He might be corrupt to the bone. He might want to protect cell phone security to cover his own ass, but I still like where he comes down on this issue:
Rod Blagojevich: champion of cell phone security
Say what you want about the embattled Governor of Illinois, the guy’s been on the right side when it comes to mobile phone privacy. In 2006 Rod Blagojevich very publicly joined the campaign to protect consumers from “pretexting”—illegally hacking or fooling companies into disclosing customer cell phone records, then selling it over Web sites. His September 2006 letter to the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission expressed concern that even when an old cell phone’s memory is erased, it can be restored using software easily downloaded from the Internet.
“More alarming are the examples of the types of information that are all too easily available: information containing a company’s plan to win a multimillion-dollar federal contract, an individual’s personal medical history, and emails about a firm’s software license,” Blagojevich wrote.
Multimillion-dollar federal contract, eh? Just what your typical cell phone user keeps on their call log—maybe next to alleged plans to sell off a vacant United States Senate seat?
