Spyware demo shows how spooks hack mobile phones

Would installing this spyware require physical access to the device (eg. flashing the ROM?) If so, that's kind of boring, because with physical access to the phone I could just put my own bug with its own mic, using it's own power & network inside the phone's case and easily read all your data without modifying anything on the phone or giving any "tells" like increasing network usage.

Also presumably if law enforcement needed to listen in, there would be better ways to do so than to physically steal your phone... like subpoenaing the phone company.

> source code for the programme had been dumped online by hackers

No references to online source or even the malware's name is made in the article. Does anyone have more information on this?

Hm, is there currently any mobile anti-virus software available that would have caught and blocked the Hacking Team exploits before the reveal?

Are there actually any "standard" security procedures for mobile? I suppose a vast majority of customers simply trust OS vendors to release a secure environment.

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I think not.

Spooks? 😨 Must be brit slang.. Lol