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Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking

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"felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message 
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> On 17-August-2015 7:53 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>> felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> wrote
>>
>>>>>> http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/the-end-of-privacy-as-we-kno
>>>>>> w-it-60-minutes-uncovers-huge-mobile-phone-security-vulnerabilities/story-
>>>>>> fn6vihic-1227485884359
>>
>>>> Its completely trivial to fake what they did and that's what they did.
>>>> They obviously had that fool Coulthart use their base and did it that 
>>>> way.
>>
>>> Whether they faked it or not, it's been easy to do for years:
>>> "Cracking GSM with RTL-SDR for Thirty Dollars"
>>> http://hackaday.com/2013/10/22/cracking-gsm-with-rtl-sdr-for-thirty-dollars/
>>
>> That doesn’t let you work out where Xenophon was at the time of the call.
>>
>>> I only paid $0.50 for my USB TV tuner at a garage sale. I should give 
>>> this
>>> phone hacking a go some time. With my own phone calls of course.
>>
>>>> They can't steal anything from your phone that isn't on it.
>>
>>> I didn't notice anything about getting stuff stored on the phones
>>
>> Right at the beginning, a completely stupid claim, pure hype.
>>
>>> (though depending on the model I'm sure
>>> there are numerous hacks for that too).
>>
>> Not with the best of them.
>>
>>> Seems just to be about listening in to phone calls.
>>
>> Nope, they claimed a hell of a lot more than just that.
>>
>> Even you must have noticed the wog working out where
>> Coulthart was in his car in London, close to Big Ben etc.
>
> they said that necessitated having location services turned on on your 
> phone

They lied, it isn't even possible with the best phones. 

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'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-16 23:30 +1000
  Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 05:06 +1000
    Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 06:27 +1000
      Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2015-08-16 21:08 +0000
        Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 07:53 +1000
          Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-17 11:28 +1000
            Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 12:48 +1000
              Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-17 19:48 +1000
                Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-18 07:23 +1000
        Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-17 11:33 +1000
          Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 12:51 +1000
    Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-17 07:29 +1000
      Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 07:55 +1000
        Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-17 08:59 +1000
          Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2015-08-17 11:19 +1000
            Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 12:42 +1000
          Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 12:39 +1000
    Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-17 11:21 +1000
      Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 12:47 +1000
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  Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2015-08-17 22:52 +0000
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