Smartphone Bibliography

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/21/paris_hacked/



In this article is states when actress and model paris Hilton had her Sidekick hacked from a random person. Its good becuase it jsut lets people know that it can happen to anybody and even famous people.



http://www.snapshield.com/www_problems/Inter/All_you.htm



This article explains how to listen in on local cell phone conversations. Different towers send off different radio waves and what you need to do is buy some equipment and a hacker scrambler and listen in.

I don't like this at all, I just feel it is way to easy for people to hack or listen in on cell phone conversations when ever they want. Especially the FBI or CIA or any other higher power authority who can get there hands on high tech. devices. Its very illegal but its very easy to do.





http://www.totse.com/en/phreak/cellular_phones/cellhack.html



In this article John Markoff talks about cellular phone hacking. he explains in his article, "this hackers push the cellular phones are far as they can go". He also goes about explaining and introducing a few hackers leaving there names anonymous. He also explains how they hack cell phones, explaining that cell phones are jsut mini computers and with a little practice, and if you know what your doing, it is easy to accomplish, just as these people have as well as many others.





http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218392878&cat=3_4



This article describes a virus in stead of hackers taking things from you, they effect your phone with viruses. Like the first virus called the "Cabir" know to drain the battery attracting from bluetooth users, known to look for high powered batteries and drain them. There are over 300 cell phone viruses today, the first one started in 2004.

Here is a video from youtube, He explains how hacking a cell phone is bad, and can also be good.

This video explains that hacking an be bad and yet hacking can also be good.