Everyone who is involved in technology will have noticed at one point or another advertisements showing ways to track mobile phones. In Greece there are at least 2 websites who offer the expertise and software to track any mobile you desire.
So, yes, it is not just the National Security Service (NSA) that spies smartphones. Many use sophisticated tracking software to access the communications of their lovers, their children or their opponents.
According to a new study, hundreds of people had some form of surveillance software installed on their phones.
The applications these are not malicious downloaded from some specially designed website that was meant to trick their owners. It's software spyware commercially available and anyone with physical access to the device can install it. In this way he can access every text message, phone call and in some cases, he can monitor calls in real time.
Οι περισσότερες από τις εγκαταστάσεις ήταν πιθανά πραγματοποιούνται από συζύγους και τους ιδιωτικούς ντετέκτιβ, σύμφωνα με τον Michael Shaulov, Διευθύνων Σύμβουλος της Lacoon Mobile Security, που εδρεύει στο Σαν Φρανσίσκο. Παρά το γεγονός ότι ο αριθμός των τηλεφώνων με λογισμικό υποκλοπής ήταν σχετικά μικρό, ο Shaulov αναμένει ότι ο αριθμός θα αυξηθεί.
Lacoon, who conducted the survey, founded 2011 from former members of the Israeli Defense Forces. During the survey, Lacoon watched wireless traffic to determine how many devices communicate with servers known to be associated with companies spyware.
Nearly half of them were associated with SpyToMobile, which markets the application monitoring. While it's not generally illegal to spy on phones that are yours, things get a bit murky when the spying takes place on phones that are under the same network as, say, your partner's.
In the company's terms of service, you indicate that users must own the phones that use the software, or that application users must have written permission from the phone holder. SpyToMobile reported to Mashable that all users should agree to the terms of service and that they have suspended accounts after they have been found to use the application without the owner's permission.
