Cellphone carriers can listen in through your phone

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

From: Cellphones
URL: http://cellphones.engadget.com/entry/1234000563053276/
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Cellphone carriers can listen in through your phone?Aug 5, 2005,  
10:20 AM ET by Ryan Block

We’re always a little wary of that very blurry line between  
protection of the general public and infringements on basic civil  
liberties, but it would appear that according to the Financial Times  
by way of the Guardian, at least one UK cellphone carrier not only  
has the power (and mandate) to remotely install software over the air  
to users’ handsets that would allow for the kind of monitoring we  
thought only perverts and paranoiacs had access to: picking up audio  
from the phone’s mic when the device isn’t on a call. While don’t  
think the backlash on this one has really gotten underway yet, and  
though we do hate to rock a cliché, we can’t help but be reminded of  
that classic Benjamin Franklin quote, “They that can give up  
essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither  
liberty nor safety.” What’s worse, a cellphone carrier and The Man  
are gonna take it from us without our permission on the sly?

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