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Your Cell Phone Makes You A Prisoner Of A Digital

World Where Virtually Anyone Can Hack You And

Track You

If you own a cell phone, you might as well kiss your

privacy goodbye. Cell phone companies know more

about us than most of us would ever dare to imagine.

Your cell phone company is tracking everywhere that yougo and it is making a record of everything that you do with

your phone. Much worse, there is a good chance that

your cell phone company has been selling this information

to anyone that is willing to pay the price - including locallaw enforcement. In addition, it is an open secret that the

federal government monitors and records all cell phone

calls. The "private conversation" that you are having witha friend today will be kept in federal government

databanks for many years to come. The truth is that by

using a cell phone, you willingly make yourself a prisoner of a digitalworld where every move that you make and every conversation that

you have is permanently recorded. But it is not just cell phonecompanies and government agencies that you have to worry about.

As you will see at the end of this article, it is incredibly easy for any

would-be stalker to hack you and track your every movement using

your cell phone. In fact, many spyware programs allow hackers to

listen to you through your cell phone even when your cell phone is

turned off. Sadly, most cell phone users have absolutely no idea

about any of this stuff.

The next time that you get a notice from your cell phone company about "changes" to the privacy policy, you mightwant to play close attention. Your cell phone company might be about to sell off your most personal information to

anyone that is willing to write a big enough check. The following is from a recent CNN article....

Your phone company knows where you live, what websites you visit, what apps you download,

what videos you like to watch, and even where you are. Now, some have begun selling thatvaluable information to the highest bidder.

In mid-October, Verizon Wireless changed its privacy policy to allow the company to record

customers' location data and Web browsing history, combine it with other personal information like

age and gender, aggregate it with millions of other customers' data, and sell it on an anonymous

basis.

So who is buying this information?

We just don't know.

But we do know that local law enforcement agencies all over the country are increasingly using cell phone data tonail suspects, and often it is the cell phone companies that are the ones selling them the cell phone data that they


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"Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become

a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of

departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight."

That same article says that cell phone companies have standard prices that they charge to local law enforcementofficials for information that they request....

"Cell carriers, staffed with special law enforcement liaison teams, charge police departments from

a few hundred dollars for locating a phone to more than $2,200 for a full-scale wiretap of a

suspect."

So if you are breaking the law, your cell phone may be used to gather evidence and to track you down. In the United

States, cell phone companies are required by law to be able to pinpoint the locations of their customers to within100 meters. So if you are a criminal, your cell phone could be leading the police right to you even as you arereading this article.

Sometimes the police don't even use the cell phone companies. Recently, the Wall Street Journal ran an article

that discussed the capabilities of the "stingray devices" that many local law enforcement agencies are using now.

A "stingray device" acts like a cell phone tower and it can gather any information that a normal cell phone tower can.

The following is how a recent Wired article described these "stingrays"....

You make a call on your cellphone thinking the only thing standing between you and the recipient

of your call is your carriers cellphone tower. In fact, that tower your phone is connecting to just

might be a boobytrap set up by law enforcement to ensnare your phone signals and maybe even

the content of your calls.

So-called stingrays are one of the new high-tech tools that authorities are using to track and

identify you. The devices, about the size of a suitcase, spoof a legitimate cellphone tower in order

to trick nearby cellphones and other wireless communication devices into connecting to the tower,

as they would to a real cellphone tower.

The government maintains that the stingrays dont violate Fourth Amendment rights, sinceAmericans dont have a legitimate expectation of privacy for data sent from their mobile phones

and other wireless devices to a cell tower.

Isn't that just great?

The attitude that law enforcement agencies seem to have is that once we use a cell phone we are essentially

willingly throwing our Fourth Amendment rights out the window.

In some areas of the United States, police are physically extracting data from cell phones any time they want as well.According to the ACLU, state police in Michigan have been using "extraction devices" to download data from thecell phones of motorists that they pull over. This is taking place even if the motorists that are pulled over are notaccused of doing anything wrong. The following is how an article posted on CNET News describes the capabilities

of these "extraction devices"....


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The devices, sold by a company called Cellebrite, can download text messages, photos, video,

and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various

interfaces to work with different models and can even bypass security passwords and access

some information.

Fortunately these "extraction devices" are being challenged in court. Let us hope that they will be banned.

But what local law enforcement officials are doing pales in comparison to what federal agencies are doing.

For example, the FBI claims that it can demand to see your cell phone data whenever it would like to.

Not only that, the FBI has also been remotely activating the microphones on the cell phones of suspects that theywant to listen to. This can be done even when the cell phone is turned off....

The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal

investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on

nearby conversations.

The technique is called a "roving bug," and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice

officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of

conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.

Could the FBI be listening to you right now?

If there is a cell phone in the room they could be.

But some other federal agencies listen to a lot more cell phone calls than the FBI does.

It has been an open secret for a long time that the federal government monitors and records all cell phone calls that

are made for national security reasons.

In fact, the federal government is even trying to collect records for calls that have been made in the distant past.

According to USA Today, the goal is "to create a database of every call ever made"....

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of

millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct

knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

In addition, the federal government has been constructing the largest data center in the history of the world out in the

Utah desert. This data center will be used to house an almost unimaginable amount of digital data (including your

cell phone calls). The following is how a recent Wired article described this new facility....

Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center


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The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing

through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of

communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google

searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trailsparking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore

purchases, and other digital pocket litter.

But isn't it illegal for the federal government to intercept our phone calls?

Well, the cold, hard reality of the matter is that they use all kinds of loopholes and legal technicalities to get around

that.

For example, if a call is "intercepted" outside of the United States and then routed to a government building inside

the United States that is considered to be okay.

Of course that is a bunch of nonsense, but that is how they think.

And it is very frightening thing for governments around the world to be able to monitor and track us like this.

Increasingly, governments around the world are using cell phones to hunt down people that they do not like and haul

them off to prison. For example, a recent Bloomberg article detailed how the Iranian government is aggressivelyusing cell phones to crack down on dissidents....

The Iranian officers who knocked out Saeid Pourheydars four front teeth also enlightened the

opposition journalist. Held in Evin Prison for weeks following his arrest early last year for

protesting, he says, he learned that he was not only fighting the regime, but also companies that

armed Tehran with technology to monitor dissidents like him.

Pourheydar, 30, says the power of this enemy became clear as intelligence officers brandishedtranscripts of his mobile phone calls, e-mails and text messages during his detention. About half

the political prisoners he met in jail told him police had tracked their communications and

movements through their cell phones, he says.

Christians in Iran have learned that they must take the batteries entirely out of their cell phones before they gather forhome church meetings. If they don't take the batteries out of their cell phones, there is a good chance that the secret

police will show up and drag them off to prison.

Most Americans don't need to worry about getting hauled off to prison for political or religious reasons at this point,but there is another aspect of cell phone security that could potentially affect all of us.

Most Americans are completely unaware of what stalkers can potentially do if they are able to hack into a cell

phone. For example, did you know that spyware can make it possible for a stalker to monitor where you are 24hours a day and listen to everything that you say even when your cell phone is turned off? The following is from an

article posted by WTHR....

Spyware marketers claim you can tap into someone's calls, read their text messages and track

their movements "anywhere, anytime." They say you can "catch a cheating spouse", protect your

children from an evil babysitter and "hear what your boss is saying about you." And while you're

spying on others the Spyware companies say "no one will ever know" because it's supposed to be


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"It's real, and it is pretty creepy," said Rick Mislan, a former military intelligence officer who now

teaches cyber forensics at Purdue University's Department of Computer and Information

Technology.

Mislan has examined thousands of cell phones inside Purdue's Cyber Forensics Lab, and he says

spy software can now make even the most high-tech cell phone vulnerable.

For much more from WTHR about what stalkers can do to your cell phone, just check out this amazing video. It is

one of the best news reports that I have ever seen.

Are you starting to see how your cell phone makes you a prisoner of a digital world?

The police can listen to you and track you any time that they want to.

The federal government can listen to you and track you any time that they want to.

Big corporations can buy all of the personal information that cell phones gather any time that they want to fromcertain cell phone companies.

Stalkers can listen to you and track you 24 hours a day if they are able to hack in to your cell phone somehow.

If you own a cell phone and you still want to have some privacy, then you need to take the battery completely out ofthe cell phone when you are not using it.

Our world is becoming a much less private place, and we all need to be mindful of the changes that are happening.

Unfortunately, as our world becomes even more interconnected and even more dependent on technology, theamount of privacy we all have is likely to continue to decrease. A digital Big Brother control grid is being constructed

all around us, and in the future that control grid could potentially be used for very malevolent purposes.

So let us be as wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Our world is changing, and not for the better.


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31 comments to Your Cell Phone Makes You A Prisoner Of A Digital World Where Virtually

Anyone Can Hack You And Track You

mondobeyondoApril 5th, 2012 at 6:19 pm Reply

Almost everyone has a cell phone these days. But you do not NEED a cell phone.

Back in the Jurassic Era, when I was a teenager (1983), we did just fine without cell phones. Nearly everyone had

land lines wires that ran through your house and connected to this plastic square box-like device with buttons,with a hand-held receiver and buttons on the console, which youd push to call someone. You couldnt even text

on it! Oh, the horror!! The nationwide telecommunications company that most people called Ma Bell (aka AT&T)

was the sole telephone provider. There was no Sprint. No Verizon. No T-Mobile. (AT&T was deregulated by the

federal government on January 1, 1984).Sure, there was phone tapping and stuff, but nothing on the scale of todays hacking and data intercepting.

guidoApril 5th, 2012 at 7:32 pm Reply

Yeah, it sucks and its awful to lose your privacy, but there is an alternative-Dont use a damn cell

phone! You may not believe it, but you can survive without it.

Set Our Children Free


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April 5th, 2012 at 7:44 pm Reply

Theres a remedy. Pay cash for your phone, give a fake name, and pay for your unlimited minutes six

months in advance. Disable your GPS. No one will know its you that owns the phone, especially if youwatch who you call, and what you say. If the government moves to take away this option, scream like a stuck pig.

We should be able to do something without being identified and tracked. Dont buy the excuse that they need to

do it to keep us safe from terrorism. Choose freedom over saftety and security or you dont deserve either.

Tatiana CovingtonApril 5th, 2012 at 8:41 pm Reply

Cellphones are like chipped flints, hammers, and lasers. They are our tools. They are as we makethem. What we do with them is our lookout.

If we screw up, it is our own damn fault.

1stVAriflemanApril 5th, 2012 at 10:33 pm Reply

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated,

enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded,

by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at everyoperation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed,

licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of

public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited,

monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of

complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked,

imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed,

derided, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs

over our cities states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses generally referred to as

international bankers. This little coterie run our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under coverof a self-created screen[and] seizesour executive officers legislative bodiesschools courts

newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.

John F Hylan

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator

with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure

these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT

OF THE GOVERNED, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, IT IS THERIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR TO ABOLISH IT, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation

on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety

and Happiness.

Deceleration of IndependenceThomas Jefferson

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judgingof the future but by the past. Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs

and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not

weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions ofpeople, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any

force which our enemy can send against us. it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but


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give me death!

Patrick Henry

LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

ScoutMottoApril 5th, 2012 at 10:34 pm Reply

The attitude that law enforcement agencies seem to have is that once we use a cell phone we are

essentially willingly throwing our Fourth Amendment rights out the window.

If the public at large realized this and valued their 4th Amendment right, a large part of them would cease to use

the service, and cell companies would go out of business. Same with internet service. There is NO expectation of

privacy on the internet for anyone.

ScoutMottoApril 5th, 2012 at 10:41 pm Reply

The more I think about it, the more it seems true that government at all levels see our acceptance of

various forms of communications technology as a de facto surrender of our rights not to be spied on

by them. I dont relish the idea of an EMP strike, but it would sure restore our privacy to the hilt.

Airborne 71April 6th, 2012 at 1:11 am Reply

ok fine then just just throw the damm things away then and try to live without them ! The only problem

is we have become so dependant on them that most of us cant . The best info from this article is to

take the battery out of the phone or you will be tracked , and once its out DONT put it back in especally in a

SHTF situtation where you dont want to be found . OH here is a happy thought , what if the phones have one ofthose tracking labels imbedded in it like shipping boxes so ? So no matter what even with out the battery in it you

can be tracked ! what a concept ! Now I am really Paranoid !

ChrisApril 6th, 2012 at 2:35 am Reply

This was probably one of the two reasons for creating mobile phones. The other being to makemoney.

A.S.April 6th, 2012 at 4:20 am Reply

With technology there is NO EXPECTATION of ANY privacy. Even every key stroke, every mouse

click, every login, etc., is recorded FOREVER. All the privacy policies dont mean a thing, becausethey are just lies to make you feel secure. Only G-d Almighty can protect you (and your family) from the evildoers.

Hmm, Bush said Muslims are evildoers; I say people like him and his cronies are evildoers. RON PAUL, WENEED YOU!!!

WilliamA il 6th 2012 t 5 28 R l


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limited functions/minutes for emergencies only.

mspyApril 6th, 2012 at 7:30 am Reply

No matter if some one searches for his essential thing, thus he/she desires to be

available that in detail, therefore that thing is maintainedover here.

El Pollo de OroApril 6th, 2012 at 8:14 am Reply

George Orwell would be shocked if he saw what was happening. Its far greater than he could have

ever imagined.Gerald Celente

I dont think people realize just how evil and what an abomination our country has become.Alex Jones

Its Fascism 2.0, the merger of state and corporate powers. Next train to Auschwitz, all aboard! No need to worryabout those calorieskiss them goodbye.Gerald Celente

Theyre putting these draconian measures and this police state in place because they know theres going to be a

lot of mass protestsvery large protests throughout Europe, throughout the United States, throughout Russia.

The systems are collapsing, and theyre putting everything in place to clamp down on the people.GeraldCelente

When a cop shoots a black guy in handcuffs and then lies about it, you dont see Obama talk about it because

thats seen as the system. But when they can try to play black off against white, they do it because the

presstitutes want us fighting with each other instead of knowing its the big offshore megabanks.Alex Jones

The people are signing their own death warrant when they go to vote for the two criminal partiesThe only

way I see this ending is to end these two criminal operations called the Republicans and the Democrats.Gerald Celente

You have psychopaths and sociopaths in charge.Gerald Celente

This isnt capitalism. Its fascism. Capisch? We have become slaves to the money changers. Theyll take you to

war, theyll rob you blind, theyll spit on you and grind you up. They could care less because theyre moneyjunkies. And junkies have no bounds or boundaries. Theyll screw their mother, and theyll screw you too.

Gerald Celente

kristiniteApril 23rd, 2012 at 7:30 pm Reply

Alex Jones seems nice, but do you notice how he claims to be Christian- yet never tells people

how to get to Heaven? He seems more interested in scare tactics, and exposing secrets. His

website is full of all sorts of advertisements for gun related stuff, anti gov. talk (be careful, under NDAA anti

gov speak can have you arrested! I think AJ is a lure, and an agent provocateur) if he is so dangerous ashe likes us to believe, why is his empire so HUGE? Trust me on this one, those who speak the real truth

will NOT be popular. And there are TONS of alternative news sites and radio shows claiming to have allsorts of stuff they dont want you to see. Baloney. You go to the site, and there is a lot of weird garbage,

UFO talk, David Icky etc. They are designed to lure you away from Christ yet trick you into thinking they

ARE Christian. Fakes.


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The world has changed and not for the better. I have a cell phone but it does not get a signal at home. I would not

think that they could tap in here but who knows. I never text or use the phone for any use other than to talk to

someone when I am on the road. Most people that I know use their cell phone for all forms of communication.These government control freaks will never stop as long as we allow the government to continue to grow in size.

We need to shrink the size and scope of government.

YodaApril 6th, 2012 at 12:33 pm Reply

Kudos American Dream:

Since a caveman discovered that a jade club wood break a wood club its been measure and countermeasure.

Even a modicum of privacy is a thing of the past. The average American housewife is photographed over 200times in a typical trip to her local mall.

An oppressive communist revolution is coming to a neighborhood near you.

Be aware and be prepared: http://www.magnifiedview.com/2010/09/17/yodas-little-known-tactics-to-avoid-being-a-target/

Right on American Dream WRITE ON!

P.S. May you live in interesting times. Ancient Chinese curse.

Spook89April 6th, 2012 at 6:26 pm Reply

Thats why we rely on single side band radio communications.

ProftelApril 6th, 2012 at 11:07 pm Reply

I think Obama will lose.The crisis will come and God only knows what this world will turn.

:-/

MisterDApril 7th, 2012 at 9:48 am Reply

Scary how all of this is becoming.

AwakenedApril 7th, 2012 at 12:21 pm Reply

No comments yet?!


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ProftelApril 7th, 2012 at 2:09 pm Reply

I, Viola (guitar) and God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK7IQkNxaCE

:-)

OldPhartApril 7th, 2012 at 10:31 pm Reply

Ive been using a ***** Telephone for the last couple of years. I picked it up at a grocery store for

about $15. I have no contract, and buy minutes as I need them. At most the cell outfit has my name.

Thats not to say that every tracking feature wouldnt work, but I wonder how the authorities would handle a

phone without a registered address, no credit card info, no bank info, and nothing much more than a name.

Best yet, I could toss what I have away, get a new one and continue on.

I dont use a phone for much more than as a communication device, and thats not too often. Ive never cared forthe concept of a contract with cell phones. I agree for two years to pay someone with no guarantee of decent

service or coverage? No thanks.

EarlApril 8th, 2012 at 12:48 pm Reply

The sad thing is I told some friends and family about this and they just dont seem to care. I showed

them the facts, but sadly most people probably are getting used to being watched and dont care.

Heck,Half of them said I was paranoid and should get a hobby.But better to be a little paranoid than oblivious sheep.

OzmoApril 9th, 2012 at 11:20 am Reply

Im just glad I dont carry one. Really No need for it.

KevinApril 9th, 2012 at 1:48 pm Reply

Sadly people are so addicted to their phones their convience factor overrides their concern for

privacy

KnoxvkidApril 9th, 2012 at 6:01 pm Reply

We are already being watched by God. He sees everything we do and say.

Mickierat


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MickieratApril 9th, 2012 at 10:57 pm Reply

PREPAID DISPOSABLES. Duh, easy solution. Stop shouting about the sky falling you paranoid************.

DoloresApril 13th, 2012 at 6:11 pm Reply

Hi Earl,

Just because your paranoid doesnt mean theyre not really out to get you. :-)

Even the hypochondriac gets it right once in a while.

Ken SackApril 15th, 2012 at 3:32 pm Reply

We are already being watched by God. He sees everything we do and say. yes, but He respects

our rights.

kristiniteApril 23rd, 2012 at 7:25 pm Reply

I dont have a cell. I had a prepaid, that I ignored and let run out of $. 2 months later, coincidentally

Virginmobile all of a sudden gave me a 20dollar credit, as a gift. This was right after I left a

comment on another site advising people that Faxing over a landline copper wire (NOT cable phone) is THE mostsecure way, today, to send a document. Do away with your bundled cable TV plan with phone. If your cable

goes out, so does your phone! And what happened to beepers? Remember those? They didnt fall by the

wayside by accident. Anything that all of a sudden becomes unpopular is no coincidence. VCRs wont delete

your data like internet can. Do you think your saved files on your computer are saved forever? Think again! They

CAN and WILL be altered (read your TOS) and your itunes CAN be deleted or altered at will. So can DVDs,when connected to internet. This is not crazy talk, its real. Look up Monty Pythons life of brian film, all references

to the Zion sketch were removed. But, not VHS tapes of the film- IF you can find it. Any of those tapes for sale arebought up, by propagandists and collectors. There are more examples..

ImmuneZoneJune 20th, 2012 at 11:32 pm Reply

I love this site. I have always known these facts. I have never owned a cell phone, ever, I am 36 years

old. I do just fine without all of these. I do own a lap top though, and I only use it at a wife source. No

internet at home and no I am not paranoid.

I had a younger girl completely go crazy after I told her this, she was in shock. So was I at her reaction. Howdo you make it in life? What if there is an emergency blah blah.

My answer, was I am actually making it quite nicely and relaxingly. Emergency, well what is the worst that can

happen? Death? Then it is already too late, and I would rather know later then sooner.

I am happy I found this place because for awhile I thought there were no more real people around.

Lets keep it going. I am willing.

Peace people

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