Cloned Mobiles Flood Korean Market

Hardly a single day passes without cloning making headlines here in Korea. This time, it is about cell phones, not stem cells involving the troubled scientist Hwang Woo-suk. Korea Times reports.

"The Central Radio Management Office (CRMO) Monday said it had seized 6,574 illegally-cloned handsets last year, roughly eight times more than 858 in 2004.

... Experts point out the cloned phones are problematic when they are in the hands of criminals who might use them to conceal their identity while committing crimes through the handheld gadgets.

The cloned phones also raise the concern that they might be used to overhear conversations of legitimate phone owners. "

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