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Legal Spying Via the Cell Phone System

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the totally-legal-yup-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two researchers say they have found a way to exploit weaknesses in the mobile telecom system to legally spy on people by figuring out the private cell phone number of anyone they want, tracking their whereabouts, and listening to their voice mail."

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  1. Legal? What about the new caller ID law... by Orga · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From TFA: DePetrillo used open-source PBX software to spoof the outgoing caller ID and then automated phone calls to himself, triggering the system to force a name lookup. I thought spoofing caller ID was now illegal...

  2. it's not the headline that's bad. by fyngyrz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With good enough lawyers, everything is legal.

    With the ability to read the constitution - and reason above a third grade level - it is 100% clear that spying on a US citizen's communications without probable cause AND a warrant is not an authorized power for the US government or a US state. It is also doubtful that there exists, or can exist with constitution as currently constructed, a justification for a private citizen exercising such a power.

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