This Nokia N95 is listening

by Chris Ziegler, posted Apr 15th 2007 at 7:38AM

So we get the Big Brother / CIA / James Bond appeal of a phone that sends all ambient audio, phone calls, and text messages to a third party; we really do. What we can't fathom, though, is what circumstance would lead to you giving a frickin' N95 to someone you're trying to spy on. If you're trying to spy on them, that presumably means that you're not on the best of terms -- and frankly, if we got a $1,000 handset from an enemy of ours with no strings attached, we'd be just a tad suspect of the device. Anyhoo, if you've got money to burn and privacy to violate, this Nokia N95 specially equipped with "Interceptor Software" will keep you in the loop on any form of communication its user engages in. Oh, and at £2,300 (about $4,560), you'd better really need to eavesdrop.

[Via SCI FI Tech]

Filed under: Handsets, Software, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Tags: Culture, eavesdrop, eavesdropping, n95, nokia, spy

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Randy @ Apr 15th 2007 5:48PM

$4,000+ dollar to eavesdrop on the Mrs? Not cost effective. It'd be cheaper to just look at the cell phone/Credit Card bills.

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narcszm @ Apr 15th 2007 7:17PM

Two words: Cheating spouse.

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Steven Roussey @ Apr 16th 2007 2:28PM

This is for Karl Rove...

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Long @ Apr 16th 2007 4:44PM

This is a great way to find out the identity of the person who stole your phone. When the phone is a $1000 bucks, you know many peeps are going to do a run-by snatch and grab while you are making calls and walking your dog.

You can basically find out where the person will be, chat it up with his girlfriend once you get her number, call his mother and rat on him and then give all that information to the police so they can get the guy.

No one in their right mind would give someone a phone that is $1000 bucks unless he/she is a sugar daddy/mommy.

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