In recent years, burner phones have become an obligatory part of the international business traveler’s toolkit. But though these devices are designed to minimize the amount of stored data available for capture by malicious actors in a foreign country, burner phones actually give attackers an opening to another, potentially more valuable, form of data: conversations that occur during key meetings in the vicinity of the device.
In this article, I’ll explore the threat of mobile eavesdropping targeting the burner phones of executives and other corporate employees traveling to high-risk countries and look at some mitigations for this emerging risk.
The evolution of technical eavesdropping
Though videoconferencing has made it possible for corporate executives to instantly traverse the globe, face-to-face meetings are still preferable for critical tasks like partnership discussions, sales and business development, corporate or legal negotiations, strategic planning, rese ..
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