If someone hacks your phone or reads over your shoulder, they can see your messages. On what planet has this JUST been revealed? A headline?
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I wrote this because activists and journalists were panicking. Media cannot, should not, be this tech illiterate. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/the-truth-about-the-wikileaks-cia-cache.html …pic.twitter.com/i1LyABUCbs
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Older, un-updated android phones are not secure. In infosec world, that is more mundane than saying the sky is blue. Reported endlessly!
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If you don't understand the infosec field, talk to experts before parroting Wikileaks, or making big, sensational claims about it all.
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Look, device insecurity is real. Lives are at stake. Most common threat is crude phishing. Like this.https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/03/azerbaijan-activists-targeted-by-government-sponsored-cyber-attack/ …
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So it is damaging to be parroting sensationalist claims & frameworks about perhaps the ONE thing (encryption) that got more widespread.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted FRANCE 24 English
Aargh. If you have an older android phone, forget the CIA, your cousin can sneeze in its direction and get in.https://twitter.com/France24_en/status/840244674698731520 …
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Anyway, I wrote this after being pinged by many panicked people about Signal etc., misled by careless media & WL.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/the-truth-about-the-wikileaks-cia-cache.html …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted CopperheadOS
Yep. Basically, android phones besides Google (pixel, nexus) are sitting ducks. True for CIA, true for your cousin.https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/840264425206624256 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
Patching this thread here. Above: tips plus media. Below: 0days, updates & security.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/840559231917031425 …
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thanks Zeynep! You are going a public service in breaking this down for us
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