is it really so simple ?

[Thunderchild]

found this on yahoo is it so easy to "pluck" text messages ? are they inception equipment schematics all over the place ? I think they exagerate a bit

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[Ambient]

I imagine if you know how the signal is encoded it would be fairly easy. I am thinking you would just need to know some specifics about the targets phone, like the channel it is on ( not sure if I am right here). It would probably be pretty easy to do for someone who is familiar with cell phone signals.

 

[Thunderchild]

oh yea like a random teenager they seem to think

 

[kchriste]

What most lay people don't seem to realize is that a cellphone is just a glorified digital radio. Nothing is private because it is broadcast over RF and anyone with half a brain can listen in to both the voice and text data.

 

[Thunderchild]

hm yes I suppose so I guess its just a case of understandig the technology it works on and decoding it