Bunnie Huang and Edward Snowden’s Malware-Detecting Smartphone Case

Re:Bunnie Huang and Edward Snowden’s Malware-Detecting Smart... by deadbunny on Friday August 26, 2016 @01:58PM (#12368021)

That was my immediate thought, if they have access to your phone at that level recording (voice, packets, gps co-ords) to a file then sending it once it has signal would be trivial. It would provide a misguided level of confidence in their security which could lead to exactly the consequences trying to be avoided.

Got a secret meeting? Don't take your bloody phone.

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Re:Bunnie Huang and Edward Snowden’s Malware-Detecting Smart... by mentat on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:54PM (#12368868)

Of course not taking your phone is a visible data footprint if you're detected in other ways. Secrecy is a pretty hard problem now.

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Re:Bunnie Huang and Edward Snowden’s Malware-Detecting Smart... by philipov on Friday August 26, 2016 @06:48PM (#12369839)

The objective, in this case, is to prevent recording of the proceedings, not keep the very existence of the meeting a secret.

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