Wives and other relatives of British soldiers serving in Iraq have been receiving death threats-- from Iraq. According to the Sunday Telegraph, insurgents are obtaining the numbers by intercepting mobile phone signals from servicemen calling home.
What would have taken the Nazis a major spy network and a ton of equipment can now be achieved by one semi-literate Jihadist with a couple of hundred quid worth of hacking gear.
Scary.
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