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Jesus Malverde

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Mon Dec 30, 2013, 05:48 PM Dec 2013

How The NSA Hacks Your iPhone (Presenting DROPOUT JEEP) [View all]

Following up on the latest stunning revelations released yesterday by German Spiegel which exposed the spy agency's 50 page catalog of "backdoor penetration techniques", today during a speech given by Jacob Applebaum (@ioerror) at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress, a new bombshell emerged: specifically the complete and detailed description of how the NSA bugs, remotely, your iPhone. The way the NSA accomplishes this is using software known as Dropout Jeep, which it describes as follows: "DROPOUT JEEP is a software implant for the Apple iPhone that utilizes modular mission applications to provide specific SIGINT functionality. This functionality includes the ability to remotely push/pull files from the device. SMS retrieval, contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation, hot mic, camera capture, cell tower location, etc. Command, control and data exfiltration can occur over SMS messaging or a GPRS data connection. All communications with the implant will be covert and encrypted."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-30/how-nsa-hacks-your-iphone-presenting-dropout-jeep

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I understood almost nothing of what he was saying. zeemike Dec 2013 #1
Consider that all of this is used for "Parallel Construction" bobduca Dec 2013 #2
+10000000 woo me with science Dec 2013 #3
Corporate fascism. nt woo me with science Dec 2013 #4
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