Snipped from Newsweek.com.

“Peek-a-boo … you see me?” may have just become, “Now I see you and hear you 24/7/365?” As a young tot, playing Peek-a-Boo with your big brother was probably a great thrill. Now, it seems people want to continue this trend, well on into your adult years. Your big brother may have just become your “Big Brother.”

Never mind the semantics; just realize this was probably the first time you may have been under surveillance, the baby monitor notwithstanding. This peek-a-boo routine with an adult, of course, was a fun game — you giving off baby laugh after baby laugh. And wasn’t it also a heck of a lot of fun for both of you? And you, the kid, always wanted more and more of Peek-a-Boo.

Now that you’re grown up, surveillance ain’t a fun game anymore, is it? Especially the clandestine kind. Not when you’re the subject of the spying. Oh, I’m not telling you anything you didn’t already know; the reader has heard it all. You probably even know a friend who’s now divorced because their spouse went shopping for some undercover electronic spying tools — oh yes — to uncover some hanky-panky that become “discovery” evidence in the divorce case. And how about that couple you read about who caught their baby-sitter roughing up junior, and was prosecuted after being caught with a nanny-cam?

Well, brace yourself. But first: Do you remember those counterespionage films — still being played on wee late night TV — where the electronic bugs were always hidden inside the phones? Maybe, too, you watched such a phone debugged but on a classic spy movie on DVD?

Sooo, you ask. Well, now it’s here: your cell phone may be software bugged to watch and to listen in 24/7/265. “Peek a Boo” just ain’t funny anymore, and it’s never ever going to be funny anymore, not for teens, or even preteens (because now Mom doesn’t need to ransack your bedroom to learn what’s going on with you. (Tip, maybe you and your pals can sign up for a sign language course.) Oh no, oh yes!) And never ever will it be fun, not for adults either, certainly not for any hanky-panky adultery because I see you, I hear you.

So what happened? Check this out. Spy-phone is just one of the many hundreds of new apps, recently written by software developers, that’s now on the market. The spy app can be purchased over the Internet.

From Newsweek (magazine date: June 15th, 2009) from article “The Spy In Your Hand” by Benjamin Sutherland. The first intro paragraph of Mr. Sutherland’s article follows:

“Don’t talk: your cell phone may be eavesdropping. Thanks to recent developments in “spy phone” software, a do-it-yourself spook can now wirelessly transfer a wiretapping program to any mobile phone. The programs are inexpensive, and the transfer requires no special skill. The would-be spy needs to get his hands on your phone to press keys authorizing the download, but it takes just a few minutes—about the time needed to download a ringtone.”

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Good Gawk! And you thought that Maxwell Smart’s phone-in-a-shoe was CIA cool? How can you know your individual cell phone may have become a spy-cell phone? I don’t know. I don’t think you can tell. Just assume every cell phone is a spy phone. Good Gawk! Oh yes, reader, Good Gawk!

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