Hackers Can Track Your Cellphone Without Your Knowledge

[Guest]

Vulnerabilities in smartphones have become a common portion of our daily news life.

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[amdfangirl]

So those phones in the Matrix...

So that's how Mr. Smith...

Wow...

 

[Guest]

if this happening 10 years ago. I will be like.
what? how? why?
but now is at 2012.........I will just be like.
ok. whatever. things happen. so. I dont give a f

 

[madooo12]

can't carriers do that already ???

 

[intelx]

like this is something new, carriers, google, ICQ, FBI dose all that already without your knowledge.

 

[mitch074]

The G20 in Cannes (France) was recently saved by a Lebanese restaurant owner who found a secret file (detailing the fifth floor of the Carlton hotel where Obama was staying, escape routes, staff appointments, schedules...) forgotten by a FBI agent who had come to buy a sandwich.

The owner contacted the FBI (in the US) with his cell phone and read the file's first page to an incredulous phone operator who told him "Don't move - we're coming" and then hung up without waiting for an address. Five minutes later, two agents entered the restaurant and took the file.

Yes, they had tracked the call to the restaurant owner's cell phone - in France, thus outside the FBI's jurisdiction. Did they have a temporary authorisation from the French police force? Or did they simply ask their staff "ok you losers, who lost his file? A restaurant owner found it." "Oh shit, that's me!". This article hints at the former.

 

[aznguy0028]

damn it, now they know that the only person I'm calling is my mom! :forever alone: haha

 

[davidgermain]

How long is a block? 1Mile x 1Mile 1AU x 1AU. come on ppl use mile KM Meters some sort of real distance?

 

[davidgermain]

Oh add this to tracking root kit on lots of phones, and tracking should be easy.

 

[davidgermain]

dont most have location services turned on by default so all this clever stuff with tech and code and hacks, just friend them on facebook. oh look there you are.....

 

[d-isdumb]

[citation][nom]davidgermain[/nom]Oh add this to tracking root kit on lots of phones, and tracking should be easy.[/citation]
Carrier IQ which belongs to the FEDS.

 

[d-isdumb]

[citation][nom]davidgermain[/nom]dont most have location services turned on by default so all this clever stuff with tech and code and hacks, just friend them on facebook. oh look there you are.....[/citation]
Facebook is for tools.

 

[greenrider02]

"Hackers Can Track Your Cellphone Without Your Knowledge"

If they could do it and you knew, they wouldn't be very good hackers, now would they?

 

[frozonic]

apple and google do the same thing but in the "legal" way

 

[dimar]

Our daily life is full of vulnerabilities, who will it take to patch them?

 

[freggo]

[citation][nom]davidgermain[/nom]How long is a block? 1Mile x 1Mile 1AU x 1AU. come on ppl use mile KM Meters some sort of real distance?[/citation]

A 'block' is typically 1/10 mile or 160meters.

 

[dalethepcman]

On a lighter note, the cell companies have been tracking you for years. It's a relief to know that the corporations and government are still years ahead of the underground hacker community when it comes to cellular tracking.

 

[phil8192]

10 blocks is 1 mile, so one might locate a phone within 3.14 square miles. That's not very good in a high density urban setting, where one can easily hide in the crowd. Unless they're looking for a vehicle to go with that phone, the chances of finding the user aren't all that good.

 

[nebun]

no problem here, they can track me if they want....it's not like they are going to kill me....wait maybe they are, lol....such paranoia

 

[amstech]

Attention everyone.
There are peanuts in peanut butter.

Thanks.