New Penalty For Annoying Phone Calls

Trace them and track the bastards down and kill them. via Telegraph

Wives and family members of soldiers fighting in Iraq have received telephone calls, believed to include death threats, from insurgents, according to military documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph.

The document warns soldiers preparing to take part in operations that insurgents in southern Iraq have managed to obtain the home telephone numbers of soldiers by using electronic intercept devices to hack into mobile phone systems.

Comments

[Yawilliamoni]

I agree Dan. Hunt the fuckers down! Israel has tried diplomacy and pacifism for the past fiddy years, but it hasn't worked. Time to do a little ol' thing called "eye for an eye." If Israel had decided to occupy Gaza after 1967 instead of giving it back to the Arabs, this NEVER would have happened!

[rwilymz]

WHOA!! I thought spying on phone calls was illegal! Did the insurgents, er, rather, "freedom fighters" have a warrant?

Send the ACLU after 'em!

[goodgirl.]

oh so now that someone outside of our country is listening in on phone calls its all of a sudden bad.... hello what the heck do you think is really going on. they just wanna see how much fun our own damn goverment had listening in on phone calls.

[*flo*]

Is this a possible excuse for the VA laptop thief, '25 plus million' veteran and active duty info was in that laptop...then you have the 26k Navy personnel social security numbers found on a website just the other day...A few years ago, if someone talked or reported cyber stalking, phone tapping/hacking, authorities questioned your coherance before stating, due to lack resources, law enforcement would not pursue any investigation unless a kidnap or death was committed... phone companies today need to be forced to investigate complaints, either by a law suit or the Attorney General. With new culture TxT messaging, electronic devices, Cyberterrorism does need to be taken more serious.

[cranky]

goodgirl:

Right after the government listens in on your phone calls they call you up and threaten you with death? Stay right where you are, the black helicopters will be by to pick you up soon.

[Lora]

The barbaric and thoughtless approach of "hunt the fuckers down!" is what got everyone into this bloody mess in the first place. Diplomacy may be slow going but its long term effects are on the whole positive.

[Doug]

The barbaric and thoughtless approach of "hunt the fuckers down!" is what got everyone into this bloody mess in the first place. Diplomacy may be slow going but its long term effects are on the whole positive.

That's just silly.