Do you think that your cell phone conversations and text messages are private? If you do, you’d better think again.

Your cell phone conversations can be ‘tapped’ easily by anyone who is willing to spend a few bucks on software that can turn your cell phone into a spying device. Anybody can buy this software and use it. After buying and installing software like FlexiSPY anybody could transform your phone into a spy tool that records all of your calls, texts, and even your location via GPS. If you have a cell phone your privacy is basically nonexistent. The list of features includes remote listening, taking control of the phone by SMS, text and email logging, call history, location tracking, call interception, and GPS tracking. This software can even do all of this even if the phone is turned off unless the battery has been removed.

The website says things like “catch cheating spouses”, “protect your kids”, and “bug meeting rooms”, but doing any of those things without permission is unlawful. It is a serious breach of privacy to bug somebodies cell phone without their knowledge and I wouldn’t encourage anybody to do that unless it’s absolutely necessary. This is powerful technology, and is a perfect example of how something could be used badly if it gets into the wrong hands. In this case, it can get into the hands of anyone willing to fork over some cash.

Software like FlexiSpy has been used many times to harass people and even ruin lives. Just look at the Kuykendall family’s troubles. Courtney Kuykendall’s cell phone first started sending text messages to her friends by itself, after that came harassing phone calls and death threats. The stalker could tell them what they were wearing, where they were, and what they were saying at any time of the day or night. The Kuykendall’s said it was like being in a horror movie, and the police couldn’t do anything about it or even figure out how it was possible. All this was made possible by software like FlexiSPY. I can only imagine what corrupt authorities and governments could do with this sort of tech.

What can you do to protect yourself from what happened to Courtney Kuykendall? First of all you should always set a password on your cell phone and do not share it with anyone. The software has to be installed on the phone being tracked so keeping people out of your cell phone is very important. Don’t leave your cell phone lying around or out of sight without a password. One of the few ways to make absolutely sure that nobody is listening to your conversations is to take out the battery. You can also buy anti-virus/anti-spyware software for your cell phone as well which will stop most cell phone spying software. You can find a good cellular anti-spyware software at S-Mobile.

Related articles:

• New spyware lets you monitor cell phone activity (comsecllc.blogspot.com)
• Lok8u: GPS wristwatch keeps tabs on kids (crunchgear.com)
• iZUP – Using Phone GPS to Stop Cell Phone Use While Driving (jkontherun.com)
• Is your cell phone spying on you? (comsecllc.blogspot.com)

I have secretly been practicing writing with my left hand. I am going to learn to write with both hands equally as well, and here’s why I think it’s a good idea:

Aside from the obvious reason being that if I injure my right hand and am unable to write with it sometime in the future I will already know how to write with my left hand and won’t have to struggle trying to  learn at that point. Let’s hope that never happens, but most people think that is the only good reason to learn to write with both hands. Well it is not the only good reason  or even the best reason to learn to be more ambidextrous.

“By teaching both sides of the brain, society could look forward to a wonderful new world of two-handed, two-brained citizens, with untold benefits for health, intelligence, handicrafts, sport, schoolwork, industry, and the military…If required, one hand shall be writing an original letter, and the other shall be playing the piano…with no diminution in the power of concentration.”

John Jackson

It’s been shown that people who are more ambidextrous, or mixed handed, have thicker corpus callosum development in the brain. The corpus callosum is the tissue that connects the two halves of the brain (the left and right hemispheres). People who are mixed handed have also been shown to be better able to ‘read people’ and recall details better than left or right handed people.

Many of you have probably heard that the left brain controlls the right hand and the right brain controls the left hand. What many folks don’t know is that the left side of the brain is responsible for logical, linear, rational, analytical, and objective thinking. The right brain is responsible for intuitive, artistic, creative, holistic, and subjective thinking and looks at ‘wholes’ instead of parts. So, most of us right handed people are likely going to be more left brained thinkers. The benefit of learning to write with both hands is to work both sides of the brain and to be a more “whole brained” thinker. I suspect that learning to write with my left hand may help improve right brain functions.

Learning to write with both hands will help develop a thicker corpus callosum and may increase abilities in artistic, creative, and intuitive areas. I learned a lot about the functions of left/right brains when I did an intense 2 years of Remote Viewing training. I think that learning to write with the left hand will increase ability to do Remote Viewing as well, but this is just speculation at this point.

To learn to write with my left hand I am going to write out the alphabet and the numbers on a paper every day. Today will be the first day, and I have recorded a quick little clip of the first attempt on youtube, so have a look at that. I will do another video in a month or so to show the improvements.

Why you should learn to write with both hands

click here to watch at youtube.com

Related articles:

• Do brains work differently for lefties, righties? (canada.com)
• Are lefties more creative? Study suggests it’s not so clear (thestar.com)
• Boost Your Creativity With Eye Movement (scientificamerican.com)