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Re: 'Sixty Minutes' report - mobile phone hacking

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"felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message 
news:d3dov4Fr4mrU1@mid.individual.net...
> On 17-August-2015 12:48 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message 
>> news:d3crm6FkenpU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> 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.
>
> but we saw the hacker doing it

But you have no idea what the wog loaded onto Coulthart's
phone without Coulthart being aware of what he had done.

We don’t even know what Coulthart's phone was. It is completely
trivial to load shit onto androids if you know what you are doing. 

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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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