[LINK] The Athens Affair

[jim birch]

Interesting (longish) article on a sophisticated operation tapping of the
mobile phones of a number of Greek politicians and others.

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul07/5280

The perpetrators installed "rootkits" (~6500 lines of code) in several base
stations that took over legal wiretap systems, hid their presence, and
routed conversations to other mobiles held by some other people.   One or
more of these people frequented a particular Athens hotel on one or more
occasions.  Otherwise, nothing much is known about the perpetrators, except
for one phone company manager - found hung in his apartment - who was
presumably involved in some way.

The scam ran for around 6 months in 2004/5 before being detected
accidentally.

Jim