5/8/13 The FBI Can Remotely Activate The Microphone In Your Android Phone
 

The FBI Can Remotely Activate The Microphone In Your Android Phone

The Wall Street Journal reports on the amazing capabilities of your smartphone:

The FBI develops some hacking tools internally and purchases others from the private sector. With such technology, the bureau can remotely activate the microphones in phones running Google Inc.’s Android software to record conversations, one former U.S. official said. It can do the same to microphones in laptops without the user knowing, the person said. Google declined to comment.

Court documents and interviews with people involved in the programs provide new details about the hacking tools used by federal agencies, including spyware delivered to computers and phones through email or Web links—techniques more commonly associated with attacks by criminals.

The FBI has been developing hacking tools for more than a decade, but rarely discloses its techniques publicly in legal cases.


Source:
http://disinfo.com/2013/08/the-fbi-c...android-phone/

Am I surprised? No.

Im lucky :) using N9 :)

Re: 5/8/13 The FBI Can Remotely Activate The Microphone In Your Android Phone
 

If we all work together we can get that app running on nitdroid so N900 users aren't left out.

Re: 5/8/13 The FBI Can Remotely Activate The Microphone In Your Android Phone
 

I'm sure they have it covered in most smart and dumbphones anyway. Did you know that's how they caught Pablo Escobar too? Not much Android phones back then! ;)

Re: 5/8/13 The FBI Can Remotely Activate The Microphone In Your Android Phone
 

LOL US is a Spy master state. Soon you need to ask the Government to take a piss.

Re: 5/8/13 The FBI Can Remotely Activate The Microphone In Your Android Phone
 

I am sure I am not the only one who reads on the toilet, and I think it'd be hilarious for the feds to listen in on me taking a crap. But I too have an N9, so am sad I don't have this feature. Another reason why Android is 'better'.

slaapliedje

Re: 5/8/13 The FBI Can Remotely Activate The Microphone In Your Android Phone
 

this could be a real blow the fart app business. I really hope the the Feds don't sell the real time recordings. That could seriously kill the fake fart apps.