Smartphones are spies. They know everything about your emails, your passwords, the websites you visit, the texts you write, what you think and what you are about to think! Someone remotely can even activate the video camera, the still camera or the microphone without our knowledge.
We may still be living in the age of innocence when it comes to the Internet. When a schoolgirl in the US received two nude photos of herself via email, she went to the police. The FBI managed to track down a classmate who had software on his computer that allowed him to spy on women, especially women.
Although a light comes on when the camera is in use, a hacker or the FBI can turn on the camera without the light coming on. From a laptop, which has a built-in camera, it is possible for someone—the government or a malicious 19-year-old—to spy on the owner at any time.
Although Apple claims that this is designed to prevent this from happening, in 2008, Apple products that were created had a “hardware interlock” between the camera and the light, to ensure that the camera could not operate without warning. In April 2011, two researchers found that Apple iPhones and iPads running iOS4 recorded the location of their owner and the movements they made, and stored them in hidden files. The monitoring is done with devices that record the diffuse radiation emitted by the keyboard! When we write something on the computer, we send a message that the system records and a center can read the key that was pressed.
A warm battery while the phone is off is a sign that the phone is being monitored. The keys may suddenly flash or the screen may turn on by itself. Of course, unusual sounds may also mean that someone is eavesdropping.
The largest and in a way "voluntary" logging is done through social media, with Facebook leading the way. About a billion "friends" are logged in. Cookies in your browser record every time you visit another website that uses the Facebook Like button or another Facebook plugin.
What time, when, where. Your name, email address, friends, and all the other data from your Facebook profile.
Facebook supposedly keeps logs of the last 90 days of your activities. With particular insistence, the “Big Friend” wants to know how you feel, what you think, what movies and books you like. Why? Who wants to know your sexual preferences, your ideology and “I believe” or religious beliefs and which group you support?
Source: enet.gr
