"I Remove It Before Using The Phone!" Edward Snowden

once your phone is hacked what is in their hands is not simply your device it is your future they're selling our future they're selling our past they are selling our history our identity and ultimately they are stealing our power the screen may be off as it's sitting on your desk but the device is talking all of the time the question we have to ask is who is it talking to if i get a smartphone and i need to use a phone i actually open it up before i use it anything you can do on that device the attacker in this case the government can do before 2013 if you said there's a system that's watching everything you do the government is collecting records of every phone call in the united states even for those people who are not suspected of any crime it was a conspiracy yes there were some people who believed it was happening yes there were academics who could say this was technically possible the world of 2013 we suspected some suspected that this was happening the world after 2013 we know that it's happening the distance between speculation and fact is everything in a democracy we have now had the first european regulations that are trying to limit the amount of data that can be collected secretly and used against populations broadly and we have also seen the basic structure of the internet itself change in response to this understanding that that the network path that all of our communications cross when you request a website when you send a text message when you read an email for so long those communications have been electronically naked or unencrypted before 2013 more than half the world's internet communications were unencrypted now far more than half are measured by uh just web traffic from one of the world's leading browsers uh the google chrome browser the entire world has changed uh in the last few years it hasn't gone far enough the problems still exist and in some ways they've gotten worse but we have made progress that would not have been possible if we didn't know what was going on hacking has increasingly become what governments consider a legitimate investigative tool they use the same methods and techniques as criminal hackers and what this means is they will try to remotely take over your device once they do this by detecting a vulnerability in the software that your device runs such as apple's ios or microsoft windows they can craft a special kind of attack code called an exploit they then launch this exploit at the vulnerability on your device which allows them to take total control of that device anything you can do on that device the attacker in this case the government can do they can read your email they can collect every document they can look at your contact book they can turn the location services on they can see anything that is on that phone instantly and send it back home to the mothership they can do the same with laptops the other prong that we forget so frequently is that in many cases they don't need to hack our devices they can simply ask google for a copy of our email box because google saves a copy of that everything that you ever typed into that search box google has a copy of every private message that you've sent on facebook every link that you've clicked everything that you've liked they keep a permanent record of and all of these things available not just to these companies but to our governments as they are increasingly deputized as sort of miniature arms of government what about enabling your microphone camera if you can do it they can do it uh it is trivial to remotely turn on your microphone or to activate your camera so long as you have systems level access if you had hacked someone's device remotely anything they can do you can do they can look up your nose right they can record what's in the room the screen may be off as it's sitting on your desk but the device is talking all of the time the question we have to ask is who is it talking to even if your phone is not hacked right now you look at it it's just sitting there on the charger it is talking tens or hundreds or thousands of times a minute to any number of different companies who have apps installed on your phone it looks like it's off it looks like it's just sitting there but it is constantly chattering and unfortunately like pollution we have not created the tools that are necessary for ordinary people to be able to see this activity and it is the invisibility of it that makes it so popular and common and attractive for these companies because if you do not realize they're collecting this data from you this very private and personal data there's no way you're going to object to it once your phone is hacked what is in their hands is not simply your device it is your future but we see how these same technologies are being applied to create what they call the social credit system if any of your activities online if your purchases if your associations if you're friends are in any way different from what the government or the powers that be of the moment would like them to be you're no longer able to purchase train tickets you're no longer able to board an airplane you may not be able to get a passport you may not be eligible for a job you might not be able to work for the government all of these things are increasingly being created and programmed and decided by algorithms and those algorithms are fueled by precisely the innocent data that our devices are creating all of the time constantly and visibly quietly right now our devices are casting all of these records that we do not see being created that in aggregate seem very innocent you were at starbucks at this time you went to the hospital afterwards you spent a long time at the hospital after you left the hospital you made a phone call you made a phone call to your mother you talked to her until the middle of the night the hospital was an oncology clinic even if you can't see the content of these communications the activity records what the government calls metadata which they argue they do not need a warrant to collect um tells the whole story and these activity records are being created and shared and collected and intercepted constantly by companies and governments and ultimately it means as they sell these as they trade these as they make their businesses on the backs of these records what they are selling is not information what they're selling is us they're selling our future they're selling our past they are selling our history our identity and ultimately they are stealing our power and making our stories work for them if i get a smartphone and i need to use a phone uh i actually open it up before i use it i perform a kind of surgery on it to physically desolder or sort of melt the metal connections that hold the microphone on the phone and i physically take this off i remove the camera for the phone and then i close it back up i seal it up and then if i need to make a phone call i will attach an external microphone on and this is just so um if the phone is sitting there and i'm not making a call it cannot hear me now this is extreme most people do not need this but for me it's about being able to trust our technology my phone could still be hacked my laptop could still be hacked and just as i told you before the same principles applied to me if it is hacked they can do anything to the device that i can do so my trust in technology is limited

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Length: 8min 30sec (510 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 11 2021