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Submission + - NSA and GCHQ target 'leaky' phone apps to scoop user data (theguardian.com)

schwit1 writes: New leaked NSA documents shed a new light on the agency's assault on the data controls of smartphone apps. Using app data permissions as a jumping off point, the documents show agency staffers building huge quantities of data, including "intercepting Google Maps queries made on smartphones, and using them to collect large volumes of location information." One slide lists capabilities for "hot mic" recording, high precision geotracking, and file retrieval which would reach any content stored locally on the phone, including text messages, emails and calendar entries. As the slide notes in a parenthetical aside, "if it's on the phone, we can get it.

Comment Re:Possible countermeasure... (Score 1) 155

I won't pretend to know how they do it either but even if that were the case it would still show that tower ID in a different location from where the valid one is. eg., The map would show tower 00699 499m away at -72dBm but at some point before or after would show tower 00699 (the real one) 742m away at -65dBm. That certainly wouldn't jive for a static tower to have been in two different places.

Comment Re:One of Them (Score 1) 555

I started playing EverQuest in 2000 and still play to this day regularly raiding in one of the top guilds. Why? Because I enjoy it and that's the important part. Granted it's the only game I play (MMO or otherwise) but I just can't get into others, especially since I've become so accustomed to my EQ char over the last 13 years.

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