Is it possible to listen in or "tap" a mobile phone?

[purpleduck]

I feel really really about this - and ever so slightly paranoid.... my dh and I split in March - things were very much hanging by a thread for about a year.
In Aug of last year, we had a conversation and he had said "every text, every email, every mn entry, I know about"
I can't remember if he said telephone conversation too. Since then I have looked a few things up on the internet and it seems shockingly easy to spy on someone's mobile.

He works in telecomms and is very very clever.

I feel really vulnerable! Does anyone know if its possible, and what can be done (if anything) to protect myself?

I'd change my number - and preferably my network too. Hope you're okay.

Purple - very little is 100% secure. SirBoob's advice is always good - change your number, email address, network service, etc.; but having said that if he is in the field and has access to certain tools, he will possibly be able to "sniff" or "capture" your traffic (things you send and receive) regardless. It would not be legal for him to do in most places but unlikely he'd ever be caught.

Sadly, the best advice I can give would be to never type anything and send it anywhere that you don't want to have come back to bite you.

This doesn't likely make you feel any better but the most technologically "secure" thing to do is always assume that anything you type is accessible to anyone, forever.

It's certainly possible. It's also illegal, and if he works in telecomms and is indeed tapping your phone/internet, he would lose his job.

If you have suspicions, you should report it to the police.

I'm not sure why I am worried about it now - maybe because he has mentioned getting a solicitor about other things. And I guess because he TOLD me that....

I would take your computer into the shop and ask them to check for any spyware .. I can't remember what the name is but there is a programme you can load onto computers where it shows the person who is watching everything you have done, typed, websites visited, etc. Seriously .. I never knew it existed until my sister in law told me that her new boyfriend had done this to his ex-wife's computer.

So if your ex husband has done this to your computer and is reading this, hopefully he won't be able to for much longer !!!!

Sounds like he had monitoring software on your PC. Very easy to install without any sort of cleverness. If he put it on a pc/laptop that belonged to you, it is illegal. If he put it on a shared one, that's more of a grey area.

As for mobile phone and text monitoring. Yes, definitely possible with certain equipment that is available on the black market. He cannot bring any of it into a court of law though as it would be illegal to do so - even MI5 aren't allowed to bring in phone taps to court evidence (I think, they are trying to change the law).