Anything divulged inside a building or a private car is potentially open to an extraordinary array of eletronic bugging devices or telephone intercept systems, reports The Times Online. Bugging is a fine art, and the technology has leapt forward in recent years.The latest electronic listening device is known as the GSM bug. Michael Marks of Spymaster, a company that supplies surveillance equipment, told The Times: “With one of these new bugs, all you have to do is place it covertly under someone’s desk. It’s like a miniature cellular phone. You can ring it from thousands of miles away, it answers silently and you can listen in on conversations. The GSM bug could be in an office in London but the person listening to the conversations could be in Australia.”
Terrorists are fully aware that encrypted mobile phones are vulnerable to eavesdropping by the authorities. “If you can acquire the service number of the mobile phone, what’s called the IMEI number, located just under the battery, you can tap in to people's conversations,” Mr Marks said.
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Technical surveillance countermeasures is one of the topics addressed in the Information Security module of Security Management Stage 1, a university-accredited course which takes place 31 March – 11 April 2008. Contact Janet for details.
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Technical surveillance countermeasures is one of the topics addressed in the Information Security module of Security Management Stage 1, a university-accredited course which takes place 31 March – 11 April 2008. Contact Janet for details.
