NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones

The Intercept ^ | 5/21/15 | Ryan Gallagher

[markomalley]

A spokesperson for Canada’s Communications Security Establishment said that the agency was “mandated to collect foreign signals intelligence to protect Canada and Canadians from a variety of threats to our national security, including terrorism,” adding that it “does not direct its foreign signals intelligence activities at Canadians or anywhere in Canada.”

Sure thing...

[Fresh Wind]

Five Eyes Alliance?

[Din Maker]

Wait a minute. The NSA under the Obama Administration was going to hack into Google? Can’t be. Mark Z. the founder of Google is a big Democrat supporter. They’d never do that to him?

[Old Sarge]

Your presence is requested...

[Old Yeller]

Wait a minute. The NSA under the Obama Administration was going to hack into Google? Can’t be. Mark Z. the founder of Google is a big Democrat supporter. They’d never do that to him?

Now we know why Zuckerberg makes as many visits to the Oval Office as Sharpton.

[circlecity]

"Mark Z. the founder of Google is a big Democrat supporter"

Zuckerberg founded Facebook not Google.

[CGASMIA68]

good point so;

“Now we know why Zuckerberg makes as many visits to the Oval Office as Sharpton”

[Rodamala]

Planned? The use of the past tense is delightful.

[logic101.net]

Funny, I’ll bet Obama just found out about it.

[Darksheare]

Planned?
Probably means “did”.
Also probably any mobile phone from all vendors including Apple.

[WayneS]

False flag operation by Apple?

[null and void]

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

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[Lazamataz]

Our government is out of control.

[zeugma]

The case strikes at the heart of a debate about whether spy agencies are putting ordinary people at risk by secretly exploiting security flaws in popular software instead of reporting them so that they can be fixed.

This is the fundamental problem of these agencies.

When any of us are vulnerable, we are all vulnerable. Heaven forbid that Fedgov actually make efforts to make the internet safer.

[upchuck]

And people wonder why Apple/Google/et al are so interested in encrypting phone data.

[Nachum]

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[Nachum]

Obama and Your Privacy file..

http://nachumlist.com/privacy.htm

[stephenjohnbanker]

LOL!

Trust ?

Uh....no.

[bmwcyle]

It has gone too far and I they are getting ready to burn the freedom papers. They already ignore them.

[Nifster]

indeed