New Trend is Internet of Things For The Intelligence Agencies
The US National Intelligence Agency director James Clapper told that the internet of things devices can be used by the intelligence services. And These words made a big debate. NSA’s largest social network monitoring, reorganizing Samsung’s smart TV users contract by adding substances and unauthorized…
The US National Intelligence Agency director James Clapper told that the internet of things devices can be used by the intelligence services. And These words made a big debate.
NSA’s largest social network monitoring, reorganizing Samsung’s smart TV users contract by adding substances and unauthorized listening to your voice by Chrome are actually the major developments shed light on these days.
Likewise unauthorized listening by Chrome,the smart devices in our lives that again questioned.But smart technology companies always defend themselves being user-oriented. The intelligence services need to work on everything in the information-gathering that could threaten national security and does not hesitate to say that it extends to every device connected to the internet.
‘In the future, intelligence services might use the internet of things for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment’, says James Clapper, US director of national intelligence. To give a few examples, Fitbit and Dropcam in the case of services data has been requested as evidence in various cases. Your child may even spy in your home with a connected to the Internet doll.
In short, there is a linear correlation between increasing internet connected devices and probability of unauthorized listening. Because cyber hackers also use these methods like intelligence agencies.
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Rachel Kowalski
Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.
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