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Hacking Team's RCS Android May Be the Most Sophisticated Android Malware Ever Exposed
An anonymous reader writes: As each day passes and researchers find more and more source code in the huge Hacking Team data dump, it becomes more clear what the company's customers could do with the spyware. After having revealed one of the ways that the company used to deliver its spyware on Android devices, Trend Micro researchers have analyzed the code of the actual spyware: RCS Android (Remote Control System Android). Unsurprisingly, it can do so many things and spy on so many levels that they consider it the most sophisticated Android malware ever exposed. The software can, among other things, gather device information, capture screenshots and photos, record speech by using the devices' microphone, capture voice calls, record location, capture Wi-Fi and online account passwords, collect contacts and decode messages from IM accounts, as well as collect SMS, MMS, and Gmail messages.
Hacking Team says it sold its surveillance and intrusion software strictly within the law.
Awesome. So when's the patch coming out?
Killing Jews was strictly within the law of Nazi Germany.
What is wrong is wrong. Within the law or outside of it, there are certain things that make you an asshole when you do it.
Supporting oppressive regimes is such a thing. Yes, it's legal to deal with them. Yes, it's legal to sell them your shit. Yes, you're still an asshole for doing so. A legal asshole if you want to, but at the end of the day, you're still just full of shit and nobody wants to touch you.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Hey, if there's any angry hackers out there, will someone please ruin these assholes lives?
Because if anybody deserves to be fucked with by the internet, it's these clowns.
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