| When you are not following closely the trends of | | | | certain things that you can do and some that you |
| technology advancement, it's easy to fall behind | | | | can't do. For instance, you can locate the phone |
| and wonder if the things you hear are true. It | | | | on an online map at any time, usually through |
| doesn't help that many misinformed or ill-willed | | | | Google Maps. This feature effectively turns a |
| people go around saying things that are | | | | mobile phone into a tracking device for the person |
| exaggerations or plain lies. | | | | carrying it. |
| For example, there are many people that wonder | | | | That's pretty much the closest the software |
| if it's possible to spy a cell phone. I know it sounds | | | | comes to being a James Bond device. However, |
| far fetched if you haven't been up to date with | | | | while not flashy, the rest of its features are very |
| phone technology, but the truth is that it's actually | | | | practical. |
| possible. However, it is not possible in the sense | | | | Let's take call tracking for example. When you |
| that many people think, which is based on ideas | | | | hire a private investigator to find out if your |
| they get from watching Hollywood spy movies. | | | | spouse is having an affair, one of the first things |
| To start, it's not a piece of hardware or a special | | | | he does is find this information, which cheating |
| type of phone that makes the trick. It's a piece | | | | husbands always try to hide. Software that allows |
| of software that you download from the Internet | | | | you to spy a mobile phone gets you this |
| that makes it possible to spy a cell phone. The | | | | information for a small fraction of the price. And it |
| best part is that you don't even have to connect | | | | gets you the content of every text message, |
| the phone to the computer. All you need is to get | | | | which a private investigator doesn't. |
| a number that's printed inside the battery | | | | So, yes, it's possible to spy a mobile phone, but it |
| compartment of the phone and which serves to | | | | does have its limits. You won't be able to hack |
| identify it among all the millions of phones in the | | | | into other people's computers, use the phone to |
| world. You just enter this number into a website, | | | | intercept calls from other phones, open electronic |
| pay a fee with a credit card and that's it. | | | | locks, or any of all those tricks you see in spy |
| Now, when you spy a cell phone, there are | | | | movies. |