What Happened?
Wikileaks recently released another treasure trove of information concerning the U.S. Governments powerful hacking tools which it calls “Year Zero”. This potentially takes surveillance right into the homes and pockets of billions of individuals worldwide. Not only affecting household electronics, but also penetrating Apple iPhones and Google Android phones. Google and Apple have the two largest market shares of the smart phone industry worldwide. There are over 1.4 Billion Android users worldwide. These documents outline far reaching capabilities. This is a massive set of documents totaling over 8,700 in all. It includes hacking secrets that have the possibility of embarrassing American and foreign intelligence agencies across the world as well as undermining or killing spying efforts in some circumstances.
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