As a special service hack smartphones – Dni.Ru

09:36 / 06.10.2015 NSA, UK, surveillance, smart, Snowden, intelligence agencies, the US Espionage A former member of the US special services Edward Snowden told about the methods by which users of smartphones under surveillance. He stressed that to the user is almost impossible to know that his phone now belongs not only to him and carefully collects and reports “on the side” information about its owner.

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As part of the BBC BBC “Panorama” was a film by Peter Taylor, “Edward Snowden: spies and the law”, in which an ex-employee US intelligence officials revealed some secrets regarding information security. He stressed that ordinary users virtually nothing to do in order to somehow protect their privacy from invasion.

In particular, Edward Snowden said that the Office of Government Communications UK (GCHQ) can hack smartphones sending encrypted messages without the user’s knowledge. After that special services can listen to what is going through your speakers, take pictures, keep track of the movement. Management uses “complex Smurfs” (Smurf suite) – a set of special programs and methods for data interception, named in honor of the heroes of children’s comic books, cartoons and movies.

“ Dreamy Smurf ” controls powered phone. With its help the security services can turn on and off the machine without the owner’s knowledge. “ Curious smurf ” controls the microphone, allowing you to listen to everything that is happening around. “ Smurf-tracker ” – the mechanism of geolocation, which allows you to track the movement of a person with greater accuracy than that obtained with a standard verification using vyshey cellular communication.

“ Paranoid smurf “is necessary in order to mask the presence of other programs. “This is a self-defense mechanism, protecting the manipulation of your phone from GCHQ. For example, if you assign your phone for repair, as you notice that it is doing something weird, or you suspect that something is wrong, then this mechanism make so that any technique is much more difficult to realize that something is wrong, “- said Edward Snowden.

After gaining access to the phone user GCHQ takes control over the device completely . Agency users can see who called, I wrote in a text message which sites are visited, in what place there is, to some Wi-Fi networks was connected, who brought in a list of contacts. Moreover, the phone can take photos without the consent of the owner.

All of this

becomes possible after one text message came on the phone. And people do not even see it. “This is called” exploit “(the invasion. – Approx. Ed.). It is specially prepared message, which is sent to your room as well as any other text message. But when it comes to your phone, it is up to you Private “, – explained Snowden.

” They say, and in many cases this is true, they will not read your e-mails, for example, but they can do it, and if they do, then you this will never know “, – said the former US intelligence officer. Technology is used to spy on people suspected of terrorism or other serious crimes, but before that the secret services must be checked almost everyone to find out whether the surveillance specifically for them.

In addition, GCHQ closely with the NSA, two structures work in one direction, and exchange data, technology, the collected material. The British government refused to comment on the issue, referring to the “long-standing practice”.

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