Apple has approved a tethering app that allows iPhone users to share their smartphone’s data connection via a USB hook-up with their laptop, even if they don’t have a tethering plan with their carrier. The app, iTether, has prompted questions over why Apple approved the app in the first place and how long it might [...]
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iTether iPhone covert tethering tool hits App Store [Update: Pulled!]
Screen Grabs: Covert Affairs exposes secret Rogers service in Washington DC
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UK Police Buy Covert Cellphone Surveillance System
digitig writes “UK Metropolitan Police have purchased a ‘covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network, transmitting a signal that allows authorities to shut off phones remotely, intercept communications and gather data about thousands of users in a targeted area.’ Other customers apparently include ‘the U.S. Secret Service, the Ministry of Defence and regimes in the Middle East.’”
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