Need A Cooker? Use Your Cell Phone.

By Sue Mueller
6-28-6


Many organizations including the cell phone industry often downplay
the risk of cell phone radiation to the brain. Results from short-
term studies were used to convince consumers that use of a cell phone
is not associated with brain tumors or cancer, which only develop
decades after exposure.

To be fair, no one knows exactly how much harm a cell phone can do to
a person. Howe

Recently, new media has reported a study showing the radiation from
cell phones is so full of energy they can be used to cook eggs.

In the experiment, researchers placed one egg in a porcelain cup
(because it is easy to conduct heat), and put one cell phone on one
side and another cell phone on the other. The researchers then called
from one cell phone to another and kept the cell phones on after
connecting.

During the first 15 minutes, nothing changed. After 25 minutes,
however, the egg shell started to become hot and at 40 minutes, the
surface of the egg became hard and bristled. Researchers found the
protein in the egg had become solid although the egg yolk was still
in liquid form. After 65 minutes, the whole egg was well cooked.

The study shows how scary cell phone radiation is. People should try
to avoid use of cell phones. Although so far no one has proved the
radiation from cell phones can cause something clinically
significant. By the same token, there has been no one who can
disprove the existence of such a risk.

Children should be forbidden from cell phone use because they still
grow their brains and are particularly vulnerable to radiation.

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How Two Russian Journalists Cooked An Egg With Their Mobile Phones

RawFamily.com

Vladimir Lagovski and Andrei Moiseynko from Komsomolskaya Pravda
Newspaper in Moscow decided to learn first-hand how harmful cell
phones are. There is no magic in cooking with your cell phone. The
secret is in the radio waves that the cell phone radiates.

The journalists created a simple microwave structure as shown in the
picture. They called from one cell phone to the other and left both
phones on talking mode. They placed a tape recorder next to phones to
imitate sounds of speaking so the phones would stay on.

After 15 minutes: The egg became slightly warm.

25 minutes: The egg became very warm.

40 minutes: The egg became very hot.

65 minutes: The egg was cooked. (As you can see.)

http://rense.com/general72/cellcook.htm

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FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool

By Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache
CNET News.com
December 1, 2006

VIDEO DOWNLOAD: FBI listens even when phone is turned off
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O61YfvPZGJs

update The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic
surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile
phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.

The technique is called a "roving bug," and was approved by top U.S.
Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York
organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance
techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.

Nextel cell phones owned by two alleged mobsters, John Ardito and his
attorney Peter Peluso, were used by the FBI to listen in on nearby
conversations. The FBI views Ardito as one of the most powerful men
in the Genovese family, a major part of the national Mafia.

The surveillance technique came to light in an opinion published this
week by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan. He ruled that the "roving
bug" was legal because federal wiretapping law is broad enough to
permit eavesdropping even of conversations that take place near a
suspect's cell phone.

Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique "functioned
whether the phone was powered on or off." Some handsets can't be
fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some
Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set.

While the Genovese crime family prosecution appears to be the first
time a remote-eavesdropping mechanism has been used in a criminal
case, the technique has been discussed in security circles for years.

The U.S. Commerce Department's security office warns that "a cellular
telephone can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the
purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone."
An article in the Financial Times last year said mobile providers
can "remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without
the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when
its owner is not making a call."

Nextel and Samsung handsets and the Motorola Razr are especially
vulnerable to software downloads that activate their microphones,
said James Atkinson, a counter-surveillance consultant who has worked
closely with government agencies. "They can be remotely accessed and
made to transmit room audio all the time," he said. "You can do that
without having physical access to the phone."

Because modern handsets are miniature computers, downloaded software
could modify the usual interface that always displays when a call is
in progress. The spyware could then place a call to the FBI and
activate the microphone--all without the owner knowing it happened.
(The FBI declined to comment on Friday.)

"If a phone has in fact been modified to act as a bug, the only way
to counteract that is to either have a bugsweeper follow you around
24-7, which is not practical, or to peel the battery off the phone,"
Atkinson said. Security-conscious corporate executives routinely
remove the batteries from their cell phones, he added.

FBI's physical bugs discovered
The FBI's Joint Organized Crime Task Force, which includes members of
the New York police department, had little luck with conventional
surveillance of the Genovese family. They did have a confidential
source who reported the suspects met at restaurants including
Brunello Trattoria in New Rochelle, N.Y., which the FBI then bugged.

But in July 2003, Ardito and his crew discovered bugs in three
restaurants, and the FBI quietly removed the rest. Conversations
recounted in FBI affidavits show the men were also highly suspicious
of being tailed by police and avoided conversations on cell phones
whenever possible.

That led the FBI to resort to "roving bugs," first of Ardito's Nextel
handset and then of Peluso's. U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones
approved them in a series of orders in 2003 and 2004, and said she
expected to "be advised of the locations" of the suspects when their
conversations were recorded.

Details of how the Nextel bugs worked are sketchy. Court documents,
including an affidavit (p1) and (p2) prepared by Assistant U.S.
Attorney Jonathan Kolodner in September 2003, refer to them as
a "listening device placed in the cellular telephone." That phrase
could refer to software or hardware.

One private investigator interviewed by CNET News.com, Skipp Porteous
of Sherlock Investigations in New York, said he believed the FBI
planted a physical bug somewhere in the Nextel handset and did not
remotely activate the microphone.

"They had to have physical possession of the phone to do it,"
Porteous said. "There are several ways that they could have gotten
physical possession. Then they monitored the bug from fairly near
by."

But other experts thought microphone activation is the more likely
scenario, mostly because the battery in a tiny bug would not have
lasted a year and because court documents say the bug works
anywhere "within the United States"--in other words, outside the
range of a nearby FBI agent armed with a radio receiver.

In addition, a paranoid Mafioso likely would be suspicious of any
ploy to get him to hand over a cell phone so a bug could be planted.
And Kolodner's affidavit seeking a court order lists Ardito's phone
number, his 15-digit International Mobile Subscriber Identifier, and
lists Nextel Communications as the service provider, all of which
would be unnecessary if a physical bug were being planted.

A BBC article from 2004 reported that intelligence agencies routinely
employ the remote-activiation method. "A mobile sitting on the desk
of a politician or businessman can act as a powerful, undetectable
bug," the article said, "enabling them to be activated at a later
date to pick up sounds even when the receiver is down."

For its part, Nextel said through spokesman Travis Sowders: "We're
not aware of this investigation, and we weren't asked to
participate."

Other mobile providers were reluctant to talk about this kind of
surveillance. Verizon Wireless said only that it "works closely with
law enforcement and public safety officials. When presented with
legally authorized orders, we assist law enforcement in every way
possible."

A Motorola representative said that "your best source in this case
would be the FBI itself." Cingular, T-Mobile, and the CTIA trade
association did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Mobsters: The surveillance vanguard
This isn't the first time the federal government has pushed at the
limits of electronic surveillance when investigating reputed
mobsters.

In one case involving Nicodemo S. Scarfo, the alleged mastermind of a
loan shark operation in New Jersey, the FBI found itself thwarted
when Scarfo used Pretty Good Privacy software (PGP) to encode
confidential business data.

So with a judge's approval, FBI agents repeatedly snuck into Scarfo's
business to plant a keystroke logger and monitor its output.

Like Ardito's lawyers, Scarfo's defense attorneys argued that the
then-novel technique was not legal and that the information gleaned
through it could not be used. Also like Ardito, Scarfo's lawyers lost
when a judge ruled in January 2002 that the evidence was admissible.

This week, Judge Kaplan in the southern district of New York
concluded that the "roving bugs" were legally permitted to capture
hundreds of hours of conversations because the FBI had obtained a
court order and alternatives probably wouldn't work.

The FBI's "applications made a sufficient case for electronic
surveillance," Kaplan wrote. "They indicated that alternative methods
of investigation either had failed or were unlikely to produce
results, in part because the subjects deliberately avoided government
surveillance."

Bill Stollhans, president of the Private Investigators Association of
Virginia, said such a technique would be legally reserved for police
armed with court orders, not private investigators.

There is "no law that would allow me as a private investigator to use
that type of technique," he said. "That is exclusively for law
enforcement. It is not allowable or not legal in the private sector.
No client of mine can ask me to overhear telephone or strictly oral
conversations."

Surreptitious activation of built-in microphones by the FBI has been
done before. A 2003 lawsuit revealed that the FBI was able to
surreptitiously turn on the built-in microphones in automotive
systems like General Motors' OnStar to snoop on passengers'
conversations.

When FBI agents remotely activated the system and were listening in,
passengers in the vehicle could not tell that their conversations
were being monitored.

Malicious hackers have followed suit. A report last year said Spanish
authorities had detained a man who write a Trojan horse that secretly
activated a computer's video camera and forwarded him the recordings.

http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html

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"It seems to me like Justice was stood on its head. In Boston, we had
a group of FBI agents who decided to throw the rules out the window.
They let a lying witness send innocent men to death row and life in
prison. They had a group of mob informants committing murders with
impunity. They tipped of killers so they could flee before being
arrested. They interfered with local investigations of drug dealing
and arms smuggling. We had a bunch of criminals running around
killing people under virtual FBI protection."
—Chairman Dan Burton, Committee on Government Reform, US Congress,
February 14, 2002
http://house.gov/reform/beth/investigation_fbi_doj_misconduct/feb_14_h
earing/opening_statement0214.htm

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