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Re:Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Diss... by jon_richards on Monday May 30, 2016 @11:17AM (#11801684)
Yup. I told some people about Facebook's silent background audio and the CIA's fake phone shutdowns. I felt like I was telling them about government mind control programs.
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Re:Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Diss... by nyolfen on Monday May 30, 2016 @02:37PM (#11802477)
>CIA's fake phone shutdowns

Can you expand on this?

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Re:Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Diss... by jon_richards on Monday June 06, 2016 @01:20AM (#11844820)
They can send a signal to your phone telling it to fake any attempted shutdowns so that they can still use it as a bug.
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