Hermit Spyware Being Used By Government and ISP's To Spy On You

In this video I discuss Hermit spyware which is being used by the Kazakh, and Syrian governments to spy on their citizens. This spyware was developed and sold to the governments by private companies RCSlab and Tykelab.
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[@cd-yx3nv]

Imagine the mass surveillance that we DONT know about. It haunts me.

[@tissuepaper9962]

Every day I feel like "return to monke" is less of a meme and more of a genuine life goal for me. The only way to have any privacy today is to be self-sufficient and not have an internet connection.

[@waterandafter]

I knew a military guy prior to 2001 that said whatever technology the public is using, the military is 20 years ahead of that. Of course, 20 years of war might have tightened it up a bit.

[@USGovIsDistributingCSAM]

@@waterandafter 20 years at Secret clearance, 50 years at top secret, 200+ years at Cosmic Top secret. Basically Cosmic top secret was the secret space program, which now is the space force made public by Trump administration.

[@a45987]

@@waterandafter i think sometimes they can be surprisingly behind

[@waterandafter]

@@a45987 I try not to confuse technological advances with the chaos/clusterfuck of politics which continuously proves there's no deep state (just a bunch of power hungry individuals and corporations).

[@steamynoodles507]

“When things seem almost legit, that’s when they are the most sus” Wise words

[@sudo11]

What do think about your parents do you think they're your legit parents ? 😂

[@vlgrx]

@@sudo11 wtf are you saying

[@sudo11]

@@vlgrx A J O K E

[@vlgrx]

@@sudo11 yeah good luck with it

[@Rembd]

@@sudo11 unfunny zoomer

[@bigbruv5328]

You gotta love how these cyber security companies will show you all their detailed policies about how they respect people’s privacy and human rights. Then proceed to sell spyware to governments who have no respect for people’s online privacy.

[@transforgoku]

Reminds me of a country that preaches "democracy" to the world but has alliances with dictatorships if it benefits them, using every trick in the book to keep it's power on top, even to the detriment of other sovereign nations if it suits their "interests", this is really a 🤡🌎

[@EgnachHelton]

Yep, I won't have any sympathy to people who work for or invest in such companies if anything unfortunate happen to them.

[@Eavesdropping]

A b c d e f g alphabet boys are watching me

[@spamlogs2701]

Didnt it just say in the video that google warned users of this? How are they the ones doing it

[@N.S.A.]

...

[@zakhar6338]

LGBT?

[@WJINTL]

X Y *This comment has been removed as it doesn't follow our community guidelines*

[@justahumanwithamask4089]

I always feel like somebody's watchin' me And I have no privacy (Oh-oh-oh) I always feel like somebody's watchin' me Tell me, is it just a dream?

[@julezleo3624]

"Your internet doesn't work. Here, download this app of the internet to fix it" Ah yes, seems very logical and totally unsuspicious.

[@tissuepaper9962]

2 billion+ people just gained internet access in the last ten years. It really isn't that unbelievable that the average human would fall for this, because the average human is still living with primarily 70s tech. It's easy to brush this off because you'd never fall for it, don't forget about all the people who are privacy infants living in sweet oblivion, ignorant of the danger lurking all around them, ignorant of history that mirrors the present day, ignorant to just how much their data is worth to their government and the corporations in cahoots with their government. We can talk about these things freely, we can warn each other without fear that we'll get disappeared. Do you think the average Kazakh or Syrian has the same luxury?

[@surewhynot6259]

Yeah, and everyone else here is freaking out over this. "This is the scariest thing out there rn" ... no, not if you're tech savvy.

[@rubixtheslime]

@@surewhynot6259 yeah the problem is that's a stupidly small percentage of people. Unless your entire family is as tech savvy and privacy mindful as you, guess who has to "fix" it when someone else downloads malware.

[@davewxc]

>95% of people I know will do it. People watching this channel already have some knowledge and necessary paranoia to realize these things happen.

[@Krawurxus]

Most of the viewership on channels like this one would immediately catch on, but I think you vastly underestimate how tiny of a minority we are. This would probably work on between 80-99% of regular users. Governments don't care about people like you or me. Any opsec-conscious individual is already too much of a PITA to get at for most of these low-level threats. But they can cast this net and catch most of the fish in the sea. This includes most criminals BTW. The amount of people getting caught because they had documentation of or communication about what they were up to on their personal social media profile or on some centralized messenger app like WhatsApp is staggering. Having grown up watching Breaking Bad, reading about how IRL criminals are usually caught was a huge disappointment.

[@ElTatiMar]

The thing that pisses me off is, If I was the one doing this I would be considered a criminal, but they can just get away with it. This double standard must end, we need to do something to level the playing field.

[@Binary_Kommando]

And are still surprised that the government is just another mafia? When you look through the right lenses there is no double standard here.

[@ElTatiMar]

@@Binary_Kommando I'm not surprised in any way, I just want all the players to play by the same rules. If you do things that you say only bad people do, aren't you just as bad as them? What about due process? There are legal ways, not saying they are moral in any way, but legal ways of obtaining data.

[@Binary_Kommando]

@@ElTatiMar Hehe, the mafia would never let their grip loose on us. Democracy, the idea of outsourcing our choices to someone else will always lead to no good, when they have power over you they'll not give it back, that's why the second amendment is a thing. I agree that everyone should be on level playing field but as long as they have power over us and basically decide what is right or wrong arbitrarily we'll not live in that 'utopia'.

[@Krawurxus]

You know what they say: The state has a monopoly on violence, and you have no recourse.

[@tezwoacz]

This will never happen, throughout history people in power were above law, it never mattered wether you lived in democracy, monarchy or communist state, people in power always got away with it, the best you can do is be aware and protect yourself to the best of your ability.

[@spamlogs2701]

Thanks for making us aware! Id rather have no internet and privacy than internet and no privacy

[@phillipanselmo8540]

why are you on the internet then

[@MingusDynastyy]

Nah

[@Boromir_vlogs]

​@today was a good day DON'T CARE

[@BeHappyTo]

@@Boromir_vlogs its a bot

[@SquirrelTheorist]

@@BeHappyTo Yes, it's best not to respond to it

[@sethbingo]

Seems like privacy with any form of internet connection is simply impossible. Even without internet simply having a smart device means you're getting tracked lmao

[@waterandafter]

Even if you go out without your phone, leave the car at home, there's cameras everywhere.

[@Mr.SpicyIce]

@@waterandafter "even if you go out" 💀

[@hamperhamp895]

Israel literally developed a form of spyware, called Pegasus, that gives complete access to a phone with just the phone number. There is no privacy nowadays.

[@bountoj]

And if you have a bank account and use credit cards, etc... Modern society is baked with these things.

[@Sasha-zw9ss]

@@bountoj You're saying it as if cash was banned)

[@imusingwindowsbtw1469]

This mass surveillance in my opinion boils down to a societal issue. The general population only cares about privacy if it means "zero effort". They don't want to be tracked (like Apples "do not track" app button showed), but they will not do anything about it if the private option takes even slightly more effort then the spyware option. The general public would need to put its foot on the ground and refuse to use non-private products, as well as to show no mercy to any politician and party that supports mass surveillance. As long as that doesn't happen this stuff will keep on happening.

[@sirzorg5728]

Normies are fundamentally lazy.

[@idogaming3532]

Yep.

[@Jose04537]

The problem is that companies purposely broke their products or disable a lot of (arguely basic) functions if you try to op out or block their tracking. I'm a little tech savy (not advanced) and I wouldn't let my mother use any software unless is fool's proof.

[@idogaming3532]

@@Jose04537 yep. This anticonsumerism and capitalism is annoying and downright destructive. The most private operating system is Linux. I use EndeavourOS (a distribution of Linux lol, based on arch btw)

[@anthonybranco]

The general public is ok with mass surveillance and organized stalking of targets as long as it's not them or their own loved ones being spied on.

[@hivemind8817]

Google be like: OnLY wE CAn sPY oN YoU edit: just noticed something if I lost service how would my isp be messaging me, that kinda makes it obvious that its an attacker.

[@tissuepaper9962]

Don't forget that like 2billion people have just gained internet access in the last decade. It may seem obvious to you, especially now that you've been warned, but the average human being is still living with primarily 70s tech.

[@EliteSniperTV]

I've had to explain to people that no, your email isn't broken, you PC has never been on your internet LOL so.... Yeah... Tech literacy is BAD and marketing keeps making it worse

[@j100j]

@@EliteSniperTV Agreed. All companies want to make everyobe think that they can't be without their services and the mire people know about tech the more they realize that perhaps the tech company is not doing all the good stff and stop uaing their seevices thua the tech company ia motivated to have people know less.

[@EliteSniperTV]

@@j100j walled gardens and their kings

[@Carnyzzle]

This is exactly why the people who say, "Well I have nothing to hide why should I worry about being monitored" should be concerned about it

[@necrobynerton7384]

...Unfortunately there are, say very careless individuals, who will say straight to your face: "Yea let them come at me I have nothing to hide, I don't care." You cannot convince these people, believe me I have tried. The others would be "Ok great thanks for scaring me but I'll just continue like I heard nothing." Only way to actually make them reconsider is when something extraordinarily big happens publicly, like the sort of dystopia north korea lives in. Where your freedom doesn't matter. Or what is happening with the social credit scheme in china, but tenfold bigger. I feel at this point that people who do care are suffering from this carelessness of others, since they almost legally are telling people to barge into their life and install monitors everywhere. Or worse, let them control aspects of their life. Sorry for the rant.

[@helloofthebeach]

10:13 Syria: Malware seller, I am going into battle and I want your strongest malware. TCS: My malware is too strong for you, traveler.

[@benis3551]

*hacking intensifies* Government, hacked. Planet, hacked. keyboard, hacked. minced meat, hacked.

[@necrobynerton7384]

Hotel? Trivago.

[@mikhailsharon4331]

We don't trust the government even more.

[@LazyJesse]

When did we trust any government?

[@Gzuz187]

did you ever?

[@kenos911]

Yes, the one government that exists Why would you care if kazakh and Syrian citizens are being spied on? I thought they already were

[@kenos911]

@@user-ojmnvub Just because some people in those places are being spied on doesn’t mean you should panic. You were being spied on since long ago, but that’s besides the point

[@JadedWarlock]

The government: Creating problems so they can become your solutions.

[@AcidiFy574]

provided the govt actually worked

[@sdjhgfkshfswdfhskljh3360]

What you describe is almost perfect government in our world sadly. More real case: creating a problem and trying to kill anyone who tries to solve it.

[@Jose04537]

Sounds like Apple removing the headphone jack to sell air pods.

[@ArniesTech]

Our man doing the good work 💪 Keep spreading the word and raising awareness amongst fellow tech users 💪🙏

[@Thatguy-gc9qu]

Your videos are awesome, you really hit get right mix between Neutrality, Opinion and Memes or generally fun stuff. I really appreciate your work. Thank you so much for your time :)

[@bitanchowdhury4028]

The main problem IMO with Android devices is that the companies who make them stop software support after 3 year, not even provide security updates. That is nasty in my personal opinion.

[@absolutium]

On the other side ar any given day over 12000 variations with personalized software and a wide variety of hardware are being used all over the world.. which means one door key wont work for every device.. Security through diversity.

[@bitanchowdhury4028]

Imagine you are not getting any security updates for 1.5 year .... Would your device not be vulnerable ?

[@goeland4585]

@@absolutium 12000 variations of the same flavour of linux aka android

[@absolutium]

@@goeland4585 Here is a more accurate example when was the last time a virus for Android 4 affected a Galaxy fold?

[@Jose04537]

Samsung now gives you 4 years OS updates for their middle range to hign end phones.

[@xE92vD]

always quality content ngl.

[@sheepy0125]

@today was a good day oh neat the spammers found out how to bold stuff

[@joshallen128]

Mental outlaw is a honey pot I mean his advice is good to good

[@Boromir_vlogs]

@today was a good day DON'T CARE

[@Cyberfauna]

Thank you for putting out so much content, love your channel.

[@diboc741]

Thanks so much for sharing stuff like this. Great channel

[@Floridamangaming729]

Honestly at this point im finding it hard to find the motivation to keep my privacy. It feels borderline impossible.

[@Wheagg]

It's worth it, just keep doing small things

[@suaveosami]

Almost impossible there are people on this earth paid to find you

[@HaxxorElite]

It's not, if its important to you, you'll just have to do all you need to do. Is how it is

[@idontexist4951]

Honestly I feel the same, but remember you're already doing more for your privacy than most other people. As you gain more knowledge, you'll get better and better at it.

[@fredwupkensoppel8949]

If it takes them even one minute more to get what they want, that's already worth it. Think of the ending of "I have no mouth and I must scream". Do you have a chance to defeat something that's almighty? No. But if you can slightly annoy them once, you've done what you can. You showed them that they are, in fact, not all-powerful. That's what keeps me going.

[@wrockd]

*A little correction* The Exploit could only gain *root access* to your Device, if it's *already rooted.* And the spyware is pretty limited without root access. From the Lookout Blog. `These modules, along with the permissions the core apps have, enable Hermit to exploit a rooted device` `If the device is confirmed to be exploitable then it will communicate with the C2 to acquire the files necessary to exploit the device and start its root service. This service will then be used to enable elevated device privileges such as access to accessibility services, notification content, package use state and the ability to ignore battery optimization. Beyond the root service, some of the modules expect or attempt to use root access directly through a su binary. These modules will attempt to modify the shared preferences of the SuperSU app in order to enable the execution of root commands without user interaction.` *Also, it could prompt the user themselves in order to Root their Devices. But unless you have a Phone with Unlocked bootloader it isn't much of a threat* From the Lookout Blog. `If root is not available, the modules may prompt the user to take actions which will accomplish the same goals.` Great video tho, while much of it wasn't that much of a surprise. Still, the idea of shutting your internet service and then prompting you to install a malware is sure quite the elaborate and effective way of Social Engineering.

[@deoxal7947]

Thanks for this. Was very mad for a bit that a lot of androids can't be rooted by the average user but the OS could be exploited for root access.

[@wasteinfo]

I have root

[@trajectoryunown]

So it basically targets people who want more freedom to use their devices or don't want to have Apple or Google seeing everything they do... Well, that's _very_ comforting. Glad I opted to relock my bootloader after installing GrapheneOS. Thanks for the intel.

[@railgun9992]

I'm tech savvy enough i dont want to use shitty stock rom

[@smugmode]

Same social engineering trick to steal someone's WiFi and then other login creds. Basically you disable your target's WiFi temporarily (easy even without physical access), make a new network with the same ID as the target's legit network, then wait for them to try to log in to your network and the rest is where you get creative. I don't recommend doing any of that btw cuz unethical, usually illegal

[@MickeyMishra]

Your local police force uses this stuff on their downtime. Even to find dates on a friday night. You don't need a warrant if your doing things that are illegal. Right? I hope someone does a real security thread or video on the pine phones or something of that nature and really see how well it is locked down or sandboxed.

[@someone7826]

Weren't all the Pine Phones hacked in a big police operation relatively recently?

[@tzardnickolasthelitromanov]

"Glowies gunna be a Glowin' _especially and very_ hard, *To the point of being Platinum or Diamond here* "

[@no-better-name]

-blackbody- africanamericanbody radiation

[@user-df1gs1kf8w]

Amazing content! I have no clue where you find these sorts of outlets and not to mention how knowledgable you are on a variety of technical topics! I'm genuinely curiously how you started to learn the stuff you know today.

[@nuggert]

Sounds like you missed the glory days of 4chang bro

[@shinyrayquaza9]

I appreciate how you and mutahar show these things to people and help us try to keep safe and have some privacy

[@AcidiFy574]

Nah Mutahar is a coward this guy isn't

[@SkeletonGuyVT]

@@AcidiFy574 I'd love to hear what you've contributed not only to cyber security but literally anything in your life. Don't bother, I already know it's not much

[@AcidiFy574]

@@SkeletonGuyVT It's called Bug reporting & money, & spreading the word if nothing else Mutahar has a complacent attitude when it comes to cybersecurity This guy actually tries to give the middle-finger to mass Surveillance Oh & you are pretty useless, if all you can do is redirect insults

[@SkeletonGuyVT]

@@AcidiFy574 so you report Minecraft bugs to Microsoft support? And as far as I can tell, mass surveillance doesn't care if you tell it to fuck off

[@xynyde0]

@@AcidiFy574 "Nah Mutahar is a coward" Well everyone has a way of contributing to the society. Also, he is more of a gamer, edutainer than a opsec and cybersec expert. But still his videos are fun and informative.

[@nuggert]

They just want to make sure you dont have the real hashed wikileaks insurance files that were briefly released when assange was black bagged and before they ddosd the blockchain to obfuscate the key release and swapped them with archived source data that had already been available. They also want to make sure you werent part of a research group trying to find the key in the spammed up blockchain. No worries brah 🤙

[@nicksjacku9750]

Patriot Act

[@excidium_]

Efforts like this paired with hardware that is already compromised by the manufacturer make me fully aware that being conscious about privacy is a fun but ultimately pointless nerd hobby as far as the authorities are concerned

[@DrSeniorMilminaman]

That was a nice implementation of The Hermit tarot card. Thank you for adding that.😊

[@foxtailedcritter]

Great Another reason i wanna throw out my phone. Government survallance makes me sick. The older I get the more I relate to Ted Kaczynski.

[@Boromir_vlogs]

@today was a good day DON'T CARE

[@SquirrelTheorist]

Same here. Better to be safe than to have corrupt governments spying on you.

[@max_uaminecraft1827]

@@Boromir_vlogs you reacting to it is worse than not saying anything

[@someone7826]

Soon linux phones will be usable.

[@Boromir_vlogs]

@@max_uaminecraft1827 Why though?

[@edwardcardozo8325]

8:05 "El hornio" jajajaja

[@JeffyPDiddy]

Great content as always

[@260Xander]

At 1:10 i couldn't even pay attention to what you were saying due to the footage 😂 too funny

[@johnny2598]

There was one vid with a hecker typing with banana, that one was funny af.

[@abrvalg321]

He has an algebra for 8th grade textbook there.

[@chemojays]

I really enjoy your videos. A+

[@aimannorazman7959]

Be not afraid!

[@JacobCanote]

Love the three handed hardcore hacker footage.

[@un4given830]

Much love from Khazakstan

[@livingcodex9878]

"You logic is compromised which leads to your phone getting compromised as well." - Mental Outlaw

[@mokisan]

9:03 it happened in india. The Indian police form a city called pune planted fake evidence and arrested her.

[@divyanshuchouhan7257]

source?

[@ShrootBuck]

No way their true IP was revealed because of a proxy misconfiguration…

[@canaldecasta]

Someone is watching me cry? Damn.

[@Atilolzz]

But Apple told me iOS can't get viruses :)

[@firstNamelastName-ho6lv]

If I had a penny for how many viruses I got on my iPad...

[@kenos911]

@@firstNamelastName-ho6lv when I was like 10 I’d get them free robux iOS scams all the time. It bricked my iPad back then. Lol!

[@mathisblair2798]

Apple is the virus.

[@namenlosNamenlos]

they lie to you bih.

[@yes1351]

everyday I wonder if its better to have a citizen controlled gov instead than an actual gov

[@firstNamelastName-ho6lv]

We live in a society

[@RadikAlice]

I fail to see how that's even a question. Power to the people Lord knows they don't serve us

[@yes1351]

@@RadikAlice i doubt sometimes

[@someone7826]

Its calles Democracy and is a citizen controlled government. However most democracies don't live up to this expectation. Those in power learn to like their power.

[@PurpleDuneEfa]

really if you think about it, it would make more sense to have no government.

[@pacman_pol_pl_polska]

love from kazakhstan I hate the government so much it's unreal

[@melvinpatomendoza]

I totally agree with you.

[@shadowknight7756]

Just found the dudes channel checked his community posts and low and behold he's absolutely based.. Subscribed bro. Godspeed.

[@istvanbarta]

Technical POW it's amazing. A lot of people suffer how to root their smartphones and there are always hackers out there who do this easily and from "home office".

[@nimrodel3924]

Being a Syrian citizen, everything is bioluminecing right now.

[@marius9371]

nice

[@tubbiele2]

Thanks!

[@SadToffee]

Neat.

[@Kipviss]

1:01 scared the fuck outta me

[@Iancreed8592]

If something was planted on any of my devices this would be brought up in my defense. If it's now possible for them to do this remotely then there is no longer any way to prove it was actually you.

[@MrCool-lo3ls]

Not like that argument would hold in court. It's literaly the lawmakers doing this

[@someone7826]

The argument will only hold in court if you have somewhat of a proof for it.

[@SodusX]

Dude you're a fucking god. This is gold, great content as always!

[@snowingfate6100]

5:29 "Really serious shi- stuff" Lol he felt the algorithm get ready to nuke this video. JJ love the vid man.

[@woohoo2491]

Interesting tradeoff you have to have as an Android user. On one end, don't unlock the bootloader, but be out on security updates after like 2 years of owning the phone. On the other end, unlock your bootloader and put it at risk, but gain security updates for basically as long as you want through AOSP or Lineage based ROMs.

[@rejvaik00]

Yeah I'm getting very close to just abandoning the internet altogether once I learned about various things such as Pegasus and now this it just makes me not want to use the internet anymore

[@AsgerJon]

When your government has technology that seems to be actually working, all alarm bells should be ringing

[@6sixtysix]

Best channel on KZbin

[@AntiWanted]

Nice

[@hunterleach5710]

It should be illegal for online data of any kind to get collected without consent, and if they decide to have the company collect that data the company should also tell the users where it is going and where it is being sold if it is being sold, it should also be illegal for data brokers to collect any data of any kind without user consent,

[@idogaming3532]

Yep. Sadly anticonsumerism+capitalism exists.

[@fawkeyes5111]

such companies as well as arm factories aso are controlled by the government (or probably eu-parliament) they're only allowed to see their products when they get green light. in other words: the italian/eu-government decided it's a good idea to sell to syria aso.

[@someone7826]

I don't think the EU directly controls every single arms deal or cyber weapon deal. Such things are different in each member state.

[@verack1616]

8:02 That's a pretty low reward for the hornio

[@ioann9262]

🔥🔥

[@stullex_]

Hey I just Wanne day thank your for making me paranoid. I've changed so much in the last couple of days on my privacy

[@fromfareast3070]

I remember back then a friend of Italy i think he probably got this malware when he's phone is sequestred by authority. And he got busted.

[@Gr3yCard1nal]

Main Kazakhstan cellular providers are Beeline and Kazakhtelecom (Tele2, Altel and etc). I've never heard of STS Telecom. P.s. Looks like they are only work in Astana (current capital) and Almaty (former capital) cities.

[@alejandroalzatesanchez]

1:00 Goverment: **Roots my device** ME: HOWWWWWWWWW i cant where is the backdoor dude i want to kick out the bloatware :/

[@benjotest5990]

Please make a video on proton unlimted and your thoughts

[@idcrafter-cgi]

luckily do i use pinephone which isn't yet targeted by that spyware and it seems to stay like that for some time

[@Zskyshark]

Is there a possibility you can make a video on how Pegasus worked and the code around it?

[@Andriej69]

One more for the catalogue

[@flalspspsl6858]

this video glows

[@ltxr9973]

Losing phone service would be a blessing. No more spam calls, you can just use your phone as the MP3 player it's supposed to be.

[@demipy]

They glow in the dark... fucking Alphabet Bois

[@krackerkruncher]

"Just don't do anything wrong and you have nothing to worry about"

[@Cacaborea]

syria how am i not suprised

[@amacias2012]

They took the tool that people were using to organize and share knowledge with each other and turn it against them.

[@igorthelight]

Everything could be used against someone. People themselves are uploading all their information over the Internet just to brag ;-)

[@doktorparadox1791]

In Europe govt forces use white common supply vans to melt in into traffic and so on.

[@alsoeris]

bout to just become my own ISP

[@antecboy]

Is it detectable after the fact through some means? I mean it could be used as evidence in court that a third party has tampered with the device and have used to upload incriminating material to the phone? Of course the defense would need to be aware of the existence of the software to prove it's existence on the device

[@davewxc]

First you need to be aware, next you need to be allowed to prove it. That means you need the original device for a counter expertise investigation without it being tampered with. In places like Kazachstan or Syria, this will not be allowed. In the USA they can delay a long time and keep the journalist locked up while they pretend to be investigating. That is even assuming they won't use the full remote access to purge the mallware before they make the arrest so only the planted evidence remains. I'd expect the NSA to do that.

[@joewieher6939]

@@davewxc yeah I completely agree, I think by the time you may realize what has happened no one cares and your locked up.

[@talk2daGLOCK]

I feel like the government sent me this recommendation to let me know they're watching

[@barrettkepler7618]

Cyberpunk is already here

[@chukwu_9]

Well Damn

[@guilherme5094]

👍

[@abrazbashar]

Wow

[@FuzzyDunlots]

At least the Chinese are fully aware of their surveillance.

[@therealb888]

A hermit on pegasus how poetic!

[@mikadrakolis4556]

I have been recently getting strange behaviour on my phone. I am not sure if that’s related. I am getting system messages with “provider settings updates” every day several times. I wonder if this can mean something similarly bad, or if it is just German Vodafone being German Vodafone. Would be nice if there is a way to check it somehow…German government likes spying a lot (especially since I am Russian, they are probably afraid I might store rockets to bomb someone at home)

[@isaacdavidaliendres528]

didn't know you played starsector

[@fuoisdf]

7:40 bugs are patched all the time, so finding multiple backup plans are reasonable.

[@CNC295]

We are finding this software in similar types on phones in Canada

[@58geniusplayer]

Do you have some links for sources?

[@St0RM33]

magisk (used to root android phones) generally prompts you to give root permissions to anything requesting them..not sure if they can bypass this unless they install a custom bootloader

[@necrobynerton7384]

Or somehow manage to install their own version of magisk? but If I remember correctly, you'd have to reboot for that to happen, on addition to having it already installed/flashed. Planned rebooting maybe? I don't know, not very well versed but I feel like it is very much possible to exploit this stuff. There are lots of possibilities, and I am not sure what the tech is on kazakhstan but if there are lots of people with older android phones... I think that is very feasible.

[@SlainByTheWire]

Me remembering my WiFi on my phone turning off for no reason twice in the past few days and receiving calls to which I didn't answer. 😐 This channel is gonna make me skits.

[@plaguis1391]

That's just the Wired reaching out to you, accept it

[@robertlasiter9856]

Great Value brand NSO group

[@hellothere-tj5eb]

Dude, your videos are making me schizo Is there even a way to get total privacy?

[@Keniisu]

Unless you want to go full Ted, your goal should be minimizing surveillance as much as it is reasonable for you - instead of a total, and absolute form of privacy.

[@Foxygamer0101]

@@Keniisu or just live on an unknown island

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

You’d have to disappear and live of the grid and hope you’re not found by drones and other stuff. Good luck.

[@MP-tz2yn]

@@Keniisu Ted Kaczinsky?

[@sethbingo]

Not unless you go live in a cabin in the wilderness

[@dan-tv1kp]

Cool, but does it work on the latest versions of iOS and/or Android? Makes a diff.