Report: NSA can access most smartphone data

AP via knoxnews.com ^ | September 8, 2013 | Frank Jordans

[John W]

BERLIN (AP) — The U.S. National Security Agency is able to crack protective measures on iPhones, BlackBerry and Android devices, giving it access to users' data on all major smartphones, according to a report Sunday in German news weekly Der Spiegel.

The magazine cited internal documents from the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ in which the agencies describe setting up dedicated teams for each type of phone as part of their effort to gather intelligence on potential threats such as terrorists.

The data obtained this way includes contacts, call lists, SMS traffic, notes and location information, Der Spiegel reported. The documents don't indicate that the NSA is conducting mass surveillance of phone users but rather that these techniques are used to eavesdrop on specific individuals, the magazine said.

[Red White and Blue patriot]

If anyone thinks the government isn’t tracking phones calls and internet browsing history, I have some ocean front property in Nebraska to sell them.

[madison10]

The NSA computer = The Beast?

[basil]

I don’t know anything that I can do about this, so I’ll put it under the heading: LIFE’S A BITCH AND THEN YOU DIE.....

There are only so many things one can worry about....

[rarestia]

I would want to be shot in the backside with a 12 ga but that’s certainly a complex password.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Old Ted Kaczinski’s anti-technology rant doesn’t look quite as insane as it used to, does it?

[Nita Nupress]

<< I would[n’t?] want to be shot in the backside with a 12 ga but that’s certainly a complex password. >>

I forgot to say that wasn’t directed at you. ;-)

[chessplayer]

Yup. And if the election was held again today, bam-bam would win again.

[Joe Boucher]

You are absolutely correct/
About 5 months ago when this punk decided he didn’t want the public touring the White House I wrote a letter to him at the white house and called him a shiftless N word.
Within about thirty minutes my computer was taken over frozen and taken over with a note from the FBI stating that I’d accessed a child porn site ( which is fabrication) and they froze my computer. Scared hell out of me but it was a message sent that they will not put up with dessent.

[varyouga]

You might care if your conversation is mistranscribed, taken out of context or falsified by someone who simply doesn't like you.

The “right” words can easily bring SWAT to your door to shoot/harass you, your family or your dog. It's the favorite pastime of those former schoolyard bullies and they ALWAYS get away with it.