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Smartphones can be hacked into with just one text message and then used to spy on their owners.

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This applies to anyone who has a smartphone, personally I believe this is really frightening stuff for the future of smartphones.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/edward-snowden-smartphones-can-be-hacked-into-with-just-one-text-message-and-then-used-to-spy-on-a6680546.html

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Didnt read the whole article, but android? ios? Windows?

Read it, it's not very long.

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Just a full copypasta, 'cause news isn't my thing...

 

 

The world’s spying agencies have tools that allow them to take over smartphones with just a text message, according to Edward Snowden, and there is “very little” that their owners can do to stop it.

The UK’s intelligence agency has a suite of tools that let it listen on phones and their owners, Snowden told the BBC’s Panorama in Moscow. All spies would need to do is send a special text message and they will be able to gain access to the camera and its microphones, the BBC reported Snowden as saying.

The set of tools is called “Smurf Suite”, according to Snowden. Each of the individual tools has their own name — “Dreamy Smurf” lets the phone be powered on and off, for instance, and “Nosey Smurf” lets spies turn the microphone on and listen in on users, even if the phone itself is turned off.

GCHQ even has a tool called “Paranoid Smurf” that hides the fact that it has taken control of the phone. The tool will stop people from recognising that the phone has been tampered with if it is taken in for a service, for instance.

The comments mirror those by Snowden earlier in the year, when his lawyer said that the whistleblower doesn’t use an iPhone because it “has special software that can activate itself without the owner having to press a button and gather information about him, that’s why on security grounds he refused to have this phone”.“For example, if you wanted to take the phone in to get it serviced because you saw something strange going on or you suspected something was wrong, it makes it much more difficult for any technician to realise that anything's gone amiss,” Snowden said.

The text message used to gain access to the phone wouldn’t be seen by its user and they would have no idea that it had arrived, Snowden said.

"That's a specially crafted message that's texted to your number like any other text message but when it arrives at your phone it's hidden from you,” Snowden said. “It doesn't display. You paid for it [the phone] but whoever controls the software owns the phone."

 
A spokesperson for the UK government told the BBC that it does not comment on intelligence matters but that its spying work is carried out within a “strict legal and policy framework”.

 

Everything you need to know is in the source, no quote buttons on mobile?

This applies to anyone who has a smartphone, personally I believe this is really frightening stuff for the future of smartphones.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/edward-snowden-smartphones-can-be-hacked-into-with-just-one-text-message-and-then-used-to-spy-on-a6680546.html

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Who gives a fuck tho. 

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There are more than 7 BILLION (7,000,000,000) mobiles in the world.

 

Show me infrastructure that can efficiently hack a quarter of that and I'll be blown away.

 

No one cares about you.  Not even the cunts at the NSA.

 

(Saying that though I do appreciate that invasion of privacy is revolting and quite humiliating for the USA and UK, but in reality it won't affect anyone here, anyone you know or anyone they know.)

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its bad and all, but where would i get this text message from? definitly not on amazon

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its bad and all, but where would i get this text message from? definitly not on amazon

 

Also, how frequently do people go through phones?  I for one change mine each year, sometime 1.5-2 years.  This is just a nothing claim.

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Also, how frequently do people go through phones?  I for one change mine each year, sometime 1.5-2 years.  This is just a nothing claim.

idk, i had a slidephone and a smart phone in the last 19 years, starting 6 years ago, so i guess im a bit slow :P

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i call bullshit how can you take control of a phone that isnt switched on?

 

is  he just trying to remind everyone he is still here?

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Oh there's plenty I can do to prevent this. Burn my smartphone, and go back to a flip phone. Problem solved.

 

There are more than 7 BILLION (7,000,000,000) mobiles in the world.

 

Show me infrastructure that can efficiently hack a quarter of that and I'll be blown away.

 

No one cares about you.  Not even the cunts at the NSA.

 

(Saying that though I do appreciate that invasion of privacy is revolting and quite humiliating for the USA and UK, but in reality it won't affect anyone here, anyone you know or anyone they know.)

 

For the Nth time, IT. IS. NOT. ABOUT. WHETHER. OR. NOT. THEY. ARE. WATCHING. YOU. RIGHT. NOW.

 

It's about the fact that it can ALL be stored into a neat little searchable database, that lasts for who knows how long, and you have no control over. Sure, only the government has access to it right now, MAYBE, but in 10 or 20 years? Who's to say if/when corporations get access to it?

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There are more than 7 BILLION (7,000,000,000) mobiles in the world.

 

Show me infrastructure that can efficiently hack a quarter of that and I'll be blown away.

 

No one cares about you.  Not even the cunts at the NSA.

 

(Saying that though I do appreciate that invasion of privacy is revolting and quite humiliating for the USA and UK, but in reality it won't affect anyone here, anyone you know or anyone they know.)

 

Yet they passed around people's nudes like it was funny internally in the NSA....Okay they don't care about us right? They have access to our information when they please and they can do as the please with zero repercussions that's the problem. It is irrelevant whether they are watching you right now, its a slippery slope. These are the first steps to an Orwellian society.

 

I'm not even a tinfoil hat wearing person but don't be so naive.

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This one i dont believe it just doesnt hold any water

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No one cares about you.  Not even the cunts at the NSA.

While you may lead an incredibly boring, mediocre, pointless, etc. life, some people do important things that would be of interest to agencies such as the NSA who are tasked with maintaining the status quo.

 

I wish someone in the mainstream media would acknowledge this sh*t. I'd be nice to not be called a 'conspiracy theorists' when I tell someone that mentioning the NSA.... You know the story.

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his lawyer said that the whistleblower doesn’t use an iPhone because it “has special software that can activate itself without the owner having to press a button and gather information about him, that’s why on security grounds he refused to have this phone”.

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Lets say that a country that isn't too legit has this sort of tools, that would cause alot of problems, if one that uses this device, gets a creative idea or such, and all of a suddenly, someone else comes up with this idea as their own, yet stolen through the device. I honestly believe that is not unheard, as countries like North Korea (Just an example) would rather give one of their own citizens this information and get credit, than someone else, when they allready got the info.

 

I know that sounds kinda tin foil hat, and honestly im not into all this shit, but that was my cents.

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Lets say that a country that isn't too legit has this sort of tools, that would cause alot of problems, if one that uses this device, gets a creative idea or such, and all of a suddenly, someone else comes up with this idea as their own, yet stolen through the device. I honestly believe that is not unheard, as countries like North Korea (Just an example) would rather give one of their own citizens this information and get credit, than someone else, when they allready got the info.

I know that sounds kinda tin foil hat, and honestly im not into all this shit, but that was my cents.

In Canada and the USA they already label environmental protesters (they're just being politically active) as possible threats and possible domestic terrorists. This kind of thing could easily be abused and used against those people.

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Also, this tech already exists in apps like where's my droid. Why wouldn't a backdoor exist for phone makers and spying agencies to use?

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Only people complaining are the ones who are hiding something. I think it is good (only in Government hands). Imagine if they did not have all these tracking things, then there would be terrorists and who knows what. I mean hell, I would rather the Government have it than some random guy who managed to hack it to get my information.

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Only people complaining are the ones who are hiding something. I think it is good (only in Government hands). Imagine if they did not have all these tracking things, then there would be terrorists and who knows what. I mean hell, I would rather the Government have it than some random guy who managed to hack it to get my information.

Have you ever paid attention in history at school? Did you ever hear about how Nazi Germany made Jewish people register as Jewish on their passports and documentation? Do you recall how that turned out? Those people had nothing to hide and look what happened to them, now you can argue all you like about how that won't happen with this, but that is exactly what everyone said about what the Nazi's were doing.

No government should be trusted with this kind of access, even if they aren't doing anything with the data now doesn't mean that they won't in the future, the 2 British people killed in drone strikes were killed on this kind of intelligence without being given a fair trial, how long before that becomes the norm for any kind of political dissident? Sure, they probably deserved to die, and we probably were right in killing them, but we can't claim to be a democracy without democratic processes, and killing someone without proper judicial process goes against everything that democracy stands for, surely that should be enough to make you consider just how dangerous mass surveillance actually is.

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Only people complaining are the ones who are hiding something. I think it is good (only in Government hands). Imagine if they did not have all these tracking things, then there would be terrorists and who knows what. I mean hell, I would rather the Government have it than some random guy who managed to hack it to get my information.

 

 

1:28 to 5:30 deals specifically with the "nothing to hide" argument.  But be sure to watch the rest too. 

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