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So that must be why cell phones have not only become dirt cheap, but are
encouraged to be used by everyone --then the gov't can bug anyone they want w/out
the individual evne knowing about it.
The fact the the manufacturer denies it is no surprise --their contract probably
stipulates that they deny everything.
Bill Kingsbury wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> -------- forwarded message --------
> From: Frits Westra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999
> Subj: [EWAR] Radio Sweden on Mobile Phone Tapping
>
> Hello all,
>
> Last night (Feb. 13) I listened to 'Sweden Today', a news program
> of the English service of Radio Sweden:
>
> http://www.sr.se/rs/english/schedule/
>
> They had an interesting report on mobile phone tapping. The head
> of SEPO, the Swedish secret service, claims that mobile telephones
> can be bugged even when switched off.
>
> I wrote a transcription of the full report. Names of people
> mentioned in this report may be misspelled.
>
> --[begin transcription Radio Sweden report]-----
>
> People in Sweden are being warned not to take mobile phones into
> meetings where sensitive information is being discussed. The
> warning comes from no less than the head of the secret service
> here. He says you only need a mobile phone number to be able to
> bug a conversation, regardless of whether the phone is switched off
> or not. Jeson Cristie has the story.
>
> From the Swedish secret service circle comes the statement that
> GSM mobile phones can be used for industrial espionage, even when
> switched off. This is the latest in a string of reports claiming
> that all is not as technologically foolproof as first thought.
> Brain tumors, electric shocks, and a threat of impotency among
> males who carry a mobile phone close to the genitals have all been
> talked about of late. But bugging or tapping of conversations has
> long [unintelligible]. Many might think that tapping of
> conversations via a mobile is highly unlikely, and even fewer might
> think that it's possible to listen into conversations going on
> around a mobile telephone, without the need for the phone to be
> switched on.
>
> On the line is the head of the secret service, Andres Erikson, and
> I asked him what he said during a speech on people and security,
> here in Sweden.
>
> "There is equipment available for telephone tapping of GSM
> telephones and you have to take into account that such telephone
> call can be listened to by other people without the help of the
> telephone operator. And the other issue is, is it possible to
> use GSM telephones for bugging ? And the answer is: yes, it is
> possible. There is no need to put into the telephone anything
> special. You can use the telephone as it is. But I don't want
> to go into how this can be done, because I don't want to give
> people information about this matter. So, our recommendation is:
> you should not speak over the telephone about secret things, and
> you should not bring GSM telephones into rooms where you talk
> about secret things."
>
> Is there any way of knowing that your mobile is being bugged ?
>
> "No, it is not, it doesn't show on the telephone."
>
> Can conversations be recorded when the telephone is switched off ?
>
> "It can, yes."
>
> And in a conversation with the Swedish company Ericsson is revealed
> that the industry strongly disagrees with the statements made by
> SEPO. The spokesperson for the telecommunications giant, Nina Eld,
> denounced the claim that it is possible that a switched off mobile
> telephone can be bugged.
>
> "We've been talking around in the industry about this, And
> I think everybody was really surprised about this statement.
> To our understanding and in our belief there is no chance to
> do this. The phone isn't prepared, you couldn't use it to
> bug anybody."
>
> What do you mean, prepared ?
>
> "Well, I mean you could prepare a phone, fix it in some way.
> I suppose that is what they mean, but I don't know... Actually,
> ask him what he means with it. Because to our understanding
> there is no such possibility."
>
> Has there been any dialogue between mobile telephone companies
> and SEPO on this issue ?
>
> "This is no issue for us. Because we don't believe this is
> the case."
>
> And that was Nina Eld, spokesperson for the Swedish communcations
> giant Ericsson.
>
> --[end transcription Radio Sweden report]-----
>
> Read you later,
> Frits Westra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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