, spy phone
Isn't it nice that we have the technology to have communication on the go? Yes, the cell phone has really bridged the gap. We sure have come a long way from the rotary phone. Many may remember the party line if they lived in a remote setting. Not much privacy there. The neighbours who shared the same line could listen in on all the details of you most intimate conversations. If the details were juicy enough, it became the topic of conversation for the whole community. GREAT!
It isn't a new concept that phones can be tapped in order to find out the details of one's personal life. In fact, cell phones are not exempt. It has made the news in Indianapolis where a teenager was receiving threats of murder and rape. Technology, although the one used is illegal, has provided an untraceable tool to spy on unsuspecting individuals. Every conversation, text message and very location were being tapped into. Plus, the phone didn't even have to be on in order to accomplish this.
Similarly, the FBI uses remote modifications of cell phones to track the conversations and the whereabouts of suspected criminals involved in organized crime.
Please read: my.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/privacy-infringement
I do apologize if this happens to be a repeat discussion. However, don't you find this a little unnerving? What I find the most unsettling is the fact that criminal minds will catch up to the expertise of the FBI and have the capability of tracking who ever they want. Devices that rely on radio waves can prove to be the perfect tool to watch your every move.
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Why do you complain ? we will have a perfect police state controlled society
Interview of Aaron Russo (who was the producer of Trading Places starring Eddy Murphy and Friend of Nick Rockefeller) :
video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=1263677258215075609-
Interesting video. The whole 911 issue was a tragedy for more than just the American people. However, the discussion was not based on a complaint but rather an awareness.
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I don't have a cell phone. I don't even have a cordless phone anymore.
Yes, you can be tracked - yes it is disturbing. That's why I avoid most things that can track me to the grocery store, the playground, and back home again -
You avoid your mobile phone also ? That's the number one way of tracking, in fact you have service on the internet to track your wife, children, employees.
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I don't have a mobile phone. Gave it up years ago.
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can't barter prepaid cards? -
No reception
Actually, I originally gave up the cell phone because we didn't have a reliable signal where we live, and I refuse to pay for 2 phone lines. It's either or, for me.
Now, I wouldn't get another cell phone if you paid me. It's so freaking nice to be unavailable, and to have people understand, psychologically, that not having a cell phone means that I am NOT at their beck and call 24 hours a day, and I refuse to be.
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I have a cell phone and I wouldn't give it up...but I do know what you mean Anok. I have people from work calling me after hours or early in the morning..even on the weekend. I hate that! Sometimes I just turn my cell off so that no one can bother me. -
having people being able to contact you anywhere can be a nuisance. I haven't used one since I had to cary the company emergency contact phone 24/7.
It's the middle of the @#$&* night, no problem--Just call John on the emergency phone about stupid unimportant bullsh!t. Never mind that he has to get up at 4AM and cover for the bosses punk-@ss 18 yr-old son who sends John text messages from mommy's phone telling him not to write his punk @ss up. It's OK to call that phone ANYtime.
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jflower - I not only found that others expected me to be available for their calls and every whim at all times, but I found that they would become angry or upset that I had turned off the phone/not answered/couldn't find it/whatever.
AND I found that I had an inexplicable need to have the stupid thing on, at all times. It's like when you're at home, and the phone rings - it could be a telemarketer, or it could be a friend or family member, or it could be an emergency. But with the cell phone, I was afraid that with every ring it could be something/someone important - so I couldn't turn it off. (In my head, I couldn't)
it was terrible! But now it's just - out of sight, out of mind - and I couldn't be happier not worrying about it, and focusing on doing whatever it is I want to do. Plus, everyone else has finally come to grips with the fact that I won't answer all the time, so they are less panicked, too. Meaning I get less frantic pone calls everyday.
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Agit8r I feel your pain. I'm a social worker I have to be on-cal 24/7 for a month at a time. I've even had foster parents wake me up early in the morning during my vacation because they needed directions to a training.
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@Anok - caller ID sure is a blessing and having a phone that isn't cordless...bravo
@jflower36 - a convenience that has a price. Hard to avoid if your career requires it.
@Agit8r - again, conveniece does have a price...which tends to be a pain for those who would not normally subject themselves to it. -
Those are great reasons to get rid of a cell phone Anok. It really is kind of annoying. But on the other hand, I do feel safer knowing that I can always access help if I need it. When I first became a social worker I got lost in a bad part of Compton and had to use a payphone on the street. Men were driving by and yelling things....after that I quickly bought a cell phone.
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sure, but it still wakes you up if you have to answer
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True, if I were driving about in a really bad neighborhood I might carry a cell phone, along with some mace, and a gun
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Arg....I just got another work related call...I'm NOT listening to the message.
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Yeah it's scary, but technology always has a price.
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It sure does.
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CRT monitors (cathode ray tubes) - those are the big huge heavy monitors, not the new lcd ones could actually be spied on from outside anyone's house. They emit electromagnetic waves that can be easily picked up, and with the right technology replicated on someone else's screen to see what you are seeing. Of course, now they don't really need to do this, since they can just hack right into your computer or put a program on it that just sends them everything you do.
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Yes, "all sorts of fancy ways that people can be spied on." Thanks for sharing.
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Frankly, I am not much for listening to the news as it is way too depressing...this is just another example of that. However, when it comes to the safety of others, I feel a need to share. Thank you all for providing your input.
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