IP: Detecting Cell Phones Used As Bugging Devices

[David Farber <dfarber@earthlink.net>]

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From: David Chessler <chessler@usa.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:00:48 
To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
Subject: FWD: Detecting Cell Phones Used As Bugging Devices

A followup on a recent story on the list about criminals using cell phones 
to spy on the police.

NewsScan Daily, 11 June 2002 ("Above The Fold")

DETECTING CELL PHONES USED AS BUGGING DEVICES
An Israeli company has developed a device that can detect when a room is
being bugged by a modified cell phone, which an intruder could call from
anywhere in the world without it emitting a ringing tone. The phone's
screen remains blank and it appears to be turned off. A co-designer of the
device says, "The beauty of the cell phone as a bug is that it's an
innocent looking and ubiquitous object. People trust cell phones, but
modified and left in idle mode the cell phone can be used as a transmitter
for up to a week. If it's connected to a power supply it can provide
endless intelligence. Professional bugsweepers will ignore the cell phone
frequency since the phones are so common and not suspicious." (Reuters 11
Jun 2002)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=4&u=/nm/20020611/tc_nm/tech_israel_netline_dc_1

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