Tuesday, March 26, 2013

CIA on Mobile Security and Data

Are you are aware of the fact that somebody can know where you are at all times because you carry a mobile device, even if that mobile device is turned off ?

 In fact based on the sensors in a smartphone, someone can be identified (with 100 percent accuracy) by the way they walk — implying that someone could be identified even when carrying someone else's phone.

 Well now you know... If you want to know more go through the video and links below :

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUPd2uMiXXg

The CIA's chief technology officer outlined the agency's endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday. Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM's Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO Ira "Gus" Hunt said that the world is increasingly awash in information from text messages, tweets, and videos -- and that the agency wants all of it.
 "The value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time," Hunt said. "Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever." 

More ....

http://www.businessinsider.com/cia-presentation-on-big-data-2013-3?op=1 

http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/cias-chief-tech-officer-on-big-data-we-try-to-collect-everything-and-hang-onto-it-forever/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/Emily-Bunting-Leigh-Van-Bryan-UK-tourists-arrested-destroy-America-Twitter-jokes.html

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