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If Northern Virginian sprawl is hell, route 1 is its main street.

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cell phones are bugs

supposedly the mic on your cell phone can be used by others to listen in on nearby conversations, and the phone doesn't have to be in use or even powered on.

If ordered to do so, mobile telephone operators can also tap any calls, but more significantly they can also remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call, giving security services the perfect bugging device. "We have inadvertently started carrying our own trackable ID card in the form of the mobile phone," said Sandra Bell, head of the homeland security department at the Royal United Services Institute.
-Financial Times

here's the details of how it might work and how you can detect it if you're the paranoid type.

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a how-to and why guide