Is it possible to be spied on with a Blackberry?

[tlarkin]

It is not hard to actually clone a SIM, but it does require a device to do so. I have a SIM cloner that an ex mobile phone company employee gave me and you can buy them online. It takes seconds to clone a SIM after you take it out and put it in the cloner.

I know that seems like a lot of work and maybe far fetched but if you were determined to do so, it is not that hard. google searching would show you guides and where to buy.

CDMA phones are even easier to clone. I once cloned a sprint phone in a matter of a few minutes but it does require physical access.

If she left her phone on say the coffee table for even 5 minutes that would be enough time to load hijack software onto the phone.

The only way to be 100% sure that your phone is safe is to wipe it and reload it and change all your passwords.

 

[LauraA]

Blackberry Spying: Precisions and Clarifications

Thank-you to all of you for your kindness to help me solve this problem !

1. My ex did not tell me explicitely that he is spying on my e-mails: he just insinuates things, i.e. "Did you write to X today?" or "Did you get an e-mail from Y lately?" while there is no way he should know about when or how often I write to these persons or they write to me ! I feel he does it purposefully to test me .

2. He never had long access to my Blackberry (but certainly 5 or 10 minutes here and there). However, he is rather technologically impaired, so I doubt he would have cloned my phone.

3. I think I once entered my e-mail account from his computer, and typed in my unforgivably long, difficult, and "un-guessable" password. Perhaps he could use my password again. That is the only instance that I remember placing myself in a vulnerable position, lately. Therefore, I guess Cromewell was probably on the right path when he said :

Of all the possibilities, I'd say the most likely is that he has access to your email account.

I imagine that changing my password would suffice to correct the problem? I this is not the case, please let me know. I still will try to "wipe" my phone: I have tons of messages there and it takes forever to delete them! Unless one of you geniuses (no sarcasm here, just full admiration) can suggest a way to erase messages faster.

Take care and THANK-YOU FOR ALL YOUR BRILLIANT ADVICE AND IDEAS !!! :good:

 

[Cromewell]

imagine that changing my password would suffice to correct the problem?

Yes, changing your password and 'secret question' if you have one should be enough. You may want to scan your PC for keyloggers and such first.

Unless one of you geniuses (no sarcasm here, just full admiration) can suggest a way to erase messages faster.

It shouldn't take too long to erase. The last time I erased and reloaded the OS and other software it took about 20-30 min. If you have set a password, entering it wrong 10 times should wipe all messages but if you are reloading the handhelp software anyway you might as well use the application loader to erase everything.

 

[PohTayToez]

It is not hard to actually clone a SIM, but it does require a device to do so. I have a SIM cloner that an ex mobile phone company employee gave me and you can buy them online. It takes seconds to clone a SIM after you take it out and put it in the cloner.

Sorry, you're wrong on several points. First, like I said in my first post, SIM cloning is much harder since they upgraded the security on them several years ago. Also, even on the older cards, brute forcing the key took hours, sometimes days.

Secondly, as I've brought up before as well, cloning would not give you access to any email accounts being used on that phone. To set up a phone for email, you have to enter in all of the account information. Cloning the ESN or SIM would not magically load all of the account information into the new phone.

 

[Cromewell]

Sorry, you're wrong on several points. First, like I said in my first post, SIM cloning is much harder since they upgraded the security on them several years ago. Also, even on the older cards, brute forcing the key took hours, sometimes days.

Secondly, as I've brought up before as well, cloning would not give you access to any email accounts being used on that phone. To set up a phone for email, you have to enter in all of the account information. Cloning the ESN or SIM would not magically load all of the account information into the new phone.

It would allow eavesdropping and you would miss calls if the tower found the cloned phone first. I haven't dealt with cloned phones with push email services so I don't know what would get forwarded where.

 

[PohTayToez]

It would allow eavesdropping and you would miss calls if the tower found the cloned phone first. I haven't dealt with cloned phones with push email services so I don't know what would get forwarded where.

Well, unlike a call, email doesn't go directly to the phone, it goes to a server and the phone communicates that that server, so IF a cloned phone did have have access to the email accounts then it would be delivered to both phones unlike an SMS or call. However, like I said, cloning a phone woudn't input the email account details into the new phone.