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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 7:08 AM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> In aus.computers 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/
>>
>> 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 (though
>> depending on the model I'm sure there are numerous hacks for that too).
>> Seems just to be about listening in to phone calls.
>>
>
> so is it the case that once out of the (short? limited?) range of the imsi 
> your phone cannot be monitored anymore?

IMSI catcher, yep.

> also.. how can an SMS be sent, as mentioned, without knowing a phone 
> number?

Xenophon did know the phone # because Coulthart was
talking to him on that phone and the wog obviously had
a full mobile phone base that Coulthart's phone was using.

The whole thing was completely bogus. 

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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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