mammikoura
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D-Lew said:No... surely there has to be something in the software that allows it to do that. It wasn't designed to just work that way, you know? At least I hope it wasn't...
I don't think the stuff they use to do this needs anything special from the phone. They just find the microphone of the phone, and activate it and start listening to it. If it would use some stuff which they put on the phone before it was sold then it wouldn't work on older models, right? And I don't know how it can be software based if they are listening to it even when the phone isn't on!
edit: lol, just thought to check out the actual article to see if there was anything there about this.
"Any recently manufactured cell phone has a built-in tracking device, which can allow eavesdroppers to pinpoint someone's location to within just a few feet,"
So just stay away from the new models