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“These guys are bugging their own office, essentially,” security consultant Doug Shields told United Press International.
He said that, for a recent client, he had used an inexpensive commercial scanner capable of monitoring frequencies in the 900 MHz and 1.2 GHz ranges, which is where many of the popular hands-free headsets operate.
He said the scanner could hear conversations inside buildings as far as 600 feet away. “Sometimes, when the other party has hung up, the wireless connection remains open and you can hear what (the party at your end) is saying afterwards…”
Jack Johnson, former chief security officer for the Department of Homeland Security…told UPI that, in general when it came to new technology, “ease -of-use considerations tend to trump security.”
“It’s not until after the technologies are in use that we realize the vulnerabilities,” he said.
All together, now: “There is no patch for stupidity!”
#1, pedro, absolutely, especially after “spygate.”
Did you notice that during the Super Bowl all comms looked like they were hard wired?
#2,
we had that conversation in Cagematch..
To the comment about NO PATCH..
There is one..
Weighs 6lbs…
Its called a BRICK.
I think god-like, high-powered, super-intelligent, multi-millionaire CEOs broadcasting their own telephone calls and office conversations to anyone who cares to listen to them should qualify for a ‘group-type’ Ultimate King Kahuna Moron Award.
@Cinaedh
Rules don’t apply to the idiots in charge.
#5 Improbus
…but we can still give them things, right? I was thinking of the French Revolution and haircuts…
@Cinaedh
Your a romantic … aren’t you?
#7 Improbus
“Tis a far, far better thing I do now than I have ever done.”
Yeah, kind of a bloodthirsty Romantic but a Romantic nonetheless.
Nor are wireless standard telephones at home. I had a wireless intercom system in my house, cheap radio Shack shit, and I was constantly picking up neighbors phone conversations at 2AM.
Yeah, pretty damn stupid. I’ve had encoded portable phones for over 10 years.
Here’s your
signaward:“Wireless phone headsets of the kind beloved by Wall Street executives and high-end law firms can be bugged by simple off-the-shelf radio scanners unless they are encrypted.”
Noooo, really? You mean that as long as you catch the signal, you can hear it if unencrypted? WOW! [/sarcasm]
This is a no shit sherlock situation. And why the military doesn’t just use encryption, but also frequency hopping.
#12 pedro
“…out of curiosity, was him a Darwin Award nominee?”
If you think about it, one award might follow the other but I’m pretty sure, to win a Darwin Award, you have to die before you reproduce – or at least stupidly lose your reproductive organs.