Is it possible that my text message was intercepted by someone else?

Although this type of attack is possible, the attacker must overcome some important technical problems to succeed.

You can eavesdrop on phones, intercept short messages and sell "mobile phone bugs" online.

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August 9, 2006 12:2 1 Heilongjiang Daily

Our reporter Li Jian.

A mobile phone can eavesdrop on the phones of six people and receive messages from each other. On the morning of the 8th, Mr. Tong, a citizen of Harbin, told this newspaper that he found a mobile phone bug shop on an e-commerce website and sold mobile phone bugs to buyers at the price of 1.5 million yuan to 20,000 yuan.

According to Mr. Tong, at that time, he just wanted to see the market of mobile phones and accidentally entered a small shop on the website. After opening the webpage, he found that the store actually sold "mobile phone bugs" publicly. After reading the product description, he felt very scared, because the product description said that a mobile phone bug could eavesdrop on the phones of six people. If such a mobile phone bug widely enters the society, then everyone's conversation will not be made public, and there will be no privacy at all.

The reporter searched for "mobile phone bug" on the Internet, and there were more than two million related web pages. In a mobile phone bug shop, the reporter saw that the seller posted 10 different kinds of mobile phone bugs. The advertisement said, "This device can lock the tracked target in the range of tens of meters or several meters. Simple operation. Just select the special function key of the mobile phone, enter the target number, and then enter the city name, and you can enter the close-range tracking. According to the red navigation line on the mobile phone screen, the device stores the latest national satellite electronic map. For long-distance tracking, you can enter the map of China, and then gradually enter close-range tracking according to the city pointed by navigation line. This product is the most advanced palm tracker at present. You can choose different devices to adapt to multiple countries. No matter where the person you are looking for is, you can find him as long as you know his phone number, which can be used as a mobile phone. " It is not difficult to find that "mobile phone bug" is a mobile phone, but it has more eavesdropping function than ordinary mobile phones. As long as the phone number of the person who wants to eavesdrop is set in the mobile phone, the eavesdropping function will automatically start when the other party calls, and the total memory of the other party can be added. At the same time, using this "bug" can also receive messages from the other party.

Lawyer Yi of Heilongjiang Jinrongcheng Law Firm said that the emergence of "mobile phone bugs" seriously violated citizens' privacy rights. I hope that major commercial websites will strengthen their management and delete relevant advertisements as soon as they are found. I hope that netizens will not buy it and report it in time after finding bad information.