Assange: ¿Utilizas un iPhone, Blackberry o Gmail? Estás jodido
Traducción de ALT1040.
Compañías de “seguridad y vigilancia” pueden usar un smartphone para tomar fotos de ti o tus alrededores sin que lo sepas, según lo dicho por Pratap Chatterjee de la Oficina de Periodismo Investigativo (Bureau of Investigative Journalism) durante una mesa redonda en Londres, moderada por Julian Assange, uno de los fundadores de Wikileaks, quien al dato decidió “prender en fuego” la sala diciendo:
Las declaraciones simplemente avivan aún más el fuego iniciado con la revelación de Carrier IQ, un software que bien podría ser descrito como u rootkit que espía en Androids, BlackBerrys, Nokias y está instalado en 130 millones de móviles de todo el mundo.
Para hacer las cosas aún peores, resulta que Carrier IQ también está presente en iOS, aunque con un recabado de datos, aparentemente, no tan extenso.
¿Deberíamos tomarnos tan en serio nuestra privacidad o este tipo de recabado de datos? A lo primero: Sí y a medida que pase el tiempo nuestra privacidad se hará más y más importante ya que nuestros hábitos de comportamiento son cada vez más valiosos. Si el recabado de datos que mencionan en la mesa redonda de Julian Assange es capaz de identificar usuarios individuales entonces debería no solo preocuparnos, tiene que alarmarnos y tomar decisiones fuertes (como el dejar de usar dispositivos y servicios hasta estar seguros que no nos espían de esta forma).
Tomada de The Register.
1/dic/2011
Surveillance companies can use your iPhone to take photos of you and your surroundings without your knowledge, said a representative from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism at a panel chaired by Julian Assange™ today.
Companies also sell products that will let them change the messages you write, track your location and nick your email contacts, claimed speakers on the panel that included representatives from Privacy International and the aforementioned bureau.
The privacy campaigners, speaking in London, pulled out some of the most sensational revelations in the 287 documents about the international surveillance industry published today by WikiLeaks (but you read it here first). The documents cover a total of 160 companies in 25 countries.
"Who here has an iPhone, who has a BlackBerry, who uses Gmail?"
Assange asked. "Well you're all screwed," he continued, "the reality is
that intelligence operations are selling right now mass surveillance
systems for all those products".
Speaking on the panel, Pratap Chatterjee of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (which works out of City University, but is an independent organisation) said that your phone could be used to record and send information about you even when it is in stand-by mode. That data included location, recordings of your conversations and even photographs. This spy software could run on iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows mobile kit.
Stefania Maurizi, a journalist from Italy's weekly news magazine L'Espresso, showed documents that suggested that software products could not only read emails and text messages sent from spied-on phones, but could actually fake new ones or alter the text of messages sent.
As The Reg has already discussed, all these software products are commercially available, and sold seemingly without any regulation.
Maurizi and N Ram, editor-in-chief of India's The Hindu newspaper (speaking over a Skype connection) said that they were particularly worried by the lack of a legal framework and the absence of checks and balances in the surveillance system.
Steven Murdoch of Cambridge Security group said such software was being made by British companies including ones based in Surrey and Oxford.
He added that even lawful interception was no longer targeted and backed up by suspicions. "We're seeing increasingly wholesale monitoring of entire populations with no suspicion of wrongdoing – the data is being monitored and stored in the hope that it might one day be useful."
"Without controls on this industry, the threat that surveillance poses to freedom on expression and human rights in general is only going to increase." ®
Compañías de “seguridad y vigilancia” pueden usar un smartphone para tomar fotos de ti o tus alrededores sin que lo sepas, según lo dicho por Pratap Chatterjee de la Oficina de Periodismo Investigativo (Bureau of Investigative Journalism) durante una mesa redonda en Londres, moderada por Julian Assange, uno de los fundadores de Wikileaks, quien al dato decidió “prender en fuego” la sala diciendo:
Quién tiene aquí un iPhone? Quién tiene aquí un BlackBerry? Quién aquí usa Gmail? están todos jodidos.Por otro lado, Stefania Maurizi, una periodista de L’Espresso de Italia mostró documentos que demostrarían que este tipo de software no solo es capaz de espiar a usuarios, también puede modificar mensajes enviados o crear nuevos.
Las declaraciones simplemente avivan aún más el fuego iniciado con la revelación de Carrier IQ, un software que bien podría ser descrito como u rootkit que espía en Androids, BlackBerrys, Nokias y está instalado en 130 millones de móviles de todo el mundo.
Para hacer las cosas aún peores, resulta que Carrier IQ también está presente en iOS, aunque con un recabado de datos, aparentemente, no tan extenso.
¿Deberíamos tomarnos tan en serio nuestra privacidad o este tipo de recabado de datos? A lo primero: Sí y a medida que pase el tiempo nuestra privacidad se hará más y más importante ya que nuestros hábitos de comportamiento son cada vez más valiosos. Si el recabado de datos que mencionan en la mesa redonda de Julian Assange es capaz de identificar usuarios individuales entonces debería no solo preocuparnos, tiene que alarmarnos y tomar decisiones fuertes (como el dejar de usar dispositivos y servicios hasta estar seguros que no nos espían de esta forma).
Tomada de The Register.
1/dic/2011
Assange: 'iPhone, BlackBerry, Gmail users - you're all screwed'
Surveillance companies can use your iPhone to take photos of you and your surroundings without your knowledge, said a representative from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism at a panel chaired by Julian Assange™ today.
Companies also sell products that will let them change the messages you write, track your location and nick your email contacts, claimed speakers on the panel that included representatives from Privacy International and the aforementioned bureau.
Speaking on the panel, Pratap Chatterjee of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (which works out of City University, but is an independent organisation) said that your phone could be used to record and send information about you even when it is in stand-by mode. That data included location, recordings of your conversations and even photographs. This spy software could run on iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows mobile kit.
Stefania Maurizi, a journalist from Italy's weekly news magazine L'Espresso, showed documents that suggested that software products could not only read emails and text messages sent from spied-on phones, but could actually fake new ones or alter the text of messages sent.
As The Reg has already discussed, all these software products are commercially available, and sold seemingly without any regulation.
Maurizi and N Ram, editor-in-chief of India's The Hindu newspaper (speaking over a Skype connection) said that they were particularly worried by the lack of a legal framework and the absence of checks and balances in the surveillance system.
Steven Murdoch of Cambridge Security group said such software was being made by British companies including ones based in Surrey and Oxford.
He added that even lawful interception was no longer targeted and backed up by suspicions. "We're seeing increasingly wholesale monitoring of entire populations with no suspicion of wrongdoing – the data is being monitored and stored in the hope that it might one day be useful."
"Without controls on this industry, the threat that surveillance poses to freedom on expression and human rights in general is only going to increase." ®
