Interesting how this got done ‘on the quiet’… in 2019… And it’s just now coming to light?
NSO Group’s Pegasus product allows access to a smartphone user’s messages, camera, and microphone without action by the victim, according to the Pegasus Project, an investigation organized by the news outlet Forbidden Stories. Pegasus has attracted attention from surveillance-focused watchdogs and from governments interested in becoming users.
The FBI told The Washington Times there was no operational use of the tech in support of any investigation and it procured a limited license for “product testing and evaluation only.”
Uh-huh…sure… Cross our hearts, we never used it! We promise!!!
But if you connect the dots, this sure does look like what was used to ‘link’ the Jan 6 ‘rioters’ to each other!
Full article, HERE.
The fact is, ANY connectivity of any kind is currently hackable, snoopable, and traceable by .gov. The only question is when/how it is being used or will be used against you. Unless you go completely off the grid, you ARE trackable. And if you travel in any big city, your face is scanned x-times/trip/day and that ‘track’ goes somewhere in the cloud for recall either by your face or date/time information.
Sure, you can turn off ‘location’ on your phone, or your watch, or your fitness device, but it still logs your location and that information is retrievable at any time unless you physically destroy the device. Even then, the MAC address can be accessed from locations it was on, like cell towers, ‘free’ wireless, etc.
Amazing how they can lie like that with a straight face. It’s almost as if they are highly practiced at lying….
I hate to trash the cell phone. Maybe just turn it completely off when not in actual use. It will still track you, of course. None of us trust USGOV or Big Tech. We’ve simply allowed ourselves to become its slaves and subjects.
Get yourself a shield box or faraday cage. About the only thing you can do since they have made it impossible to replace the batteries in the damned things.
Agree. The only thing that works is a metal container with a tight lid. Think Altoids box for your phone…
Your tire pressure transducers have unique digital IDs. Range is about 150 feet. If someone is monitoring ramps and intersections, they know where your car went.
This is like 4473’s for guns – unless the car manufacturer has tracked the RFID code for your tires, and given that data to the govt, this is possible by extremely unlikely. If you’ve had any sensor replaced, again, unless there’s a mechanism to track the codes, it’s unlikely to be implemented.
Worse worry is the capability to kill your car remotely – already in place for several makes.
Aluminum foil is your friend …
or remove the battery –
How many phones have easily removable batteries today?
going to a rally in another city??
1) leave all your “smart” devices home, including credit cards.
2) pay cash/prepaid credit card for everything.
3) park as far as possible from the event as possable and take public transportation.
4) if you must communicate with others, buy burner phones from a stor in the event area.\
5) no videos/posts/blogs of the event from your home ‘puter when you get back home…. you didn’t go, you were never there, your evil twin step brother is the one in the survalance photos.
Turn your phone off and put it in an RFID blocking wallet.
BULLSHIT !!!!!!!
If they have it, they’ve used it.
The question is: Why are they now admitting they even have it??
What story is going to break soon?????
get a faraday bag for your phone…..
I assumed google was already doing this.
Talked to someone the other day and they had a similar experience.
Mention something and it pops up in targeted ads.
Yes, if your microphone is “ON”, it will hear you.
No, your microphone is always “ON”.
Whether you know about it or not.
If you cut the wires to it, it’s “off”.
Otherwise, it’s always listening.
If this is news to anyone, you’re behind the curve.
Our only salvation is the utter ineptness of most of the government.
You don’t need a Faraday bag, though if you already have one it will work fine. Any metal can with a tight-fitting metal lid that is big enough for your cell phone to fit into will do. I use a Pepperidge Farm “Pirouette” can and it works fine. An empty paint can works too.
On or off, if that phone is sealed inside the can it will be electronically invisible.
Of course, the best solution is to stay away from stupid places so that stupid things won’t happen to you.
Regarding surveillance cameras: Nobody has the hard centralized drive space to keep live, high-def video for more than a week or so. Even dedicated video surveillance systems degrade the quality (both FPS and image density) after about a week, and generally purge it after a month. And just try to imagine the streaming bandwidth from all those cameras.
The real high quality surveillance imagery resides in internal storage. With the advance of SD/SSD tech, the camera itself can store quite a lot of footage. But the users have to know that something happened, both where and when, in order to know what to look for on which cameras. And if something happens to the camera, those high quality images are gone.
“Nobody has the hard centralized drive space to keep live, high-def video for more than a week or so”
Going t have to disagree a bit here.
We (at work) have many, many, many locations being recorded and some of them are 48 camera packages, megapixel cameras recording 30 fps with the highest quality image and some of that can go 45 days. (depending on motion and what not).
Those units have local servers that hold the data with remote access. Mostly depends on the HD size in the servers
Take a look at that big NSA ‘data center’ in Utah. Look at how big it is. Now, what do you think they’re keeping there? And then remember that it’s not the only one out there.
Just the smallest.
The difference between having GPS active and tower information is the accuracy – These days, GPS will give location within a couple feet, enough to show you were in a specific building or confrontation; tower location will place you within a quarter mile at best. It can only show you were in the area, not a specific place.
As far as Pegasus, there is a BIG push back against it; a bigger customer list is probably about to come out, so the FBI is trying to get ahead of the curve (in my opinion).
All- Interesting points raised. NO good answers over here, just hunkering down and watching the world go by… 😉
If you take the GPS chip out of the phone, it cuts down on their ability to track you. They’ll know what tower you’re logging into, but (as I understand it) they never really rolled out the software to triangulate you from multiple towers at once.
Removing the microphone so you have to plug a headset in also cuts down on the ability to keep them from listening to you.
But the only real thing you can do is pull the battery and put it in a faraday cage.
Because Google and Apple and all of them ARE listening to your phone, constantly, so they can sell the data they get to marketers.
just leave the damn thing at home. if you must have one carry a burner. activate it there, and toss it on a train when you’re done. better yet the river. there are plate covers that block cameras too, and masks work. not for viruses, but frs. why do you think the irs wants you to verify with a selfie?
You question our rulers?!?
Facial recognition?
Good luck with that when you wear a face mask with a realistic latex lower face that’s not yours, a cheap pair of dark sunglasses, and a baseball cap. 😉