Fun with cellphones
By ArnY on Saturday 10 March 2007, 12:22 - security - Permalink
Ever heard of the Cellphone Cloning method? It's a way of transfering the identity of a phone to another, generally for the purpose of making fraudulent calls. It's fun because if you are located near the same transmission tower as the cellphone you cloned, you'll get copies of text messages and calls made to the original phone. You'll need to have access to the original cellphone and clone the sim, then upload the sim data into your phone. No easy thing.
What about being able to get any unencrypted transmission made around your cellphone directly on it?
Any cellphone can potentially do that.. if you can get the right firmware, of course. It will turn your cellphone into a kind of radio, and as long as the network doesn't use a sophisticated encryption, you'll be able to pick up any text message addressed to a phone near you.
Those two technics are highly illegal, of course.
Phone cloning on Wikipedia
Wallmart fires employee over cellphone taping on the nytimes.com.