State-of-the-art listening system for GSM phones

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Ultramodern system for listening to GSM phones Ultramodern system for listening to GSM phones GSS ProA - GSM interception system GSS-ProA system - the best system to intercept and listen to GSM directly from the radio broadcast from all currently available in the world. No passive interception system has such capabilities for interception and listening. The system is completely invisible and undetectable, has high performance, has the ability to further upgrade, multi-channel interception of cell phones and recording both information about the conversations and the conversations themselves. The system is not only a device for intercepting and listening to GSM network signals, but also has a built-in complex RF locator using the triangulation method that determines the location of an object with an accuracy of several meters, close to GPS. The GSS-ProA system is capable of intercepting calls on GSM phones around the world - in 900/1800/1900 MHz networks. It intercepts simultaneously the signal of the base station and the mobile station independently of each other. Automatically or manually, a conversation will be recorded between two phones of objects at the same time, and the conversation will be saved as a standard WAV file. Features: Completely passive (not detectable) interception of GSM negotiations from the air. Interception and listening to encrypted voice channels with algorithms A5.1, A5.2, A5.3. Removing the key Ki (Capture Ki) from the air at a distance of 4 miles. New opportunity! All actions are performed unnoticed by the telephone of the listening object and the GSM network operator. Automatically intercepts calls to / from an object located in a special list. Intercepting and listening to calls made abroad. New opportunity! The basic version supports 4 full duplex channels. This means that you can listen to up to 4 phones at the same time. Interception of SMS, fax and E-mail New feature! Built-in positioning system even inside buildings with an accuracy of several meters, similar to GPS New feature! Built-in voice recognition system (Military technology of RF triangulation) Automatic or manual scanning of the channel frequency range for active connections Setting operating modes and tracking parameters Auto or manual changing the parameters for monitoring the signal from the base station to the subscriber Save settings to the hard drive with the possibility of their subsequent loading Recording conversations to the hard drive or external media. Automatic tracking of objects from the list. Ability to listen and record conversations in real time. The ability to maintain and display data transmission protocols at base stations, as well as information about monitored subscribers. Displays the current status of the receiving channels (presence of synchronization, signal strength and strength, activity in time slots). Typical tracking radius is 1-5 km when using improved antennas. The device will automatically connect to the cell phone of the object as soon as it starts a conversation, immediately after entering the following numbers into the database: a. TMSI (Temporary International User Identification Number), b. IMSA (International Subscriber Identification Number) and c. IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identifier) Up to 700,000 numbers can be recorded in the system with assignment of various priority to them. The system works both in non-encrypted and encrypted GSM networks, regardless of the mobile operator. Accurate location of the object by cell phone, including inside the building and on a specific floor Using specially developed software, GSS-Pro A allows the operator to determine the location of the tracking object on an international scale. This was made possible by triangulating the location of the cell phone relative to base stations. In cities where there are a large number of base stations, the accuracy is 2 meters. Beyond the city line, where the density of the base stations is less, the accuracy is 100-250 meters. Management functions: Creating a control database Creating a voice channel database Entering Ki in the object database (target number) Observing and reporting activity of objects Automatic or manual control and monitoring Tracking the inclusion of voice channels Communication with various computers over the network Analysis of information passing through controlled channels Saving sound files from sound channels during a conversation Analysis of information passing through voice channels Processing of voice signals from voice Control channel digital tracking system calls and data GSS-ProA system is available in three configurations: portable or stationary 4, 20 or 100 full-duplex channel device for eavesdropping by a corresponding number of cellular phones simultaneously. Life in the cells Grigory Sanin, Alexander Zakharov ________________________________________ Today, a mobile phone is not only a means of communication, a camera or a video camera, but also a beacon (Photo: Pavel Markelov / Rodionova Publishing House / ITAR-TASS) A modern person himself, sometimes without suspecting it, is everywhere leaves traces - and it's not just about fingerprints. Almost every minute we leave electronic traces - when we call from a mobile phone, enter the Internet or insert a ticket into the metro turnstile. And these traces can be detected using various technical means. Experts note that all the high-profile crimes of recent times, including the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov, were investigated using billing, a system that records calls from mobile phones. Previously, the same technique was used during the Murovskaya operation to eliminate the Walnut-Medvedkovskaya organized crime group. So what is this very billing and will its widespread use be an interference in the personal lives of citizens? A subscriber is always available. A cell phone is one of the greatest inventions of mankind, which gave a person freedom of communication and movement. But at the same time, the mobile phone is an excellent beacon that allows you to track any movement of the subscriber in space. The fact is that the entire territory covered by mobile communications is divided into cells equipped with their own towers or base stations. As an employee of the technical service of one of the Big Cell Three companies told Itogi, all the towers have a clear address. As a result, the technical information about a particular connection contains not only the telephone number of the subscriber with whom the owner of the “handset” has contacted, but also the address of the tower through which the connection was made. In addition, the so-called sector is also recorded - that is, information about where the caller was located relative to the tower (north, south, west or east). In addition, the technical capabilities of the equipment of cellular companies make it possible to determine the signal strength, which in turn indicates where the subscriber was at the time of the conversation - on the street, in the car or in the building. By tracking the movement of the caller from one tower to another, you can draw up a route to follow with an error of up to 300-500 meters. The latest example of the successful use of the billing system is the detention of alleged killers of the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Andrei Kozlov. The police officers, having settled the procedural formalities, contacted all mobile operators and asked them for information about the zone of the base station where the crime scene was located. Then all phone numbers were received, the subscribers of which were in contact from this place. The work of identifying all the callers would take several months, however, the investigators were lucky - one of the killers, fearing that the customers of the crime would kill him, had pleaded guilty. True, by this time the detectives already had information that one of the subscribers who had contacted the place of the murder had previously lit up at the office of the Central Bank of Russia. That is, the criminal, with his sincere confession, was ahead of the police just a few days. Electronic Bloodhound Professionals claim that one call is enough for qualified operatives and "techies" to receive the information necessary to start an investigation. In this case, the process can not be stopped - the electronic bloodhound took the track. Even if the suspect makes only one call, and then turns off the phone and gets rid of it, the place of the last connection, the number by which it was made, will be established. This means that the investigators will still be able to find witnesses to the conversation, establish who the call was to, and get a lot of important information that will bring them closer to identifying the caller. By the way, speaking of some positive developments in the investigation into the murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, one of the senior prosecutors, according to the Itogi data, had in mind the technical data of cellular communications that fell into the hands of the investigation. Cell towers are a kind of buoys that limit the areas within which users are located. Technical employees of cellular companies are able to determine the location of subscribers with an accuracy of several hundred meters (Photo: Vitaliy Belousov / ITAR-TASS) True, the detectives themselves admit that such efficiency is shown exclusively in the investigation of especially resonant crimes. In all other cases, the bureaucratic machine stalls, devouring precious time. In order for the mobile operator to provide information about the owner of a particular phone and information about his contacts and movements, the sanction of the investigator of the prosecutor's office is necessary. “Within the framework of the implementation of the Federal Law“ On Communications ”, mobile operators are obliged to provide information exclusively to the subject of operational investigative activities, the preliminary investigation, inquiry and prosecutor’s bodies upon written request, drawn up in accordance with the standards established by law,” said Ekaterina Osadchaya, representative of VimpelCom, “ Information is transmitted only personally to an authorized law enforcement officer, because we work with personal data of subscribers and other confidential information Therefore, the company pays serious attention to the issue of protection against internal and external information threats. " According to the representative of VimpelCom, access to the billing system is strictly limited, all calls to the database are recorded and monitored by security departments. According to some reports, today one Moscow investigator is in the process of conducting up to 80 (!) Criminal cases simultaneously. With such a workload, prosecutors simply physically do not have time to sign all the papers submitted to them for consideration. But even if the sanction is received, the operative sometimes has to wait several days until his request will be taken into work by the security personnel of the cellular company. Well, if you need to "break through" one number, and if there are, for example, a dozen of them ... All this takes time. Under favorable circumstances, one request is processed within three days. And then the fun begins. The operative receives dozens of finely written pages in his hands, which must be processed in order to establish the closest contacts of the subscriber, his movements, and so on. Theoretically, this should be done by the Office of Operational Investigation Information (SARI) of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, but in many cases the investigators undertake to analyze the details of the subscriber they are interested in. Someone with multi-colored markers, a pencil and a calculator, and the most technically advanced ones - with the help of the special Cross software. By the way, it is installed in the WORI and created specifically for the analysis of telephone prints. According to experts, this is still a very crude software product that makes a lot of mistakes. This is the problem - the IDF is overloaded, the operatives are trying to do something themselves, but this does not always work out. There is, however, a special program that qualitatively and quickly analyzes telephone prints of telephone conversations. It is used with pleasure by Interpol, Europol and the FBI in their work. There is only one caveat - installing such software on one computer costs 7 thousand euros. Calculators, markers and pencils, even taken together, are significantly cheaper ... Private billing. Currently, information taken from mobile phones is more actively used by private detectives. It was they who were the first to begin to master this segment of the investigation. Of course, there is a whole bunch of violations of articles of the Criminal Code, and therefore the information is well paid. As one of the private detectives told Itogi, today there are two ways to get a printout of the contacts of a subscriber of interest. The first is to directly buy it from "your" people in a cellular company. However, to do this is quite problematic - the security services of mobile operators are constantly struggling with such leaks. Here it will be appropriate to recall one funny story. As you know, billing data is the main tool for collecting information about adultery. So, having obtained irrefutable evidence of her husband’s infidelity, one woman in tears threw her husband a telephone printout of telephone conversations in her face and slammed the door. The exposed womanizer took the details, went to his cell company and made a terrible scandal. As a result, the company's security service very quickly calculated the mole, and the printout channel for the whole detective agency was closed. Since then, detectives have not given anyone the fruits of their labor ... On average, today, getting the details of one telephone number (on the professional slang - “detail”) costs $ 500. Its analysis - the establishment of contacts of the subscriber, his movement, etc. - at least 1,5 thousand dollars. However, in order to interest a person in a cellular company, a detective must constantly request a large number of numbers, and this does not always happen. It was with the help of billing that the MUR detectives established a route along which the murderers of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Andrei Kozlov fled from the scene. This clue turned out to be enough to solve one of the most high-profile crimes of recent times. Therefore, there is another way - to ask acquaintances of operatives to include in the list of mobile phone numbers submitted for punching and numbers that are of interest to a private detective. However, for the reasons mentioned above, this process can be delayed, which means that the detective will lose time and, possibly, will miss a profit. However, detectives say that getting information every day is becoming more difficult. Cellular companies are increasingly focusing on protecting information about their customers. “The issues of protecting the personal data of our customers are one of the priority areas in the framework of the activities for servicing our subscribers,” official representative of MTS Kirill Alyavdin told Itogi. In addition, according to a company representative, the protection of customers from unauthorized listening during conversations is provided within the framework of the standard GSM cellular communications, which provides streaming encoding of voice and data during their transmission. It would be a desire Alas, as often happens, modern technical means are used not only by detectives, but also by those whom they catch. Law enforcement authorities have information that the billing system is used by attackers in the preparation of serious crimes - murders, kidnappings or major robberies. By the way, as a rule, former special services officers who have operational search activities are doing this. In the investigation of some high-profile contract killings, law enforcement officers found printouts of details of the victims' cell phones from the performers and customers of the crimes. When asked by the Itogi correspondent whether it was possible to somehow defend himself against billing tracking, an employee of a large mobile company answered in all seriousness: "You can. Never use a mobile phone." I wonder how many people today will be able to follow this advice? There is, however, another way - to communicate exclusively using SMS messages or to ensure that the conversation does not exceed two seconds. Of great importance is also the choice of mobile operator. Some of them use base stations covering a fairly large area, which makes it difficult to detect the subscriber. However, employees of cellular companies and field investigators acknowledge that the list of modern tracking equipment is far from being exhausted by the methods described above. The main thing is that technical capabilities are reinforced by the desire and professional motivation of investigators and investigators to solve crimes. And not only resonant. With the participation of Stepan Krivosheev Source: RESULTS

 

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A computer fakes your voice in 40 hours Natural Voices, developed in AT's laboratory American scientists who have developed technology for synthesizing human voices are now working to protect this technology from criminal use. According to New Scientists, the Natural Voices program, developed at AT&T's lab, can speak in any voice, based on its prior recording. The program copies the intonation and characteristic features of pronunciation characteristic of the sample. The creation of each new synthesized voice takes from 10 to 40 hours. First, a person whose voice they want to translate into computer form is recorded in a special studio. Then the voice is digitized and analyzed. The results are input to the synthesis program. While in the artificial voice reproduced by the computer, there are still some traces by which it can be distinguished from a natural voice. However, the creators of the technology hope that in just a few years they will be able to accurately recreate any voice recorded. The program is designed to work in call centers, as part of text-to-speech software, as well as in automatic voice news feeds. You can think of other options for using this technology: for example, creating talking virtual copies of such famous people as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Although the technology is far from perfect now, developers are already worried that it can be used for criminal purposes. Quite often, detectives play up, for example, the idea of a phone call by which the victim is called to the crime scene or the main witness is eliminated. Usually in such cases, the case is entrusted to people who imitate voices, or the criminal himself tries to change his voice with a handkerchief. With the advent of voice synthesis technology, detectives and criminals will have new opportunities, and the police will have an extra headache. Recall also that the famous hacker Kevin Mitnik got access to computer systems of various companies, just by calling the company’s reception room under the guise of one of the employees and asking for passwords. Obviously, the voice fake system in this case is very useful: you can ask for the password in the voice of the company president. Not to mention the wide possibilities that open up for manufacturers of audio compromising. Therefore, AT&T is currently developing protections for the new technology. In particular, it is planned to create artificial voice recognition systems based on specially built-in “watermarks” in the form of certain signals that are not audible to the human ear, but can be tracked by special detectors. With their help, it will be possible to determine whether a real person is talking to you on the phone, or is it a synthesized voice. Source: Netoscope

 

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Voice in the crowd Voice cleaner. The new technology from SpetsLab allows you to hear each and every one of them ... Having created a huge number of video processing technologies, the programmers of the SpetsLab Research Institute switched to sound. Fortunately, the new digitization chip used on GOAL v9 boards allows you to work wonders. There are many algorithms for cleaning the voice of noise, but so far no one (according to information from well-known open sources) has learned how to distinguish one voice from a joint conversation of others. When several people speak, in the recording, as a rule, we can hear only the loudest voice. And if they speak at the same level, then generally no one. To highlight the voice of a specific person in the crowd has so far been an unresolved task. The time has come to bring security technology to the modern level. Strictly speaking, this is ordinary mathematics. When installing several microphones at different ends of the room, by the difference component, you can accurately clean out the voice of an individual person, even if many people speak all together. Three applied mathematical principles allow not only to remove noise by cutting out the same components on all microphones, but also to selectively tune to a specific sound source depending on its location with respect to recording microphones. Already two microphones installed in opposite corners allow you to select one person out of three simultaneously speaking in a 10x12 m room. Each next microphone increases the capabilities by 4 times. (Such indicators were obtained in laboratory conditions.) Theoretically, several dozen microphones installed at the station can record speech with listening in selective mode "to understand everyone!" To tune to the sound source of interest, you need to specify the coordinate relative to the installed microphones, which requires the installation of two cameras. A longer way, you can perform a normal search of the frequency components in each algorithm. But the automatic search for the voice of interest has already been tested, provided that there is a sample of his speech. In the future, it is planned to use other options. The main thing is the beginning of a new useful function. About its practical application can be said only after testing at specific facilities. Source: Astera

 

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"Bugs" from "sims" The "K" Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs closed an online store selling home-made listening devices - they were built into various household appliances. The owner of the store can get three years in prison for this kind of trade, they write "Vedomosti" ... The bugs were placed, for example, in teapots and coffee makers. And the employee of management K, making a test purchase, acquired a tee bug. The device was bought for 10,000 rubles, and this indicates that the sale of camouflaged spies is a fairly profitable enterprise. In the past month, according to the press service of the K management, the store sold at least ten such devices at prices ranging from $ 100 to $ 400. In handicraft production of bugs, simple SIM cards from mobile phones were involved. To start listening, you had to call the number assigned to the card. However, as you know from Art. 138 of part 3 of the Criminal Code, the manufacture and sale of technical equipment that can be used to secretly obtain information is prohibited and punishable. In this regard, the inventor and seller of the above devices faces three years in prison. His identity and the address of the closed site by department K were not disclosed. Source: Revera

 

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Your mobile phone can be listened for a thousand dollars Your mobile phone can be listened for a thousand dollars Who has access to correspondence and conversations over cellular communications .. Mobile phones are a very personal thing. We do not give his number to everyone. In some cases, we do not allow pets at home. But in fact, the privacy of our conversations is very arbitrary. The company of each mobile operator has an electronic diary of our negotiations and text messages. Moreover, like in Europe, the base of each subscriber is stored for two years. Who has access to our chatter with friends or a quarrel between his wife? Who can find out everything about us, down to the intimate details? The Komsomol member decided to find out how wiretapping of mobile residents of Russia is being conducted today. Cell evidence Hollywood has long and tastefully exploited the theme of electronic control over its citizens. They are used by specially trained FBI agents and other spies. In Russia, nothing was heard about such methods. And only recently the assumption that any of the Russians can leave completely readable traces for specialists has been confirmed. Especially if you have a mobile phone in your pocket. It was cell phone calls that helped the investigation identify the suspects in the murder of the First Deputy Central Bank of Russia Andrei Kozlov. The prosecutor’s office asked the mobile operators for a negotiation base that people in the area of the attack conducted an hour or two before the murder. Received a clear calculation - and phone numbers, and last names, and information on whom the phones are registered. So the first thread was obtained in the disclosure of a high-profile crime. It turns out that at any time you can get a printout of any of our conversation? Total control The secret services do not hide the fact that in our country SORM has been operating since the 90s - a system of operational-search measures. In fact, it is a huge and complex mechanism designed to control telephone lines, mobile communication systems and even the Internet. Today, telephone exchanges do not receive licenses if they do not install special equipment for listening. We called the press service of VimpelCom (Beeline trademark) and asked: what can we learn about our personal lives using mobile information? - We comply with the Law on Communications. It states that we are obliged to provide the information necessary for the investigation. But we can’t talk about all the technology. Our specialists may have problems with the special services, - cut off in the company. Well, to solve a crime or save someone’s life, one can sacrifice a sense of privacy. But once the base is there, it can be used for other purposes. Wiretap for money On his page on the Internet, a private security agency, let's call him Sherkhan, offered private search services. “We can monitor the object of interest to you - there is no problem,” we were pleased. - No, we need to listen to telephone conversations on a mobile phone. Then, on the other end of the wire, our consultant stumbled and asked to come. At the office, the KP correspondent honestly laid out a banal legend: the wife is acting suspiciously, has she got a lover? - Okay, we will help you. A thousand dollars - and you will receive a printout of conversations that your spouse conducted at the time of interest to you from your mobile phone and SMS texts. - Yes? But such negotiations are kept secret by mobile operators ... - This is not your concern anymore. It remains only to guess who will leave part of the requested thousand: a mole from the company of a mobile operator or police, so that the mobile number of interest to us could be heard in the interests of the investigation. They listened and will listen! Today, wiretapping technique does not require such human and technical resources as in Soviet times. A few powerful filters are enough to catch keywords in a stream of mobile chatter: bomb, explosion, terrorist attack, etc. Recall that three years ago after a terrorist attack at a rock festival in the capital Tushin, the authorities urgently canceled the beer festival in Luzhniki. According to unofficial information, because of suspicions that explosions are being prepared there too. The FSB received such data while listening to talks from mobile phones. Another thing is competitors, blackmailers or just suspicious spouses? There is no desire to share with them private information that can be used against us. To our complaints, all the interviewed employees of cellular companies gave one piece of advice: don't talk! ONLY FIGURES 142 million people in Russia today use mobile phones. HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW The owner of the mobile phone can contact the telecom operator and get a complete database where it will be accurate to the second where he called from his phone, how long the conversation lasted, and where all SMS and MMS messages were sent. OPINION OF THE SPECIAL SERVICES EMPLOYEE - No one conducts total surveillance of citizens. This requires incredible resources - human, technical and financial, - surprised Nikolai PAVLOV, an employee of one of the federal special services. - When a person is suspected of committing a crime, a serious or especially serious one, then yes, the special services can connect to his phone. But only with the approval of the court. - And if you need to urgently connect, and the judge is sleeping? - Connect. But according to the law, within 24 hours, an intelligence officer must still receive permission to wiretap in court. And to say that all negotiations on mobile phones are recorded in order to listen later is nonsense. There is no memory of computer systems or specialists. BTW Communication - with holes You can listen to telephone conversations in GSM networks without the help of operators. Three years ago, Israeli scientists said that they could find a serious mistake in the code that almost all modern mobile phones use. Listen to any negotiations really. True, with special equipment. But whom when did it stop? Representatives of the GSM Association hastened to assure that the error does not affect the new generation of mobile phones, the so-called G3 standard. They use a new encoding. But who can argue that over the past time and experienced hackers have not found a hole in it? In addition, household equipment that can connect to cellular and cordless phones can be bought on any radio market. DO NOT CHAT! The British Prince Charles recently once again disgraced. For a month, the newspaper News of the world published so secret details from the life of the heir to the British crown that Scotland Yard suspected something was amiss. The detectives discovered that Clarence House, the official residence of the prince, was literally stuffed with bugs of wiretapping. At first, everyone thought that this was the work of terrorists. And soon one of the correspondents of the indicated tabloid was arrested. Source: Komsomolskaya Pravda

 

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Life in the cells All the high-profile crimes of recent times were investigated using billing - a system that tracks calls from mobile phones. According to the operatives, today it’s possible to solve almost any crime with it ... Grigory Sanin, Alexander Zakharov Today, a mobile phone is not only a means of communication, a camera or a video camera, but also a beacon. A modern person, without suspecting it sometimes, leaves traces everywhere - and it's not just about fingerprints. Almost every minute we leave electronic traces - when we call from a mobile phone, enter the Internet or insert a ticket into the metro turnstile. And these traces can be detected using various technical means. Experts note that all the high-profile crimes of recent times, including the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov, were investigated using billing, a system that records calls from mobile phones. Previously, the same technique was used during the Murovskaya operation to eliminate the Walnut-Medvedkovskaya organized crime group. So what is this very billing and will its widespread use be an interference in the personal lives of citizens? A subscriber is always available. A cell phone is one of the greatest inventions of mankind, which gave a person freedom of communication and movement. But at the same time, the mobile phone is an excellent beacon that allows you to track any movement of the subscriber in space. The fact is that the entire territory covered by mobile communications is divided into cells equipped with their own towers or base stations. As an employee of the technical service of one of the Big Cell Three companies told Itogi, all the towers have a clear address. As a result, the technical information about a particular connection contains not only the telephone number of the subscriber with whom the owner of the “handset” has contacted, but also the address of the tower through which the connection was made. In addition, the so-called sector is also recorded - that is, information about where the caller was located relative to the tower (north, south, west or east). In addition, the technical capabilities of the equipment of cellular companies make it possible to determine the signal strength, which in turn indicates where the subscriber was at the time of the conversation - on the street, in the car or in the building. By tracking the movement of the caller from one tower to another, you can draw up a route to follow with an error of up to 300-500 meters. The latest example of the successful use of the billing system is the detention of alleged killers of the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Andrei Kozlov. The police officers, having settled the procedural formalities, contacted all mobile operators and asked them for information about the zone of the base station where the crime scene was located. Then all phone numbers were received, the subscribers of which were in contact from this place. The work of identifying all the callers would take several months, however, the investigators were lucky - one of the killers, fearing that the customers of the crime would kill him, had pleaded guilty. True, by this time the detectives already had information that one of the subscribers who had contacted the place of the murder had previously lit up at the office of the Central Bank of Russia. That is, the criminal, with his sincere confession, was ahead of the police just a few days. Electronic Bloodhound Professionals claim that one call is enough for qualified operatives and "techies" to receive the information necessary to start an investigation. In this case, the process can not be stopped - the electronic bloodhound took the track. Even if the suspect makes only one call, and then turns off the phone and gets rid of it, the place of the last connection, the number by which it was made, will be established. This means that the investigators will still be able to find witnesses to the conversation, establish who the call was to, and get a lot of important information that will bring them closer to identifying the caller. By the way, speaking of some positive developments in the investigation into the murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, one of the senior prosecutors, according to the Itogi data, had in mind the technical data of cellular communications that fell into the hands of the investigation. Cell towers are a kind of buoys that limit the areas within which users are located. Technical employees of cellular companies are able to determine the location of subscribers with an accuracy of several hundred meters (Photo: Vitaliy Belousov / ITAR-TASS) True, the detectives themselves admit that such efficiency is shown exclusively in the investigation of especially resonant crimes. In all other cases, the bureaucratic machine stalls, devouring precious time. In order for the mobile operator to provide information about the owner of a particular phone and information about his contacts and movements, the sanction of the investigator of the prosecutor's office is necessary. “Within the framework of the implementation of the Federal Law“ On Communications ”, mobile operators are obliged to provide information exclusively to the subject of operational investigative activities, the preliminary investigation, inquiry and prosecutor’s bodies upon written request, drawn up in accordance with the standards established by law,” said Ekaterina Osadchaya, representative of VimpelCom, “ Information is transmitted only personally to an authorized law enforcement officer, because we work with personal data of subscribers and other confidential information Therefore, the company pays serious attention to the issue of protection against internal and external information threats. " According to the representative of VimpelCom, access to the billing system is strictly limited, all calls to the database are recorded and monitored by security departments. According to some reports, today one Moscow investigator is in the process of conducting up to 80 (!) Criminal cases simultaneously. With such a workload, prosecutors simply physically do not have time to sign all the papers submitted to them for consideration. But even if the sanction is received, the operative sometimes has to wait several days until his request will be taken into work by the security personnel of the cellular company. Well, if you need to "break through" one number, and if there are, for example, a dozen of them ... All this takes time. Under favorable circumstances, one request is processed within three days. And then the fun begins. The operative receives dozens of finely written pages in his hands, which must be processed in order to establish the closest contacts of the subscriber, his movements, and so on. Theoretically, this should be done by the Office of Operational Investigation Information (SARI) of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, but in many cases the investigators undertake to analyze the details of the subscriber they are interested in. Someone with multi-colored markers, a pencil and a calculator, and the most technically advanced ones - with the help of the special Cross software. By the way, it is installed in the WORI and created specifically for the analysis of telephone prints. According to experts, this is still a very crude software product that makes a lot of mistakes. This is the problem - the IDF is overloaded, the operatives are trying to do something themselves, but this does not always work out. There is, however, a special program that qualitatively and quickly analyzes telephone prints of telephone conversations. It is used with pleasure by Interpol, Europol and the FBI in their work. There is only one caveat - installing such software on one computer costs 7 thousand euros. Calculators, markers and pencils, even taken together, are significantly cheaper ... Private billing. Currently, information taken from mobile phones is more actively used by private detectives. It was they who were the first to begin to master this segment of the investigation. Of course, there is a whole bunch of violations of articles of the Criminal Code, and therefore the information is well paid. As one of the private detectives told Itogi, today there are two ways to get a printout of the contacts of a subscriber of interest. The first is to directly buy it from "your" people in a cellular company. However, to do this is quite problematic - the security services of mobile operators are constantly struggling with such leaks. Here it will be appropriate to recall one funny story. As you know, billing data is the main tool for collecting information about adultery. So, having obtained irrefutable evidence of her husband’s infidelity, one woman in tears threw her husband a telephone printout of telephone conversations in her face and slammed the door. The exposed womanizer took the details, went to his cell company and made a terrible scandal. As a result, the company's security service very quickly calculated the mole, and the printout channel for the whole detective agency was closed. Since then, detectives have not given anyone the fruits of their labor ... On average, today, getting the details of one telephone number (on the professional slang - “detail”) costs $ 500. Its analysis - the establishment of contacts of the subscriber, his movement, etc. - at least 1,5 thousand dollars. However, in order to interest a person in a cellular company, a detective must constantly request a large number of numbers, and this does not always happen. It was with the help of billing that the MUR detectives established a route along which the murderers of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Andrei Kozlov fled from the scene. This clue turned out to be enough to solve one of the most high-profile crimes of recent times. Therefore, there is another way - to ask acquaintances of operatives to include in the list of mobile phone numbers submitted for punching and numbers that are of interest to a private detective. However, for the reasons mentioned above, this process can be delayed, which means that the detective will lose time and, possibly, will miss a profit. However, detectives say that getting information every day is becoming more difficult. Cellular companies are increasingly focusing on protecting information about their customers. “The issues of protecting the personal data of our customers are one of the priority areas in the framework of the activities for servicing our subscribers,” official representative of MTS Kirill Alyavdin told Itogi. In addition, according to a company representative, the protection of customers from unauthorized listening during conversations is provided within the framework of the standard GSM cellular communications, which provides streaming encoding of voice and data during their transmission. It would be a desire Alas, as often happens, modern technical means are used not only by detectives, but also by those whom they catch. Law enforcement authorities have information that the billing system is used by attackers in the preparation of serious crimes - murders, kidnappings or major robberies. By the way, as a rule, former special services officers who have operational search activities are doing this. In the investigation of some high-profile contract killings, law enforcement officers found printouts of details of the victims' cell phones from the performers and customers of the crimes. When asked by the Itogi correspondent whether it was possible to somehow defend himself against billing tracking, an employee of a large mobile company answered in all seriousness: "You can. Never use a mobile phone." I wonder how many people today will be able to follow this advice? There is, however, another way - to communicate exclusively using SMS messages or to ensure that the conversation does not exceed two seconds. Of great importance is also the choice of mobile operator. Some of them use base stations covering a fairly large area, which makes it difficult to detect the subscriber. However, employees of cellular companies and field investigators acknowledge that the list of modern tracking equipment is far from being exhausted by the methods described above. The main thing is that technical capabilities are reinforced by the desire and professional motivation of investigators and investigators to solve crimes. And not only resonant. With the participation of Stepan Krivosheev Source: RESULTS

 

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VIRUSES LISTEN TO MOBILE Using mobile phones you can easily and unobstructed to listen to conversations that are conducted in the immediate vicinity. For this, as it turned out, it’s not even necessary to make a call or press something on the phone ... Media: US intelligence agencies use cellphone microphones to eavesdrop In case of operational necessity and with the approval of the court, the US FBI intelligence agency can secretly and without the knowledge of the owner of the mobile phone remotely turn on the microphone of this phone, turning it into a portable device for listening to conversations of both the owner and others. According to the ABC television company, information about the existence of a special secret program of the FBI became public as a result of its mention in a decision of the federal court of the southern district in New York, where the case of representatives of the famous mafia clan Genovese was considered. Court documents show that the FBI used a program called the roving bug to track the mafia, when remotely turned on suspects' mobile phones relayed all their conversations to an intelligence agency listening station. “The device functioned regardless of whether the phone was turned on or off, and intercepted conversations in a radius accessible to it, wherever it was located,” said federal judge Lewis Kaplan in his decision, who recognized the actions of the FBI in full compliance with American laws. The judge refused to satisfy the petition of the defendants' lawyers, who demanded that the materials of the mobile wiretapping be recognized as illegal and excluded from the evidence. The BBC reports that the FBI’s “mobile bug” program was launched on a court warrant after all other eavesdropping and surveillance methods failed. James Atkinson, an adviser on counterterrorism security, confirmed to television companies that "the FBI can access and manipulate mobile phones remotely without any physical contact." Atkins added, “Any recently made mobile phone has a built-in tracking device that allows eavesdroppers to locate someone’s location to within a few feet.” FBI spokesman James Margolis, who contacted the BBC, refused to report anything about the program, saying only that the FBI “does not discuss sensitive surveillance technologies,” but “any electronic surveillance is based on a court order and with constant legal control. " With reference to experts, the ABC reports that it is possible to prevent the use of a mobile phone as a device for remote “wiretapping” only by removing the battery from the switched off telephone. Source: RIA Novosti

 

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The FBI eavesdrops through the microphone of a cell phone It turns out that on a cell phone you can not only track where his owner has gone, but also eavesdrop on what he says, at least as CNet reports. It turns out that the FBI can use a microphone even to turn off the phone to listen to conversations. This technique was tested on two members of a criminal gang in their phones, the mobile operator quietly downloaded a special program for this. All the talks of the mafiosi were recorded at the same time, such software, experts said, is completely legal in the United States. Many phone models lend themselves to such an imperceptible change. Particularly dangerous in this regard are some models of Samsung and Motorola. The only way to avoid eavesdropping is not just to turn off the phone, but to remove the battery from it. Well, or not to conduct conversations on the phone and next to it that may interest the government. Source: Helpix.ru

 

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Mobile phones can spy on owners More precisely, with the help of mobile phones you can easily and unobtrusively listen to conversations that are conducted in the immediate vicinity. For this, as it turned out, it is not even necessary to make a call or press something on the phone. According to the DailyTech resource, the American FBI found a way to turn on almost any cell phone in listening mode without the knowledge of its owner. Cases of using Nextel phones for such operations have already been recorded, but it is alleged that the privacy of the owner of almost any phone is at risk. Of course, this requires the full cooperation of the mobile operator and the ignorance of the phone user, but is this really an obstacle for the special services. Big Brother from J. Orwell’s 1984 novel is becoming an increasingly real threat. Another feature of the new listening method is - and it sounds fantastic! the ability to use it even when the phone is off. More precisely, with a phone that “pretends to be turned off”, as was the case with Nextel devices on which firmware was installed, putting the phone in standby mode instead of turned off. Expectations of teams from the special services. Or, in the end, from hackers, because if the technology is available to the government and comes down to information operations only, it may soon be in the hands of attackers. Of course, the smarter the phone, the higher the likelihood of using it as a bug that you voluntarily carry with you. However, at the current rate of change in the fleet of mobile phones, soon almost everyone will be able to find mobile phones obedient to the government. Source: Techlabs.ru

 

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A bug that is always with you Igor Kuksov Published December 27, 2006, 2006, COMPUTERRA Publishing House | [url = http: //www.computerra.ru/] https://www.computerra.ru/ [/ url] Computerra Magazine | [url = http: //www.computerra.ru/] https://www.computerra.ru/ [/ url] You can always find this material at its permanent address: [DLMURL] http: //www.terralab. com / mobilis / 299694 / [/ DLMURL] Probably, everyone already knows about the ability of mobile operators to determine the geographic location of their subscribers (more precisely, their phones). Now on the Web they started talking about the fact that the arsenal of modern communication tools seems to contain an even more delicate function, allowing you to transmit sound “heard” by the microphone at any time. That is, the cell phone can imperceptibly broadcast to everyone around what these people around have the imprudence to talk about. Moreover, even if the phone was not initially trained in tracking the owner, the operator supposedly can correct this situation by downloading some secret software onto his mobile phone without the consent of the subscriber. In general, rumors about the ability of a cell phone to work as a listening device have been circulating for quite some time. But in early December, sensational information appeared about the use of this function by the American servants of the law during the investigation of the activities of members of the mafia clan. It should be noted that there is no direct evidence of the use of telephones as bugs that were not subjected to hardware interference, and all assumptions are based on indirect evidence. FBI agents tried to collect "incriminating evidence" on members of the criminal "family", but its members showed remarkable flair and every time they got off the hook. Disappointed in the traditional means of covert surveillance, the restless American “Chekists” secured a court order (the publication of this particular document contributed to the wide publicity of the story) and began to use the mafia’s cell phone to listen to, firsthand learning about their dirty tricks. Presumably, the Faebers have used the regular microphone of the cell phone; in addition, an undocumented function worked even when the unit was turned off. It is unlikely that the agents introduced some device into the mobile phone - this requires physical access to the object, and free space inside the case of a modern phone is not easy to find. Another circumstantial evidence is the following fact: in the court documents the phone number and cellular provider of the criminal are indicated, which is clearly unnecessary when using the hardware bug. Mobile operators and phone manufacturers have not commented on what happened, giving an extra reason for reflection to adherents of conspiracy theories. The “duplicity” of mobile phones, of course, stirred the public - the technology described is an ideal means of surveillance and espionage. Experts, as usual, disagreed about the fundamental possibility of covert listening. Say, a well-known specialist in the field of information technology Lauren Weinstein (Lauren Weinstein) does not doubt the existence of loopholes for special services in cellular networks. On his blog, Weinstein provides obvious tips for identifying a spy phone. If a mobile phone unloads information without demand, then, firstly, the battery discharges suspiciously quickly, secondly, the phone itself is always warm (due to a long “conversation”), and finally, if it is brought to any speaker system (for example, computer speakers), the speakers will emit a characteristic buzz. According to Weinstein, the only way to avoid listening is to remove the battery every time you want to keep secret. At the same time, there is an opinion that the capabilities of special services and modern technologies are exaggerated, and the FBI agents in the aforementioned investigation still used a miniature radio transmitter built into the suspect's phone. By the way, a threat to privacy was also discovered in the Nike + iPod Sport Kit, which appeared in the summer. Recall that the sports kit consists of a transmitter built into Nike sneakers and a receiver connected to the iPod. This tandem allows you to calculate the distance traveled by the owner, calories burned, speed, etc. Researchers from the University of Washington presented a report on the interception of an unencrypted "shoe" signal. Each transmitter has unique "callsigns" and, according to researchers, can be used, for example, to monitor a person you are interested in. Devices based on a laptop and even a wristwatch were created, which react to the approach of the Nike + iPod media. In addition, the authors of the report developed a program in real time showing the location of the music lover on Google Maps. It is emphasized that to build such a hardware-software complex is quite capable of a technically literate student. True, the distance at which you can catch the signal is small - about 20 meters, which, given the relatively small prevalence of sports kit, greatly limits the possibility of real-life operation of the technology. Based on materials from Computerra Source: terralab.ru