Mobile Phone Conversations Hack

Hearing that what you talk about on your mobile phone can be intercepted by the Government is bad enough, hearing it can be done by your loudmouth neighbor is even worse.

So what exactly is going on with mobile phone security these days? I don’t really know but it seems that recently there’s just a build up of security flaws being discovered.

GSM security is so poor that it seems that if that loudmouth neighbor of yours has four cheap mobile phones at his disposal and gets his hands on some special open source software he could tap into your late night dirty calls relatively easy.

Mobile Hacking Section

The actual process of intercepting mobile phone conversations is probably difficult to understand by an average Joe but it’s not impossible. Armed with some 50 dollars worth of old mobile phones, patience, the right software and the right information off the Internet “anything is possible”.

The mobile phone interceptions include a major effort in creating something to record the actual conversations and text messages so you (as a hacker) don’t have to constantly keep listening in.

From there on it’s plain sailing and in a recent interview some of the largest mobile phone network operators admit to this discovery being seriously well documented.

Before panic sets in you should calm down, it took a couple of researchers more than a year to hack into the conversations and text messages of a mobile phone. This means that if somebody was to go through the effort of doing such a thing they’d probably target somebody of major importance before turning to your girlfriend’s calls.

Then again, jealousy may turn out to be the proper fuel needed for mobile phone hacking to go mainstream. The technique doesn’t work on intercepting all sorts of mobile phones but there are still some five billion mobile phone that are exposed to GSM interception.

Adapted from :finestdaily.com