ISLAMABAD: “Phone hacking has become so easy that if you leave your mobile phone somewhere and go to the washroom, I can connect and hack it before you return,” the head of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) told the Islamabad High Court (IHC), on Thursday.
This was the explanation provided by PTA Chairman Major-General Hafeezur Rehman to a bench headed by IHC Justice Babar Sattar during a hearing on the issue of audio leaks.
In earlier reports submitted to the court, the country’s spy agencies had also contended that phone calls could be tapped using mobile apps and viruses, and intelligence agencies were unable to trace the source of the hacking.
On Thursday, Maj-Gen Rehman told the court that 90 per cent of mobile phones contain ‘viruses’ that can operate inbuilt cameras, compromising users’ privacy.
