Fancy a little kinky sex? GCHQ+NSA will know - thanks to Angry Birds

I'd install it too.

There's one thing worse than disinformation, dysinformation.

And I can be astoundingly difficult when I wish to be.

...applications are telling British and American intelligence agencies everything about you – from your location to your politics or whether you're part of the swinging set.

And even more shocking new research shows the pope is be a Catholic...

Re: Why don't the NSA just put out their own App?

That's like Winston Smith buying a HDTV - so Big-Brother could spy on him better.

Re: Why don't the NSA just put out their own App?

It already has. WhatsApp makes message intercept *much* easier. Instead of having to co-opt telcos for SMS taps, they get it delivered on a US server.

To me, it's one of the smartest global intercept programmes ever.

Re: Why don't the NSA just put out their own App?

I thought they did. It's called Google.

Re: Here's the problem

being within the letter of the law doesn't mean you're right

If it's not illegal it cannot be wrong; that's how they sleep soundly in their beds at night. They wilfully choose not to make any moral judgement on whether it is right. The legal test substitutes for a moral test.

Once that's understood it becomes crystal clear how government ministers and the like can stand there, with straight faces, telling us that something others consider bad is the right thing to do and can genuinely believe that.

Re: Here's the problem

Either they ignore morals and stay within the letter of the law and feel they are therefore justified or they break the law to do what is morally right and feel they are therefore justified. It's all good to the those with psychopathic tendencies who gain power and think the end always justifies the means.

Re: Here's the problem

"being within the letter of the law doesn't mean you're right"

So, from my old AD&D gaming days (I hate angry birds) that would make:

NSA --> Lawful - Evil

Snowden --> Chaotic - Good

Re: A new kind of scratch monkey

seems like you're the only one

Re: A new kind of scratch monkey

Not Angie the Frump, surely.

Re: Dove from above

Only one finger to see, though it's not one for polite company.

Just ignore the wink.

Re: Dove from above

I don't even know what value such information has to the intelligence services.

Re: So once again the advertising companies s**t over your privacy

Yeah. I'm actually more upset with the company that introduced the vulnerability than the NSA. The NSA was only doing what came naturally. It was the idiot company that left the screen door unlocked.

Re: Just monitoring you purchases

It was mandatory reading at school. We had a whole box.

Re: Just monitoring you purchases

After watching that movie, my friend discovered that she had several copies of that book (including one in her bed's headboard shelf), but she had never read it. It kind of freaked her out.

Re: So, of course...

"Our pissy little game needs access to your e-mail, your location, your contacts list, your photographs, your fingerprints, your blood group..."

You missed the iris pattern and DNA sample.

Some of those permissions are justifiable.

Network access? Movies (not just for ads anymore)

Storage? To record progress.

Phone status? To pause on a call.

Accounts? To sell the addons.