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Subscribers Alert Over Cloned Cellular Phones
This is wild. The Korean government said it is technically possible to trace cell phone owners by cloning their gadgets without their knowledge, reports The Korea Times. "In a report to the National Assembly on Tuesday, the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) confirmed the fact and said it had detected a total of 1,940 cloned phones since last November. According to the MIC, cloned cell phones might help unscrupulous persons register themselves as a friend of a targeted phone owner to trace his whereabouts. Every cell phone has a unique factory-set electronic serial number (ESN) and a cloned phone is one illegally programmed to have the identical ESN to the legitimate phone. After cloning, both the legitimate and the fraudulent phones have the same ESN and phone number, and cellular systems cannot distinguish the cloned cell phone from the legitimate one. " |
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