[wplug] US Gov warns of id theft in China

[Christine Rial]

Interesting
    One time I had a very nasty problem with a customer phone.  Eventfully I 
was relay up to second level support and while they were doing their magic 
they had be not only turn off the phone but also take the battery out.  I 
asked him, if the phone was turn off the transmitter was turn off.  He never 
gave me a full responds to my question but indicated that things were still 
working with the phone turn off.  Maybe that's why your battery dies in less 
than a month even with your phone turn off.

    The funny thing this morning, is that I got a email from Google Ad 
Words.  Since I don't advertise with Google I was wondering why I got this, 
so I do what I always do when I get one of these messages.  I take a look at 
the message raw headers and source.  It was interesting if you had click the 
link to mange your Google account, you would have been redirected to a site 
in China.

    Ever wonder that the next world war will be like?  With all this tech 
support going overseas I think the next war will be all those foreign IT 
people just doing some clicking and shut this whole country down.  No more 
phones, Internet, that latest software upgrade will just wipe out our whole 
infrastructure.  It always amazing me on how much of our information is now 
in foreign hands.
Christine



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DK" <wplug at curlynoodle.com>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 9:01 AM
Subject: [wplug] US Gov warns of id theft in China


> http://kdka.com/national/china.olympics.pda.2.790453.html
>
> This story claims that phones, Blackberries, and other mobile devices
> with wireless can be remotely "powered-on" and their microphone
> activated.
>
> Anyone heard of such a vulnerability with mobile devices?  Seems to me
> that when a mobile phone is OFF, the RF transceiver is inoperative
> therefore will not receive any signal.
>
> I could understand that most PDA phones do not actually turn off, but
> rather enter a suspend-state and could be vulnerable.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Dave
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