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I'm not familiar with this app but based on the read, it sounds like they're essentially relying on someone to sneak into the target's phone, install an apk with a 'Settings' logo, where you grant it all permissions (I assume the installer facilitates the process of manually granting full permissions for each permissions type and disabling battery optimization). Android does allow you to effectively delegate full permissions to an app like that, albeit in a manual way.


Camera and microphone usage should be hard-wired to an LED


and a switch which has a physical air gap when off.


Thanks for your suggestion, but at this time the NSA cannot allow this change.


Mics listen for voice commands all the time and some cameras can be activated without their LEDs.


Haha! That gave me a good laugh.


"But the switch will compromise its water tightness like the headphone jack does!" - every mobile sycophant.


Or worse: It might add 15 cents to the BOM!


Magnets and reed switches? Crazy talk!


I wonder if it would show up in periodic permissions scans done by android. Hopefully!

But as the TechCrunch author stated, oftentimes alerting the stalker can be dangerous for the victim.




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