How Smartphones Are Becoming Pocket Spies

Pocket Spies: Smartphone Actionable Intelligence -- Computer World

Photographer and writer Michael Yon, a former Green Beret, has been with our combat troops and reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan since 2004. Yon recently published an extremely interesting article titled Pocket Spies which deals with how our smartphones act like a pocket spy which we willingly carry, yet many people don't consider the hidden dangers. Yon has seen a perilous side of it that many of us never will, when carrying a phone can potentially cost the lives of U.S. troops.

Since GPS tracking is a huge issue that SCOTUS is deciding right now, I interviewed Yon about pocket spies and actionable intelligence. He's seen some U.S. combat units that are careful and aware of the hidden dangers from smartphone pocket spies and some that are not. Here's the first of a two part series:

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My Comment: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said the same thing today when he disclosed the billion dollar global spying industry .... and .... more to the point .... on how they infiltrate our mobile devices.