NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones

[LiteCoinGuy]

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/

[JohnnyBTCSeed]

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.

[Trifixion713]

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.

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.

"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.

[Chef Ramsay]

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.

[Bit_Happy]

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.