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Mysterious phone calls from 865-6696 may install NSA surveillance code on your iPhone
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Warning to all Sprint mobile users
Mike Adams
Natural News
October 22, 2013
All across America, people who have Sprint service on their iPhones and other mobile devices are receiving repeated calls from the number “865-6696″ without any area code. Sprint message boards are full of thousands of complaints of people experiencing this issue, but no one seems to understand the true reason why these calls are being made.
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When the call is answered, no one is there. Attempting to call the number back does not work. Spelled out on the phone keypad, the number “865-6696″ spells out “UNKNOWN,” adding to the mystery of where these calls are originating or what their purpose might be.
Comments on message boards such as 800notes.com say things like this:
I receive 3 or 4 calls per day from this number… with no area code. just 865-6696. i’ve not answered it for fear of who might be on the other end. i’m not sure how to report this and get this number to stop calling me. VERY aggravating!
Investigation turns up frightening possibility of surveillance code payload
After hearing about this issue from several people I know personally, I decided to investigate.
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
First, a scan of the message boards indicates this issue is limited almost exclusively to iPhone owners using Sprint. Some people on the message boards have incorrectly assumed these calls must be from telemarketers, but if that were the case, it wouldn’t be limited to just iPhone users, as telemarketers have no way to know what hardware device exists at their target phone numbers. Furthermore, even after blocking this number, people continue to receive calls from it, confirming that these calls are exempted from call blocking.
Here’s another fascinating point: I’ve been able to confirm over and over again that these calls are being placed with foreknowledge of the exact hardware of the target phone number. The originator of these calls, in other words, knows in advance that the user has an iPhone and not an Android or other mobile device.
As user “JMillz” describes in his comment post:
I have an iPhone 4 with Sprint and I just started receiving these calls a couple days ago. I have been reading you guys’ posts on here and we pretty much ALL have the same things in common: All with Sprint AND ALL have either iPhones 4 or 4s’… I’ve been getting calls from this number non-STOP! When I do pick it up they just either hang up or its dead air and then hangs up. VERY annoying! I opened up a case with Sprint tech support and they had NO solutions for this issue other than to do a master reset (which would just erase all media in my phone not backed up to icloud) or change my number! Not cool at all.
This all but proves these are not random telemarketing calls. The calls are clearly being placed by an organization that knows who owns iPhones and wishes to get them to answer their phones.
But why?
NSA surveillance Trojan Horse installed if you answer?
To find out, I called a contact I’ve known for a few years who is an expert in cyber security. He’s been one of the people closely watching the Edward Snowden disclosures and the NSA surveillance issue. He obviously asked me not to reveal his identity, so I won’t.
He told me that this has been going on for over a year and that he believes the phone calls are a vector by which the NSA can install surveillance code onto iPhone devices but only if you answer the phone. Once you answer, a so-called “digital payload” is quickly downloaded to your phone while you are saying “Hello? Hello?”
“The digital payload requires several seconds for a complete download,” my contact told me. “If you hang up before the download completes, your device won’t be infected [because the code cannot be executed].” The code is carried with the call, I was told, as a parallel digital stream encoded into the call data itself, in much the same way that secret messages can be encoded into JPEG images. Apple deliberately built in this “back door” payload receiving system, a fact which has been confirmed by releases of information from former NSA worker Edward Snowden that show how Apple, Google, Microsoft and other corporations deliberately built in back doors for NSA surveillance.
The purpose of this digital payload, I was told, is not known, but it may be Trojan Horse code that attaches “bread crumbs” to your phone calls that allow the NSA to more easily locate, track and archive your phone calls, text messages and mobile web surfing activity.
CNET and others confirm iPhones can be easily hacked
It is not unusual for iPhones to be hacked in ways that allow other users to access all your private details and even bypass your iPhone passwords. CNET, for example, independently confirmed that an iOS 6.1 hack ”lets users see your phone app, place calls.”
“CNET can confirm it works,” says the article. It goes on to explain the hack allows others to “access your phone application, listen to your voice mails, and place calls.”
iPhoneHacks.com also reports on a hack in iOS 7 that “allows anyone to make a phone call from the lockscreen.”
ZDnet also reports that iPhones can be “hacked in 60 seconds,” and the article even explains how it’s done.
None of these hacks are digital payload hacks installed using phone calls, of course, but they clearly demonstrate the vulnerabilities or back doors built into the iPhone operating system (iOS).
So why are people receiving repeated calls?
If all this is true, it begs the question of why people would be receiving repeated calls from the 865-6696 phone number. When I asked my contact why this would be happening, he answered that, in his belief, this program was a test rollout on the Sprint network only, and that testing was being done to establish human behavior patterns such as answer rates, hold times after answers, and payload install time requirements. This information could then be used to determine whether a more expanded rollout across other phone networks would make sense.
Skeptical of all this, I asked why the NSA couldn’t just install these surveillance programs in the phones when they are manufactured. Why bother with the complication of digital payloads? He answered that surveillance programs ARE installed at the factory, and that “all iPhones already ship with surveillance code installed,” but that older phones such as the iPhone 4 did not have the most up-to-date surveillance code installed and so needed to be remotely updated with the new code via the “digital payload” described in this article.
Personally, I’m not sure if I buy all that, but in an age where the NSA has now had to admit it routinely spies on nearly ALL phone calls of Americans, this scenario is no longer far-fetched. It may, in fact, be routine.
Bottom line? If you receive a call from 865-6696, don’t answer it.

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Mobile propaganda: California government blasts out text message to all mobile phone users
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J. D. Heyes
Natural News
August 9, 2013
There will be some who think it’s a great idea and an improvement to public safety (the old “it’s for your own good” argument), but it is something that has sinister implications: Sending out “alerts” over your cell phone, which is a technique critics say is a huge privacy issue, could also be used to spread government propaganda.
The Los Angeles Times reported recently that California residents were stunned and angered by a government-sponsored “Amber Alert” sent out to every cell phone in the state.
According to the paper:
[Aug. 5] marked the first time in California that officials notified the public of a statewide Amber Alert through their cellphones, a California Highway Patrol official said. It differed from phone to phone, but sometime between late [Aug. 5] and early [Aug. 6] many mobile phones across Southern California received an Amber Alert related to two missing children in San Diego.
The alert was sent to inform Californians that authorities were on the lookout for James Lee DiMaggio, who is suspected of killing Christina Anderson, 44, and kidnapping one or both of her children: Hannah Anderson, 16; and Ethan Anderson, 8.
Authorities found Christina’s body the night of Aug. 4 “in the burning rubble of a house in the rural community of Boulevard in eastern San Diego County,” the Times reported, citing authorities. Both children were most likely abducted around 5 p.m. Aug. 3, police said.
Coming soon: More mobile invasions of your privacy
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
While state police obviously thought sending the alert to residents’ cell phones – without their prior knowledge or permission – was a good idea, many Californians begged to differ.
Per the Times:
Residents across California were startled overnight by cellphones that came to life in screeches and buzzes, awaking some and unsettling others with the state’s first Amber Alert via text message.
Californians are no strangers to Amber Alerts, which are issued for critical child abductions. But for the first time Monday night, residents across the Southland experienced an Amber Alert issued via text message to their cellphones — and got the full complement of a 10-second spurt of high-pitched noise and buzzing.
According to the paper, most newer cell phones are set up to receive the alerts automatically. Though the messages are free, cell phone owners must contact their service provider to manually opt-out of the program.
“For those who didn’t have their phone on silent or vibrate, it brought a high-pitched beeping and buzzing that, overnight [Aug. 5] and into early [the next] morning, caught many residents off guard,” the Times reported.
“Come on. I’m driving to work enjoying MY music on my iPhone when in comes an amber alert on the phone with all its ugly buzzing noises,” one Californian tweeted.
“Am I the only one that got an amber alert on my phone? 0.0 screwed me up while I was driving…” tweeted another.
What’s wrong with asking first?
Some analysts and opinion writers have defended the cell phone-delivered alerts, citing the seriousness of the alleged crime and the fact that two children have been kidnapped. And they blasted those in the Twitterverse who poked fun at the alert and reacted to it.
“Yes, it might have helped if the message had been less cryptic. But now that we’ve all seen one, we should be able to recognize what such alerts are trying to tell us. If you’re out and about, look for a car matching the description and let the police know immediately if you see it. If not, recognize that the alert wasn’t meant for you and resume whatever you were doing, thankful that your family wasn’t the one that needed help,” wrote Jon Healy in the L.A. Times.
Here’s the thing: Just because something appears innocuous and helpful doesn’t make it so. The real question isn’t why some people reacted the way they did – that much is understandable, given the fact that the alert caught them completely off guard. Rather, it is why authorities decided on their own to just start sending the alerts without asking cell phone users whether it would be okay to invade their phones.
Most people are sympathetic to the situation highlighted in this particular case – a dead mother and two kidnapped children. But there is something to be said about the uniquely American principle of governing “with the consent of the governed.”
Sources:
http://www.latimes.com
http://www.forbes.com
http://www.naturalnews.com
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The Los Angeles Times reported recently that California residents were stunned and angered by a government-sponsored “Amber Alert” sent out to every cell phone in the state.
According to the paper:
[Aug. 5] marked the first time in California that officials notified the public of a statewide Amber Alert through their cellphones, a California Highway Patrol official said. It differed from phone to phone, but sometime between late [Aug. 5] and early [Aug. 6] many mobile phones across Southern California received an Amber Alert related to two missing children in San Diego.

Not me. Not on my California cell phone. Wanna know why? This will drive all you with constantly busy little thumbs plum nuts but here goes . . .

Years ago I called my carrier and told them to COMPLETELY DISABLE texting on my account. I was getting advertizing and I didn't like that one bit. I can see all those "gotta text every minute" types starting to break a cold sweat. I never did text anyway and I don't plan to ever start. Don't have Internet on my phone either. It does make and receive voice calls though.

Sounds like my phone is like your phone researcher...I don't even know how to text either, my phone is for me, not everybody else! My emergencies...etc!