Family terrorised by hacker stalking their mobile phones? Oh please!
Have a read of this piece by Mike Elgan via PC World:
Link: PC World - Stalker Terrorizes Family Via Cell Phone?
The Kuykendall family in Fircrest, Wash., claims that a hacker has been stalking them for four months through their camera phones, using the microphones in the phones to listen to them and the cameras to watch. They say that even when they turn off the phones, the hacker can turn them back on.
Any sane individual, particularly a geek, knows that this is absolute rubbish. Have a read through the full article — Mike, who knows his stuff, sorts the rubbish from the reality in a wickedly good way.
These people were on TV talking about this and I wanted to smack them for being so ignorant. I couldn’t believe some of the stuff they were claiming that was happening. I’m glad this guy wrote this article and pointed this stuff out because this is the kind of thing that everyone will see and just assume is 100% true and accurate.
Reminds me to take everything with a grain of salt….
Posted by nate on June 30th, 2007 at 6:10 pm.