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Title: NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones Post by: LiteCoinGuy on May 21, 2015, 03:31:36 PM NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones
The National Security Agency and its closest allies planned to hijack data links to Google and Samsung app stores to infect smartphones with spyware, a top-secret document reveals. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/21/nsa-five-eyes-google-samsung-app-stores-spyware/ Title: Re: NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones Post by: JohnnyBTCSeed on May 21, 2015, 04:00:16 PM Planned, succeeded...
one example. http://ivn.us/2014/10/01/phones-flashlight-app-stealing-data/ these apps are geo-locating the user and stealing their data. Title: Re: NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones Post by: Trifixion713 on May 21, 2015, 05:08:05 PM Planned, succeeded... one example. http://ivn.us/2014/10/01/phones-flashlight-app-stealing-data/ these apps are geo-locating the user and stealing their data. Quote However, anyone who downloads one of these apps is likely oblivious to the fact that even though the app is free, it takes more from the user than the user gets from the app. Quote "We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent." And with that being said, I believe it won't even have to be by conquest. Not at all. Title: Re: NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones Post by: Chef Ramsay on May 21, 2015, 06:27:11 PM Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely so it's no wonder that the secretive and ubiquitous NSA keeps doing whatever they and are so brash about it. You give them an inch and they take a mile which is why they really need to be reigned in by Congress and not be allowed to be a rogue agency anymore.
Title: Re: NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones Post by: Bit_Happy on May 21, 2015, 06:30:20 PM Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely so it's no wonder that the secretive and ubiquitous NSA keeps doing whatever they and are so brash about it. You give them an inch and they take a mile which is why they really need to be reigned in by Congress and not be allowed to be a rogue agency anymore. Sounds great, but it could be really hard to actually get them to stop, even if "officially" they have to follow a clear set of standards. |