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Electronic devices have made our lives easier, fast paced and dangerous. Information about people is stored all over the world in electronic devices and there is no longer privacy or security. Compute
r hacking has been around for about as long as computers have been and people have had to start their lives over because of stolen identities caused by hacking. Now we have anti virus and spy-ware on computers to keep your information safe but these hackers are smart people and it was only a matter of time before they found a way to get information off of cell phones. Cell phones are used by people of all ages. I've seen kids as young as 5 years old who have cell phones and adults as old as 95 have them.


One of the first times that cell phone hacking was acknowledged to the public was when Paris Hilton's phone
was hacked and her contact list was copied and posted on the Internet. Her celebrity friends were bombarded with unwanted calls because of this hacker. The most common form of hacking a cell phone is by using a computer that scans frequencies that Bluetooth gives off. The Bluetooth is a wireless way to connect a phone to a headset, computer or even speakers in a car. Hackers are able to download contact lists, your phone number and pictures off of your phone within seconds. They can change your numbers in your contact list, steal your number to make phone calls or even eavesdrop on your conversations. If you have access to the internet from your phone and make purchases over the phone your information such as credit card numbers or bank account numbers can be downloaded and stolen. Viruses that can make your computer crash can also be loaded to your phone by the hacker making your cell phone unusable. Another form of hacking is called "Bluebugging". Bluebugging is something that you would need to have access to the phone for a few seconds to set up a trusted data link. Someone may leave their phone at the dinner table while they use the restroom or even just let someone who likes the phone look at it and the features and this person can set up this data link in just the few seconds they have access to the phone. When a phone has been bluebugged the hacker can make calls, send text messages, anything the phone can do the hacker has access to do. Tyra Banks recently had a show where a girl had been bluebugged and the hacker was sending threatening messages to her friends. The hacker was making phone calls from her number to people in her address book and harassing them. The hacker also had access to her video recorder and camera on her phone so they could see everything in view of the phone. He would call her and tell her exactly what she was doing, if she was alone, where she was, and that he was coming to kill her. The hacker eventually gain access to her family members and friends cell phones a did the same thing to them. Most of these hackers are all about pranking and scaring people and there is no truth to the fact that they are out to kill you or hurt you physically. However the people getting hacked fear for their lives and live in hiding because they truly believe that they are in danger. These hackers find this funny. People believe that if they keep their bluetooth on hidden that it will prevent hackers from picking up the signal but that is not true. The only way to stay safe is to only have your bluetooth on when necessary or not at all. The scary thing about cell phone hacking is that people post on the web exactly how to do it. There are "How to" websites on how to hack cell phones and are easily accessible to anyone with Internet access.

Cell phone hacking is going to be a world wide problem and there isn't going to be an easy fix. The phone companies continue to sell equipment that they know is vulnerable to hacking. People are going to have to learn to keep themselves safe by turning off their bluetooth devices in public places and not letting someone they do not trust have possession of their cell phone for even just a few seconds. People will learn soon that the price they have to pay to have bluetooth technology is that they should not be using it constantly. Just as people have learned to surf the web safely, they will eventually learn to use their cell phone safely but it will be at the cost of thousands of people being hacked and harassed before people come to realize that this is a real problem.