The secret services, including the US National Security Agency (NSA), were planning to install spyware on millions of Android smartphones.
The poject was first published on Wednesday by CBC news in collaboration with Intercept, and as reported in the newsgraphics πρακτορεία είχε σαν στόχο να εκμεταλλευτεί το λειτουργικό σύστημα smartphones γιά να εγκαταστήσει λογισμικό επιτήρησης.
The project was called "Irritant Horn" by NSA, and was designed for hack and hijack connections that exist in popular application stores to direct users to spyware.
These spyware could collect data and send them to NSA without knowing what the victim was.
Of course this is not the first time that smartphones have become a target of mass surveillance by intelligence services.
The British service GCHQ, ανέπτυξε εργαλεία που στοχεύουν συσκευές iPhone and Android.
These tools had a cute name for the children's cartoon characters "The Smurfs", and allowed the service to pinpoint the location of a device with great precision, to switch off and on the microphone without knowing it. the owner.
