{"id":13183,"date":"2015-10-09T06:18:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13183"},"modified":"2015-10-09T06:18:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:18:12","slug":"edward-snowdens-new-revelations-are-truly-chilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13183","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden&#8217;s New Revelations Are Truly Chilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"subtitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/breaking-bbc-news-edward-snowdens-chilling-new-revelations\/?utm_source=sm&amp;utm_medium=ta&amp;utm_campaign=sm\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Snowden&#8217;s New Revelations Are Truly Chilling<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">Former intelligence contractor and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden told the BBC&#8217;s Panorama that the UK intelligence centre GCHQ has the power to hack phones without their owners\u2019 knowledge<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cf_gab_video aligncenter\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Opinion: Edward Snowden\u2019s New Revelations Are Truly Chilling\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wo9arZs21WI?wmode=opaque&amp;showinfo=0&amp;autohide=1\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\nIn an interview with\u00a0the BBC\u2019s \u2018Panorama\u2019 which aired in Britain last night, Edward Snowden spoke in detail about the spying capabilities of the UK\u00a0intelligence agency GCHQ. He disclosed that government spies\u00a0can\u00a0legally\u00a0hack into any citizen\u2019s phone to listen in to what\u2019s happening\u00a0in the room, view files, messages and photos, pinpoint exactly where a person is (to a much more sophisticated level than a normal GPS system), and monitor a person\u2019s every move and every conversation,\u00a0even when the phone is turned off.\u00a0These technologies are named after Smurfs, those little\u00a0blue cartoon characters who had a recent Hollywood makeover. But despite the cute name,\u00a0these technologies are very disturbing; each one is built to spy on you in a different way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cDreamy Smurf\u201d: lets the phone be powered on and off<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNosey Smurf\u201d:lets spies turn the microphone on and listen in on users, even if the phone itself is turned off<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTracker Smurf\u201d:a geo-location tool which allows [GCHQ] to follow you with a greater precision than you would get from the typical triangulation of cellphone towers.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cParanoid Smurf\u201d: hides the fact that it has taken control of the phone. The tool will stop people from recognising that the phone has been tampered with if it is taken in for a service, for instance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Snowden says: \u201cThey want to own your phone instead of you.\u201d It sounds very much like he\u00a0means\u00a0we are being purposefully encouraged to buy our own\u00a0tracking devices. That kinda saved the government some money, didn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/breaking-bbc-news-edward-snowdens-chilling-new-revelations\/?utm_source=sm&amp;utm_medium=ta&amp;utm_campaign=sm\">http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/breaking-bbc-news-edward-snowdens-chilling-new-revelations\/?utm_source=sm&amp;utm_medium=ta&amp;utm_campaign=sm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Snowden&#8217;s New Revelations Are Truly Chilling Former intelligence contractor and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden told the BBC&#8217;s Panorama that the UK intelligence centre GCHQ has the power to hack phones without their owners\u2019 knowledge In an interview with\u00a0the BBC\u2019s \u2018Panorama\u2019 which aired in Britain last night, Edward Snowden spoke in detail about the spying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,249,1511,577,9726,9727,876],"class_list":["post-13183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bbc","tag-edward-snowden","tag-gchq","tag-nsa","tag-true-activist","tag-uk-intelligence","tag-whistleblower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13184,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183\/revisions\/13184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}