The Various Extremes of Phone Hacking
I say extremes here because I’m defining the various limits.
For instance, if the Police hack the mobile phone of a missing person or a suspected criminal, to see if they can solve a serious crime, then that is probably acceptable, providing everything is recorded and it is performed under a set of legal rules. In some cases they may be required to get similar permissions as they do when they tap a phone.
On the other hand, if say I lost my mobile phone and needed to retrieve the various voice messages on that phone and I asked someone who said he could hack the phone and tell me what was stored, then no offence would be committed. It wouldn’t actually happen, as I know how to retrieve my messages from another phone and frequently do.
I’ve also changed my pin, so for an individual to hack my phone and read the messaes would be fairly difficult. But then who would want the secrets I don’t have.
Much more important to me are my text messages and I can’t remember anybody being accused of hacking these. In fact, I suspect that the Police probably use text messages to find out if a mobile phone is working or switched on. I know I send text messages to people I want to contact from my desktop and when I get an acknowledgement they’ve answered, I might ring them.
So did those people get hacked because they didn’t change their pin number? If you look at them, a lot fall into the group of people who have twenty four legs and an IQ of 12. i.e. Z-List celebrities and/or politicians. So I suspect that many were partly to blame.
The Anonymous Widower 