As if it were not easy enough to violate the trust of your mate with cheap surveillance equipment of all stripes, many companies are actively promoting software that can be covertly installed on a cell phone. After that happens to your mobile phone, the thing makes you an open book.
That said, if you’ve got to do a little snooping (and the target of your surveillance happens to use a Series 60 phone), it seems like a tool like FlexiSPY PRO might just do the trick. It’s got live phone monitoring for listening in on conversations in progress, email and MMS header logging, SMS logging, call history, duration, and activity meters, all for the low, low price of $150.
Luckily, the FlexiSPY software has already been classified as a trojan horse and added to F-Secure’s virus database. So, make sure you’re checking out what’s going on with your mobile phone, especially if you have serious trust issues in your relationship.
Here’s another case that demonstrates just how easy it is to violate someone’s privacy with a cell phone camera. While the devices are generally banned from locker rooms and other areas where people may be undressing, these enterprising high school students in San Diego demonstrated that anyone wearing a skirt is susceptible to the video voyeurism exploit known as “upskirting”.
A group of Hoover High School students is getting expelled because they used a cell phone to record underneath a teacher’s skirt and then shared the video among students, said the president of the San Diego Education Association, which represents teachers.
Not sure if this was a “hot for teacher” situation or these kids just wanted to humiliate the woman, but I’m sure they accomplished the latter. The ironic thing is the district would not discuss the incident or the punishment meted to the students, citing privacy concerns. How nice for them.