The NSA came up with a brilliantly sneaky way to hack your Android phone

[Wireless News]

Once again, we have to tip our cap in grudging admiration for the lengths the National Security Administration will go to hack into our mobile devices.-The Intercept has published some new documents leaked by Edward Snowden that show how the NSA and other spy agencies at one point planned to conduct-man-in-the-middle attacks between end users and Android app stores to infect users’ phones with spyware. FROM EARLIER:-Here are the most ridiculous questions al-Qaeda asks on its official job application “The agencies used the Internet spying system XKEYSCORE to identify smartphone traffic flowing across Internet cables and then to track down smartphone connections to app marketplace servers operated by Samsung and Google,” writes-The Intercept. “As part of a pilot project codenamed

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