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Mobile InSecurity

September 5, 2016 By Bill

Whether you’ve read my novel, Capitol Kid, which describes how a young hacker, Boot, fairly easily takes control of Capitol Police mobile phones, you ought to read Nicole Perlroth’s NY Times feature article about phone hacking. It’s both astounding and demonstrates how insecure most phones (computers, too) really are despite tech company efforts to lock them down. Check it out here:

How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone

From NY Times: “There are dozens of digital spying companies that can track everything a target does on a smartphone. Credit Spencer Platt/Getty Images”

 

 

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