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Do you guys not monitor your networks? The Snowden interview was fear mongering.
None of this can be done "undetectable". A good example is Siri voice data. If Siri was listening all the time your data use would be huge without you even doing anything. Not only that but to encode it for smaller use would show up as heavy CPU usage on your phone and also battery usage.
Even the NSA hacks require the phone to be corrupted (aka hacked and firmware installed or the actual phone taken and then modified and returned without the user knowing). Having run IT security software and also property tracking software I know a bit about it and it's limits. Even more, knowing it's potential for abuse we had the camera features locked to the department head and he required written acceptance of it's use from the board or the super to activate it to create a paper trail in case of "issue" were to arise.
If your home computer is corrupted to the point they can control your camera you have A LOT more to worry about because all of your other information and computer use is open and known as well at that point, banking, financial, etc.
Like I said, you should be monitoring your network. Hell back when I had more brain power I ran a py script that output all kinds of network data to a transparent terminal window under linux showing all the data and auto-flagging certain kinds of packets or usage.
Kind of like the Windows 10 stuff. Just turning on a metered connection turns ALL of the tattle ware off. If it wasn't I'd know because I'd see the network packets.
None of this can be done "undetectable". A good example is Siri voice data. If Siri was listening all the time your data use would be huge without you even doing anything. Not only that but to encode it for smaller use would show up as heavy CPU usage on your phone and also battery usage.
Even the NSA hacks require the phone to be corrupted (aka hacked and firmware installed or the actual phone taken and then modified and returned without the user knowing). Having run IT security software and also property tracking software I know a bit about it and it's limits. Even more, knowing it's potential for abuse we had the camera features locked to the department head and he required written acceptance of it's use from the board or the super to activate it to create a paper trail in case of "issue" were to arise.
If your home computer is corrupted to the point they can control your camera you have A LOT more to worry about because all of your other information and computer use is open and known as well at that point, banking, financial, etc.
Like I said, you should be monitoring your network. Hell back when I had more brain power I ran a py script that output all kinds of network data to a transparent terminal window under linux showing all the data and auto-flagging certain kinds of packets or usage.
Kind of like the Windows 10 stuff. Just turning on a metered connection turns ALL of the tattle ware off. If it wasn't I'd know because I'd see the network packets.
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