Οι μυστικές υπηρεσίες, συμπεριλαμβανομένης και της Υπηρεσίας Εθνικής Ασφάλειας των ΗΠΑ (NSA), προγραμμάτιζαν να εγκαταστήσουν spyware σε εκατομμύρια Android smartphones
The poject was first published on Wednesday by CBC news in collaboration with Intercept, and as reported by news agencies aimed at exploiting the smartphones operating system to install surveillance software.
That's it project it 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 the NSA without the victim user knowing anything.
Of course this is not the first time that smartphones have become a target of mass surveillance by intelligence services.
The British agency GCHQ has developed tools that target Appliances iPhone and Android.
These tools, had a cute name from children's TV cartoon characters "The Smurfs", and allowed the service to determine the location of a device with extreme accuracy, activate disabled devices and secretly activate the microphone without the owner's knowledge.
