'Five Eyes' Governments Planned To Hack Google's App Store To Send Malware To Users

[Guest]

Snowden documents show that the NSA, along with other "Five Eyes" spy agencies, planned to hack Google's app store in order to grab information from their targets' smartphones.

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[RCguitarist]

Good for them.

 

[Diozark]

Yup

 

[merikafyeah]

More and more reasons why Snowden was and is a hero. Without him we may have never learned about so much fvckery happening behind the scenes that even our fiction fails to horrify as much as plain reality does. The real traitors are those subverting the constitution and spying on anyone and everyone without any real oversight or control.

 

[humorific]

Planned? How do we they haven't already succeeded?

 

[cats_Paw]

Planned? How do we they haven't already succeeded?

They already have... NSA has malware in almost every HDD on the planet, Russia had a VIrus in the USA Stock Exchange... what is a weak APP for them?
If you got some secret plans to dominate the world or enslave humanity, you might be smart NOT TO TALK about it.

And that is true in E-Mail, normal Mail, or person to person conversation.
Oh and.... If you ahve any Private photos, keep them on a separate PC, that you never connect to the Internet or your phone...

 

[vir_cotto]

If you ahve any Private photos, keep them on a separate PC, that you never connect to the Internet or your phone...

You forget about Howler Monkey though, even if you have them connected to nothing if they have implanted this device they will be able to access it anyways! Howler Monkey is old tech too, I'm sure they have improved and shrunk it down!

"HOWLERMONKEY is a custom Short to Medium range implant RF Transceiver. It is used in conjunction with a digital core to provide a complete implant"

 

[jimmysmitty]

More and more reasons why Snowden was and is a hero. Without him we may have never learned about so much fvckery happening behind the scenes that even our fiction fails to horrify as much as plain reality does. The real traitors are those subverting the constitution and spying on anyone and everyone without any real oversight or control.

Only in the US does the constitution even apply. Anywhere else, well a lot of other countries are base on much older laws so civilians don't have as many supposed rights.

And while I would agree with you that what is being done is wrong, the one problem I have with Snowden is that some of the information he revealed put peoples lives at risk, even people who are doing only what they are told.

Either way, what he did will change nothing. People will eventually forget about it and move on and the same thing will happen again. Hell I don't think the majority of Americans even care. Look at how openly they use the internet and post/send pictures. Sending a picture via text means it will be on a server somewhere forever. It doesn't just go from phone to phone. Even the text messages are there. Same with emails.