How the NSA can 'turn on' your phone remotely
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Below is all I could find.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCcKk8R0LFI
http://www.pcworld.com/article/216842/coming_soon_a_new_way_...
Is anyone else cautious when receiving free electronics? I'm always suspicious that it could be bugged by a rival company (from another country) or possess malware such as http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429394/placeraider-the-...
Also, this seems dangerous: http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/20/technology/security/drone-ph...
Last article: This is why you should put tape over your smartphone cam. Imagine what criminals (ex. burglars) could do using such technology. Correct me if I'm wrong here -- but I find it surprising that most people care to put tape over their laptop cam but not on their smartphone, why is this?
Cell phones often have a good view of the inside of a pocket.
Nitpicker's corner: Your usage patterns may differ.
As far as how easy, you just need the right hardware and software.
Their second suggestion, "create a barrier" is hard to test for reliability. Just because your phone thinks it has too-poor signal to connect a call doesn't necessarily mean that it is truly isolated and can't be a room bug.
Pulling the battery is a reliable way to make the phone safe.
And/or recording audio to send home later.
Disinformation is intentionally false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately
Disinformation is prevention of awareness (not informed at all).
Misinformation is intentionally false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately (informed with mistakes).
...but I see what you did there.
When I say 'broadly understood', I mean that it is the reasonable understanding you should come away with if you consult some reference like a dictionary or encyclopedia, it's what they say.
Example: Disrespect. Respect is immutable, you either have it or you don't. It's either provided or absent, but does not manifest itself in malignant forms.
Example: Mistrial. A trial has already has already happened, and is found to be problematic. It cannot be reversed, and its results cannot me revoked, only amended. The events happened, and were wrong.
Conclusion: Disinformation is socially engineered ignorance, misiformation is socially engineered misunderstanding.
Disinformation: The water is pure.
Misinformation: You might notice that the water has a funny taste, but it is uncontaminated, and the taste is benign and harmless.
Another example:
I disinform you of my user account by never telling you I use this website, and never browse it in a way that would give away my participation, even though we are co-workers, and I eat lunch with you every day. I always tell you about awesome articles and online reading material, but I never reveal how I found them.
You disinform me of your awareness of my user account, by never hinting that you saw me through my bedroom window, two night's ago, sitting at my computer browsing this site and responding to a thread. Yesterday, we ate lunch, and I told you about that "Door To Hell" Wikipedia article. You ask how I found it, and I misinform you that I used wikipedia's random article link.
Today, you confront me face-to-face about what you witnessed, and I misinform you that my user account is "pavement", and I only just started using this site five days ago. I lie to your face and tell you that I'm unfamiliar with the "tritium" account.
And regardless of the common parlance, or the tendency of usage, disinformation still draws its latin prefix from absence or denial, misinformation draws its latin prefix from errors and problems.
You can slang it up any way you want, but the origin of each word still stands.
As always, if you're targeted, you're probably toast no matter what you do, short of going off-grid in a remote but populated area with absolutely no tech on or near you, and cash, no plastic.
Even the accelerometer in a phone can be used to record keystrokes from a keyboard. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligenc...
Even WiFi can potentially be hacked to map/pinpoint people in a room/building.
Must be a fun time to be a spy with everyone putting numerous bugs, sensors, and cameras in their work and home willingly.
Whether any government would ever support such a move is a different question, of course. I suspect not in the current climate, because they'd fear losing their own intelligence capabilities against targets they wanted to single out legitimately. However, I also get the feeling that the tide is finally turning against the "mass surveillance/database state" in the general public consciousness and not just for geeks and civil liberties campaigners. Probably not at the next major electoral cycles but maybe in the ones afterwards, I suspect preserving personal privacy will be a political issue with some real weight, and this kind of issue will be part of that debate.
However, if all of the phones are bugged anyway, if they all work like tracking devices and if the carriers (e.g. Vodafone) are completely happy with being complicit with that, then it makes sense to have phones available for a low price and with not lot of background checks going on.
The only safe way to use a phone (if you have something to hide) is to not have one and social engineer others into 'lending' you there phone on a fake pretext of your battery being dead etc. and then to call a number where there is no expectation of bugging going on.