Hack, hack, hacking away!!
 

Everyone is getting into the hacking act, even our government agencies!!
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2...m-spyware-fbi/

From the article:Hmmm ... almost sounds like that news source "hacked" into that Italian company, but it does say the information was "released". Funnily enough these "revelations" come from the news source's viewing of this gigabytes of company information, and the agencies questioned have said stuff like "We get proposals from everyone ... doesn't mean we bought those products!"

But in either case, taking remote control of a system is nothing new, I wrote software for that back in the 90s. I've long since taped up the camera on my laptop and mainly because in the Windows Explorer, that camera was like a drive and I clicked on the funny name once, after some delay I was looking at my ugly mug! Ahhhhh! Hmmm yeah ... tape that baby over!

Search "finfisher"

Yes, good advice. You never know who is watching. The best thing is to disable the camera in Device Manager and place a tape over it.

Pretty scary shit, eh.

And the ironic thing about it all is ... by making certain forms of surveillance "exceptionally easy to do," it becomes a gigantic bowl of sugar-water in the company of flies. They simply can't resist it. And yet, they proceed to drown in it.

Phones left on bedside tables have been used to surreptitiously capture at least the sounds of people making love. ("Hyuck! Hyuck! Hyuck!" No doubt, perfect entertainment for nerds who can't possibly attract the attention of members of the opposite gender ... :rolleyes: )

It's silly to think, as the article's author apparently does, that "in the USA" it would require a judge's order. At the present time, all such niceties of law-and-order have been brushed aside in the name of "$$Homeland$$ $$Security$$." These companies are doing nothing more than grabbing their tiny slice of the ##CLASSIFIED##ion-dollar 'pie.'" Law enforcement authorities are spending the money and doing the surveillance, literally, "just because they can." Merchants are coming up with anything, knowing that the US Government will buy it for prodigious (secret) sums.

The USA in particular has bought into the notion that "anything goes" in the name of Homeland Security ... whatever the hell that actually means ... and the merchants are too-happy to oblige their "Uncle Sugar." Perversely, this leaves the nation less secure, because, as we all know, "security is a process, not a device."

And it should come as no surprise, then, that this strategy is a sitting-duck for a "honeypot." You have the ability to see, and nobody knows, and nobody's exercising any checks-and-balances over you. All that a criminal really needs to do, then, is to "give you something to see." A decoy. You'll stare at the screen for hours and days, collecting all that 'data' simply because it's what you want and expect to see. Because you suppose that no one would ever think of such a thing, you'll believe anything you see. Because this is "effortless," you will go to no effort. You are blinded into thinking that you must be smarter than the average bear.

And, with you thusly and completely distracted, they can go about their criminal business, offline. (Remember "offline?") Your painstakingly-collected "data" is, to the crooks, just a great alibi.

This is not "your tax dollars being wisely spent." This is your tax dollars being secretly and flagrantly wasted. This is the twenty-first century equivalent of the atomic-bomb boondoggle.

I do not know how to " make software " but if I did I would relocate somewhere and build and market stuff that no government could get into!! In a few years I would amass " Bill Gates money " because the world seems to want to get away from all computer intrusions!!
http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...encryption-bad