[100% Work] How can phone calls and text messages be tracked?
How can phone calls and text messages be tracked?
They are competent interceptors. However, it does not include all possible mobile phone intercepts.
The chances of someone actually eavesdropping on your SMS messages are quite slim. However, it does not imply that it cannot be done.
In fact, a recent piece in the online publication Slate illustrates how both good people and terrible people go about doing it.
Criminals are bad individuals, and law enforcement is good people working to apprehend these criminals.
Cloning a phone is the first method. With this technique, it is possible to intercept incoming messages and send outgoing ones from a stolen phone. Your SIM card is copied by the wicked guys. They do this using SIM scanners that can read the encryption key on your card. The SIM card may then be used in another phone.
By the way, there are severe penalties for doing this. Furthermore, there is no absolute assurance that the phone's encryption won't be very advanced. [Explain]
These thieves are also capable of installing very, very unlawful firmware on your phone to carry out their nefarious act. As Christopher Beam of Slate (a fitting moniker, given the topic, huh)? explains
By doing this (using firmware), your phone effectively becomes a radio and can pick up all the messages broadcast on a certain channel rather than just the ones that are directed at you. Additionally, you would need to be aware of the network used by the target phone—for example, Verizon, Cingular, or T-Mobile—and confirm that both your phone and the target are within range of the same base station. Since all you really need is a computer, a phone, and some firmware that any serious techie could obtain online for free, this approach isn't too pricey.
Chris, I agree, but how do they do it in series like CSI:Miami?
Since GSM networks are used in the plot, they would employ Cellular Monitoring GSM Intercept model GSM 2060TP and Cellular Intercept, respectively (CDMA).
We find very little information regarding any of these solutions on the Securities Intelligence Technologies Group website. That makes sense since we don't want terrorists and drug traffickers to know how we follow them. Information is accessible but only to logged-in users (ideally law enforcement types).
The following is what the business website says about the CDMA intercept solution:
"The strongest signal in a CDMA service region is automatically detected by this cellular intercept device." The CDMA Cellular Monitor operates as a mobile phone interceptor on international CDMA networks and also eavesdrops on traffic channels for both sides of a conversation as well as control channels. "
Less information is provided on GSM intercept, but in terms of general intercept capabilities, we discover that:
"Since HSS Cellular Intercept Devices already have the necessary decryption technology, there is no need to connect to any cellular network (unlike when employing hardwire junctures or non-"off the air "monitoring systems). The HSS Cellular Intercept Systems' audio digital recording features are also user-friendly.
In other words, strong text decryption and speech intercept audio recording.
Budget-unfriendly but user-friendly At least in terms of their usage by law enforcement, some of these solutions may cost up to $1 million.
But, SIM readers? Look it up on Google or eBay. a much lower cost. Most of the time, less than a tank of gas.