Devices That Stop Cell Phone Bugging
- Cell phones are a convenient tool for eavesdroppers to gain confidential information.cell phone image by sonya etchison from Fotolia.com
Today, it is almost expected that everyone owns a cell phone that they carry everywhere they go. But along with convenience for their owners, cell phones offer eavesdroppers an easy way to listen in on personal conversations, tune in to confidential business meetings, and commit acts of espionage. Cell phones infected with spyware can transmit conversations to a third party, and they can even act as microphones if left behind in a room. Fortunately, a number of devices can combat cell phone bugging. - If you believe your own phone is bugged, frequency finding devices such as those sold by Brick House Security can detect unauthorized transmissions from your phone. If you detect a bug, specialists such as the IDF Task Force can help you get rid of it and determine your next steps.
- F-Secure sells software that can find and remove spyware on your phone.
- Netline Communications Technologies offers a cellular phone detector often used in high-profile settings such as military bases, where cell phones could be used as mics to pick up confidential conversations. The system detects when cell phones make phone calls and send text or picture messages and also can jam transmissions.
- Cell phone jammers, available from a number of specialty retailers like SpyAssociates.com and theSignalJammer.com, can block cell phones being used to bug a room.
