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For those of you lucky enough to own a Mac you may have come across Adium, the multi-chat client that supports no fewer than fifteen different chat protocols. Well, prepare to make that sixteen, as Adium is set to support Facebook Chat in the next stable release. Woo hoo! (Though I actually don’t use Facebook Chat at all…)
Good news, Facebook fans! I’ve just finished adding Facebook Chat support to Adium for the next release.
OK, this made me smile a lot. If I find out who wrote the lyrics I may be able to find them for you. I suspect it’s someone along the lines of Weird Al or Stephen Lynch, but I can’t confirm that yet.
Cell Phone Spying: Is Your Life Being Monitored?
While it’s sufficiently difficult to capture and decrypt GSM data over-the-air, and we can usually trust our operators not to divulge private conversations to anyone without a court order, one attack vector that is not protected by either your operator or GSM encryption is an attack directed at your handset.
Essentially your phone has all of the ingredients a (semi-)professional data miner could need to gather all sorts of personal and confidential information about you. It has a microphone and a camera; maybe even a GPS system or a temperature monitor. You store your contacts’ details, your calendar, videos and pictures, notes, text messages and maybe emails on the device.1 It has an integrated worldwide network connection through GSM, a high-speed data connection through GPRS or UMTS and personal area connectivity through Bluetooth.
Above all of these things, your mobile is a fully fledged programmable device — a computer if you will — with its own processor, storage, operating system and application software, and all of the bugs, loopholes and vulnerabilities you would expect from its more traditional desktop cousin.
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