Smart Phones facilitates the work of spies

It would be naive to believe that foreign intelligence services would find it difficult to access recordings of conversations of African leaders simply because this company is private. In fact, a number of companies in the technical and electronic fields are often blankets for the intelligence services. And multinational companies still contribute to the strategic positioning for their countries.

It appears that the history of the 200 and more Nigerian schoolgirls abducted was merely a pretext to justify the presence of foreign forces in the region. If Cameroon has so far resisted their presence, it has authorized the over flight in its territory foreign drones that according to Western powers would assist in the location of these young girls.

These countries now use this permission to collect information about our troops that they communicate to Boko Haram, in addition to the intercepted telephone communications of personalities, especially those involved in the management of the conflict.

If there is nothing much that Cameroon can do compared to drones, then the Cameroonian authorities may, however, take steps to protect themselves from wiretapping which they are subjected. It is certainly not necessary to explain why Governments, especially should guard against this activity, as this is so obvious.

There is no friendship between State entities competing permanently for vital space, influence and wealth and whose interests are often conflicting. They listen to all, allies or adversaries to collect economic, financial, commercial or military information. The information obtained can be used to know the strategies economic or military, the morale of their troops, the State of mind of the leaders, the weak points of individuals in sensitive positions to corruption, manipulation, blackmail and finally to plant spies.

In the particular case of our country, the targets of eavesdropping are varied ranging from the president of the Republic (a target) and member of the Government until the businessmen passing through some judges of the Supreme Court, some deputies and senators, generals and colonels.

If foreign countries use blithely NGOs in their work of spying, tapping of telephone conversations are the most used way in African countries because African leaders are ignorant of this intense activity.

It would be naive to believe that foreign intelligence services would find it difficult to access recordings of conversations of African leaders simply because this company is private. In fact, a number of companies in the technical fields and electronic are often blankets for the intelligence services. And multinational companies still contribute to the strategic positioning of their countries.

The new mobile phones called in English "Smart Phones" have facilitated the work of spies. Not only these phones are easier to intercept than fixed lines, but they can also give the geographical position of the person in possession of it.

It suffices just to have this relatively simple equipment and to be at a certain distance from a person using her phone to intercept the conversation. In addition these phones when used as landlines can be activated to certain distances to be transformed into microphones that transmit any conversation taking place in the place where the phone is located.