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There is no security in mobile communications and Wikileaks uncovers it in the latest data leak

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Are you concerned about your privacy? The secrecy of communications is a basic premise in the laws but that seems that nowadays it is more of a piece of paper than anything else, or at least that's the way it is for certain state agencies that roam free, jumping regulations and legal barriers at will.

That is at least what emerges from the latest declassification of documents carried out by Wikileaks in which the privacy of our mobile communications is called into question , regardless of the system we use.Windows, iOS and Android have fallen under the feet of the all-powerful CIA.

And no, don't think that with the ciphers that companies display we are safe because according to the documents the CIA had (who knows if they still have it) a unit dedicated to breaking those ciphers It is more surely you can think that it is a matter of WhatsApp and its weaknesses. Well no, since even an app like Signal, recommended by Edward Snowden as the safest, also has its door open thanks to the American agency.

There are almost 9,000 documents that Wikileaks has made public in which it states that unlimited espionage was widespread In this way, this process known as Engineering Development Group would have had access to any content shared by these applications, be it text, audio, photos….

And no, don't think it ends here, since in the same way they had us geolocated at all times thanks to our _smartphone_ . And if you escaped, don't worry, since they have also had access to the espionage of data provided on _smart_ TVs, computers or even home routers.

When it comes to mobile phones, it was perhaps the most easily violable part and no, it had nothing to do with the operating system, because even the iPhone that by many it is considered the quintessential security model it was also under the eye of big brother thanks to a special unit that created _malware_ to run on iOS.

For now there is no response from the CIA or the government of Donald Trump to this information but the truth is that we are facing a fact especially serious since it is not a question of security holes that can be covered, but of the possibility of breaking the encryption in communications with a great engineering work that will cause more than one person to think about returning to SMS.

The truth is that the return to the traditional, to the telephone without the nickname _smart_ is something that many people value each time We have Seen with the recently presented Nokia 3310 and seen what has been seen will be a possibility to take into account, at least if we want to continue having some privacy.

In Xataka | The largest Wikileaks leak on the CIA: almost 9,000 documents on espionage with smart TVs, smartphones and others Via | Wikileaks

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