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NSA planned to use the Play Store to implant spyware on target smartphones

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source: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/21/nsa-five-eyes-google-samsung-app-stores-spyware/

 

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The top-secret document, obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was published Wednesday by CBC News in collaboration with The Intercept. The document outlines a series of tactics that the NSA and its counterparts in the Five Eyes were working on during workshops held in Australia and Canada between November 2011 and February 2012.
 
The main purpose of the workshops was to find new ways to exploit smartphone technology for surveillance. The agencies used the Internet spying system XKEYSCORE to identify smartphone traffic flowing across Internet cables and then to track down smartphone connections to app marketplace servers operated by Samsung and Google. (Google declined to comment for this story. Samsung said it would not be commenting “at this time.”)
 
As part of a pilot project codenamed IRRITANT HORN, the agencies were developing a method to hack and hijack phone users’ connections to app stores so that they would be able to send malicious “implants” to targeted devices. The implants could then be used to collect data from the phones without their users noticing.

 

 

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whoopty doo "no comment" mister effin' google  <_<

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" Murica ! "

... Life is a game and the checkpoints are your birthday , you will face challenges where you may not get rewarded afterwords but those are the challenges that help you improve yourself . Always live for tomorrow because you may never know when your game will be over ... I'm totally not going insane in anyway , shape or form ... I just have broken English and an open mind ... 

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Like there is not a method that allows them to do it either way?  <_<
If they want to do it, they will do it.

The ability to google properly is a skill of its own. 

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Fear sells.

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Fear sells.

Only for as long as it appears to be legitimate, and the general populous doesn't realize you only promote fear to strengthen your own position.

 

Really starting to wonder if we'll ever get out from under this government. We seriously need a convention of states to remove them ALL from power and re-constitute the government into what it should be. A true democracy instead of this BS "representative" system that's only led us to corruption.

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That's why I'm using Nokia 3310

The only phone that will break the floor when it falls.

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That's why I'm using Nokia 3310. Technology surely herded people like sheep. 

Can you still get those?

 

Kinda want one.

Ketchup is better than mustard.

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Dubs are better than subs

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The only phone that will break the floor when it falls.

Seriously it has multiple advantages, using it as weapon, and avoiding from being spied on. ^^

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Can you still get those?

 

Kinda want one.

It is still available for 9 bucks in the country. :lol:

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" Murica ! "

 

"NSA and its counterparts in the Five Eyes"

 

So, not just "Murica". The UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada were also part of this.

 

 

For **** sake Five Eyes what the hell were you thinking? It's like Hydra/Shield in real life. I agree with the two above me, Nokia here I come.

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"NSA and its counterparts in the Five Eyes"

 

So, not just "Murica". The UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada were also part of this.

 

 

For **** sake Five Eyes what the hell were you thinking? It's like Hydra/Shield in real life. I agree with the two above me, Nokia here I come.

 

Yup ... 

 

It's funny how 1st world countries are starting to move backwards and developing countries moving forward  :P

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Not even gonna read the article, but the NSA can suck my asshole.

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Can you imagine all the dickpics they would have to sort through?

 

why would they want that?

why do so many good cases only come in black and white

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Can you imagine all the dickpics they would have to sort through?

 

why would they want that?

that's the whole point! :P

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Can you imagine all the dickpics they would have to sort through?

 

why would they want that?

 

NSA = National Scrotum Agency?

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Not even gonna read the article, but the NSA can suck my asshole.

they will totally hate that after what i did to it last night

 

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they will totally hate that after what i did to it last night

 

 

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Screw them, and everything they do, all useless.

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And this is why I use Google's services as little as possible.

Considering hte attendees, I'm guessing it was mostly about phone security. If it was about PC, Microsoft would have been there too.

We really need a new phone OS that has no affiliation with any tech company. Something built and maintained by a bunch of good hackers. Mr Torvalds, are you reading this?

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