FBI Can listen in on your Android Phone remotely

[Alby_da_Wolf]

IHateLife said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

IHateLife said:
This is brilliant if people would take a second to think about it. In the past, FBI undercover agents or snitches would have to wear a wire tap and if they get discovered, they'd get killed right on the spot. Right now, they can just carry an unsuspecting phone that's running Android that can act as a wire tap without causing suspicion to the criminals. They'd be able to get the evidence or confession they'd need to get criminals off the street in a much safer way now.

Yes, this use would be brilliant, and also the option for citizens to enable it if they feel in danger would be very useful, but remotely enabling it without the phone owner 's permission and awareness is no good.

It all depends, while they can't use the source in court, they can use it to prevent disasters like 911. They really don't care to do it to the average Joes like you or me, we are quiet irrelevant to the FBI.

Yes, but actually protecting average Joes could be its only useful function: surely terrorists have been aware of the dangers of planning attacks by phone or internet for quite a long time, so they'll either avoid any electronic communication until the last moment (for example using them only to trigger detonators) to avoid being intercepted in time, or they'll use every possible precaution when using them. If FBI wants to bust terrorists that aren't complete amateurs, but still make a limited use of electronic communications, it must use zero-day exploits, not official backdoors.