New Hack Pinpoints Cell Phone User's Location, Personal And Business Relationships

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Researchers demonstrate a technique that exploits the cell phone infrastructure to compromise cell user's privacy

Turns out you don't even need a GPS to track a mobile phone user's whereabouts and glean her movements and interactions: Researchers have discovered a way to use information from the GSM mobile infrastructure to track down someone and even listen in on her voicemail messages and calls.

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