British spies can remotely ‘Smurf’ your iPhone and Android phone

[Wireless News]

http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ZttFivhFDPKOR.hgrkGe3g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/iphone-smurfs.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/british-spies-remotely-smurf-iphone-android-phone-172523892.html)Unsurprisingly, it’s not just the NSA that can hack iPhones and other mobile devices in order to retrieve data that may be relevant to an investigation. New documentation provided to The Guardian by former NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden shows that the British GCHQ agency is also rather skilled in the art of remotely obtaining data from iOS devices and Android smartphones. Interestingly enough, the mobile surveillance operation, which is described in slides from a presentation dating back to late May 2010, reveal that GCHQ has relied on the popular TV show The Smurfs to come up with codenames for the various spying apps that can be run on the iPhone and Android devices. Dreamy Smurf describes a way



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