{"id":7327,"date":"2015-04-15T06:08:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T11:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7327"},"modified":"2015-04-15T06:08:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T11:08:34","slug":"inventor-of-antivirus-sofware-the-government-is-planting-malicious-software-on-your-phone-so-it-can-bypass-encryption-and-see-what-youre-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7327","title":{"rendered":"Inventor of Antivirus Sofware: The Government Is Planting Malicious Software On Your Phone So It Can Bypass Encryption and See What You\u2019re Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/04\/mcaffee.html\" target=\"_blank\">Inventor of Antivirus Sofware: The Government Is Planting Malicious Software On Your Phone So It Can Bypass Encryption and See What You\u2019re Doing<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Spy Agencies Are Intentionally Destroying Digital Security<\/h3>\n<p>Top computer and internet experts say that NSA spying\u00a0<a title=\"breaks the functionality of our computers and of the Internet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/01\/open-letter-top-u-s-computer-security-experts-slams-nsa-spying-destroying-security.html\">breaks the functionality of our computers and of the Internet<\/a>. It reduces functionality and reduces security by \u2013 for example \u2013\u00a0<a title=\"creating backdoors that malicious hackers can get through\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/01\/open-letter-top-u-s-computer-security-experts-slams-nsa-spying-destroying-security.html\">creating backdoors that malicious hackers can get through<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, American and British spy agencies have\u00a0<em>intentionally<\/em>\u00a0weakened security for\u00a0<em><a title=\"many decades\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/03\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/01\/american-british-spy-agencies-intentionally-weakened-security-many-decades.html\">many decades<\/a><\/em>. And it\u2019s getting worse and worse. For example, they plan to use automated programs to\u00a0<a title=\"infect millions of computers\" href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/article\/2014\/03\/12\/nsa-plans-infect-millions-computers-malware\/\" target=\"_blank\">infect millions of computers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Smart Phones Vulnerable to Spying<\/h3>\n<p>We\u00a0<a title=\"documented\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/10\/security-expert-the-details-matter-less-and-less-we-have-to-assume-that-the-nsa-has-everyone-who-uses-electronic-communications-under-constant-surveillance.html\">documented<\/a>\u00a0in 2013 that smart phones are very vulnerable to spying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The government is spying on you through your phone \u2026 and may even\u00a0<a title=\"remotely turn on your camera and microphone when your phone is off\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/06\/the-single-most-important-step-to-protect-yourself-from-government-spying.html\">remotely turn on your camera and microphone when your phone is off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As one example, the NSA has\u00a0<a title=\"inserted its code into Android\u2019s operating system \u2026 bugging three-quarters of the world\u2019s smartphones\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-07-03\/security-enhanced-android-nsa-edition#r=nav-fs\" target=\"_blank\">inserted its code into Android\u2019s operating system \u2026 bugging\u00a0<em>three-quarters of the world\u2019s smartphones<\/em><\/a>. Google \u2013 or the NSA \u2013 can\u00a0<a title=\"apparently remotely turn on your phone\u2019s camera and recorder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/facebook-android-app-camera-security-2013-5\" target=\"_blank\">remotely turn on your phone\u2019s camera and recorder<\/a>\u00a0at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Google knows\u00a0<a title=\"just about every WiFi password in the world\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/android\/22806\/google-knows-nearly-every-wi-fi-password-world\" target=\"_blank\">just about every WiFi password in the world<\/a>\u00a0\u2026 and so the NSA does as well, since it spies so widely on Google.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just the Android. In reality, the NSA can spy on\u00a0<a title=\"just about everyone\u2019s\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/privacy-scandal-nsa-can-spy-on-smart-phone-data-a-920971.html\" target=\"_blank\">just about\u00a0<em>everyone\u2019s<\/em><\/a>\u00a0smart phone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inventor of Antivirus Sofware: The Government Is Planting Malicious Software On Your Phone So It Can Bypass Encryption and See What You\u2019re Doing Spy Agencies Are Intentionally Destroying Digital Security Top computer and internet experts say that NSA spying\u00a0breaks the functionality of our computers and of the Internet. It reduces functionality and reduces security by [&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":[4779,1543,379,1339,551,577,765],"class_list":["post-7327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-antivirus-software","tag-digital-surveillance","tag-government","tag-internet","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327","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=7327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7328,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions\/7328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}