The indictment alleges that StealthGenie can and has recorded all incoming/outgoing voice calls; intercepted calls to be monitored in real time; allowed the buyer to call the phone and activate it at any time to monitor all surrounding conversations within a 15-foot radius; and allowed the buyer to monitor a target’s incoming and outgoing e-mail messages and SMS messages, incoming voicemail messages, address book, calendar, photographs, and videos—all without the knowledge of the phone’s user.
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Here’s what bugging your own office NSA-style can reveal
A US reporter for National Public Radio found that NSA-style broad surveillance enabled by a pen-testing device and software crunching picked up on his research (in spite of Google’s default search encryption), intercepted uncut interview tape, ferreted out his interview subjects’ phone numbers and email addresses, and more. Still think there’s nobody out there interested in your boring data points?
NSA intercepts routers, servers to slip in backdoors for overseas surveillance
US intelligence has been covertly implanting interception tools into US networking equipment heading overseas, alleges Glenn Greenwald. 