Former NSA contractor and global surveillance whistleblower
Edward Snowden told the BBC investigative programme
Panorama Monday night that the British intelligence agency GCHQ has powers to hack any smartphones without their owners' knowledge.
You heard right.
The British Spying Agency have special tools that let them take over your smartphones with just a text message, said
Edward Snowden, and there is "
very little" you can do to prevent them having "
total control" over your devices.
By Sending just a Text message, the tools let spies:
- Listen in to what's happening in the room
- View files and the web history
- See messages and photos
- Taking secret pictures of smartphone owners
- Pinpoint exactly where a user is (to a much more sophisticated level than a typical GPS system)
