But the deeper you dig, the spottier the evidence really gets, with people confusing and jumbling a whole variety of facts together. For instance, the zdnet article cites "A BBC article from 2004 reported that intelligence agencies routinely employ the remote-activiation method."
It mostly seems to be talking about a physically bugged phone, except for the parts about decrypting conversations over the air. And the lasers.
All people have to go on is the words "roving bug" in a court opinion which has somehow morphed into "all phones contain SMS activated spy microphones."
But the deeper you dig, the spottier the evidence really gets, with people confusing and jumbling a whole variety of facts together. For instance, the zdnet article cites "A BBC article from 2004 reported that intelligence agencies routinely employ the remote-activiation method."
Here's that article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3522137.stm
It mostly seems to be talking about a physically bugged phone, except for the parts about decrypting conversations over the air. And the lasers.
All people have to go on is the words "roving bug" in a court opinion which has somehow morphed into "all phones contain SMS activated spy microphones."