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Stalker remotely controls family cellphones, even when they're off - Engadget
by skullaria at 7:16 pm EDT, Jun 26, 2007 |
I hate cellphones. This is why I don't carry one. THey make me paranoid. |
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RE: Stalker remotely controls family cellphones, even when they're off - Engadget
by Catonic at 2:28 pm EDT, Jun 27, 2007 |
skullaria wrote:
I hate cellphones. This is why I don't carry one. THey make me paranoid.
My relationship with cellphones is pretty simple to understand; it's a lot like what Kubrick must have been thinking when he wrote the title "Doctor Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb." |
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Stalker remotely controls family cellphones, even when they're off - Engadget
by Shannon at 10:42 am EDT, Jun 26, 2007 |
To use a TV news cliche, it's like a horror movie come true: three families from Fircrest in Washington State are being harassed by a unknown individual, who somehow has the power to turn cellphones on, send messages, and change ringtones. Over the last few months, the families have had calls that threaten death and violence against them, calls that tell the people what they're doing at that time, and calls that originate from the cellphones of other members of the family. In one case, the stalker changed the ringtone of a phone to say "answer your phone." According to one James M. Atkinson, an apparent expert in these matters who used to provide the CIA with advice in counterintelligence, the technical profficiency to pull off this level of stalking isn't that high: if the FBI can do it, why not some anti-social kid, right?
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