Alex Dobie
Executive Editor, Android Central
Looks from the recent leaks like there's a basic messenger app installed. Wouldn't be surprised if Allo was preloaded though, especially in India.
Looks from the recent leaks like there's a basic messenger app installed. Wouldn't be surprised if Allo was preloaded though, especially in India.
No they didn't - they had to contract it out.
Like another poster said, use the incognito end to end encryption if you're that worried. I personally could give two monkey turds if anyone intercepts my conversations about ice hockey, NFL smack talk, and **** jokes.
I really wonder if they actually had to do this. I realize that this is what they *claimed* they had to do. But as this was an investigation with potential international terrorism links, it means they had the full weight of federal agencies behind it: NSA, Homeland Security, Cyber Warfare Division, etc. Rest assured that if they knew who to contact in order to "contract it out," they very likely had already tapped that same pool of people and secured some of them for regular employment...i.e., some who could themselves crack the device. Their "need" to get someone to do it may well have just been theater.
Secondly, I wouldn't be so sanguine about surveillance because you think you have nothing to hide. I say this because it's statistically likely that you have unknowingly committed three felonies today, due to the breadth and minutiae of the U.S. Criminal Code (see Silverglate, 2009). That means any law enforcement official (or legally gathered evidence) could theoretically be used against you if a police officer or prosecutor decided to press the point in court. No snark or disrespect is intended to you in this post, it's just intended as food for thought.
Dude, you need to get some fresh air. Seriously ... put the smartphone/tablet down, go outside, and talk to another human being.
This is effing ridiculous!
Yawn.........