The mobile device has long become an integral part of people's lives. It allows you to transfer a large amount of information, including secret, personal, commercial, and wiretapping has also become very common. To save yourself from the leakage of valuable information, you need to know how to secure your mobile phone from eavesdropping.
How to determine if a phone is being tapped
A number of signs will help determine if a mobile phone is being tapped. First, when the listening device is not in use, its battery remains warm or hot. This also includes the situation when the battery of the cell being listened to suddenly began to discharge much faster, as if the battery had suddenly worn out.
Secondly, turning off the mobile phone becomes too long and is accompanied by blinking of the backlight or screen. However, in this case, it is possible that the device simply became faulty.
Third (this is the most obvious sign) strange interference appears. For example, when you are not on the phone, a pulsating noise may occur.
How to protect a mobile phone from wiretapping?
The easiest and at the same time the cheapest way to prevent possible information leakage is not to use a mobile phone to transfer it. This means that you do not need to conduct secret, personal, commercial, secret, intimate and other types of conversations via regular or mobile communications. However, for obvious reasons, this is still not the best way out of this situation.
Another simple way to protect yourself from wiretapping is to replace the old SIM card with a new one, which no one should know about. However, the operator, requesting the IMEI - a unique phone number, will continue to identify you, and therefore changing the sim card will do nothing, and you will need to purchase a new device. Hence, the main disadvantage of this method follows: high costs for the purchase of new sim-cards, as well as telephones. Due to this disadvantage, this method of protection will be unacceptable for many people.
You can also protect a mobile phone from eavesdropping using a crypto phone - a device equipped with special encryption tools. Cryptotelephones are quite effective in protecting against wiretapping, but they have a number of disadvantages: high cost, the subscriber must have such a device at the other end of the connection, and a voice delay of several seconds.
The use of specialized software also allows you to protect your mobile phone from wiretapping. Software products are installed on the communicator or smartphone, for example, with three-level encryption of the conversation.
Another option for protecting against wiretapping is the use of a scambler. This is an encryption device that is attached to a communication device and encrypts all data, incoming or outgoing calls online.
To protect your mobile phone from wiretapping, you can use a masker. It is an accessory that creates noise interference on the line, interfering with normal hearing for eavesdropping. However, for the subscribers themselves, such noise will not be heard.
Whichever option you choose, do not forget that protecting your phone from wiretapping is also protecting your interests, since information that falls into the wrong hands can act against you.
