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NSA and GCHQ target 'leaky' phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data
UK Guardian ^
| January 27, 2014
| James Ball
Posted on 01/27/2014 10:58:33 AM PST by C19fan
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More stuff courtesy of Snowden.
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posted on
01/27/2014 10:58:33 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: null and void
To: C19fan
Well damn...gonna have to delete it I guess.
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posted on
01/27/2014 11:07:23 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: C19fan
That’s nothing - some popular game apps access your computer’s camera and microphone, and send that data to the developers.
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posted on
01/27/2014 11:13:11 AM PST
by
Fido969
(What's sad is most)
To: C19fan
Hell, NSA and its overseas counterparts are probably involved in *designing* some of these apps.
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posted on
01/27/2014 11:17:45 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: C19fan
"Continuous and selective publication of specific techniques and tools lawfully used by NSA to pursue legitimate foreign intelligence targets is detrimental to the security of the United States and our allies and places at risk those we are sworn to protect."
Like nasty Tea Party Conservatives and people who don't like Obammy...
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posted on
01/27/2014 11:52:06 AM PST
by
Dallas59
(Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
so they are spying to see if somebody beat there highscore at angry birds?
To: C19fan
Now they don’t have to break into your place and plant listening devices in your cable box. Think how much money this saves the government.
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posted on
01/27/2014 12:04:45 PM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
To: Dallas59
and 10 year olds playing angry birds
To: Charles Martel
I’ve wondered this about the ‘free’ apps.
They’d be great IQ tests too under certain circumstances. And that info (problem solving capabilities) are probably uploaded to our giant file in Utah just like everything else.
To: C19fan
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posted on
01/27/2014 12:57:34 PM PST
by
null and void
(We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
To: null and void
Angry Birds Star Wars
I am stuck on level 16
anybody able to help?
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posted on
01/27/2014 12:58:51 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: null and void
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posted on
01/27/2014 1:05:34 PM PST
by
null and void
(We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
To: C19fan
ATTENTION SPEAKER BOEHNER:
Impeachment File for the 2014 Impeachment of B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a documented legal citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
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posted on
01/27/2014 1:42:57 PM PST
by
Graewoulf
(Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
To: C19fan
what will they do if this REALLY Angers the Birds?
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:12:25 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
To: All
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:14:37 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Swordmaker
Time to get a windows phone. iPhone and Android are too vulnerable to attack.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:28:39 PM PST
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: for-q-clinton
Time to get a windows phone. iPhone and Android are too vulnerable to attack. Seeing as how the Angry Birds app is not allowed to access the data claimed in this article unless it is supported by advertising, which is only on the Android version, I think you are going to have to prove that claim for the iPhone. You do know that Angry Birds, free edition, supported by advertising, is the version available for the Windows phone, don't you?
I think the type of data claimed is hype. . .
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posted on
01/27/2014 8:37:07 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Swordmaker
Also iPhones are easily hacked by police...they Have a tool the plug into the iPhone and get all the data. No tool exists fir windows phone so windows phone is more secure.
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posted on
01/27/2014 10:11:41 PM PST
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: Swordmaker
Oh and on my windows phone its pay angry birds. Not sure which market place you went to. But angry birds is just one of the apps used there are several that track iPhone users. IPhone is way to insecure to use for anything other than games.
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posted on
01/27/2014 10:14:45 PM PST
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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