Tuesday, 9 September 2008

Your mobile phone: the spy who you loved

I found this link on Slashdot. The article on CNet is quite scary.
Quote:
[...] private companies now sell off-the-shelf data-mining solutions to government spies interested in analyzing mobile-phone calling records and real-time location information. These companies include ThorpeGlen, VASTech, Kommlabs, and Aqsacom--all of which sell "passive probing" data-mining services to governments around the world.
According to the screenshot on the web page, you can with this software obtain the following information about any user:
  • physical location, tracking a person's move
  • email addresses he uses
  • call fingerprinting: you can follow the user even if he uses multiple SIMs and handsets
Read more if you want to have a look at the potential abuses that these technologies raises.

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