Snowden outlines government cellphone hacking tools, says he’s willing to do

According to Snowden, there is very little smartphone users can do to block these remote controls, or even determine that their phones have been manipulated, as the “Paranoid Smurf” tool masks or destroys all traces of intelligence agency presence.

Snowden also informed that GCHQ agency could use to recover pictures on any smart phone and to listen to talks over the said phone by sending an encrypted written message from state of the art smart phone. “But we haven’t gotten much further than that”. “What I won’t do is I won’t serve as a deterrent to people trying to do the right thing in hard situations”, that aired on BBC this Monday.

The NSA leaker told the BBC that the U.S. Department of Justice has yet to respond to his offer.

The United Kingdom government commented: “All of GCHQ’s work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework, which ensures that our activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous oversight, including from the secretary of state, the interception and intelligence services commissioners and the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee”.

As for whether the USA government will allow Snowden back in the country, officials aren’t so sure.

In July, former attorney general Eric Holder told Yahoo News that the “possibility exists” the Justice Department would agree to a plea bargain for Snowden.

He said both GCHQ and the NSA had invested heavily in technology allowing them to hack smartphones.

Snowden is facing multiple felony charges in the United States that could lead to more than three decades in prison.

“When it arrives at your phone it’s hidden from you”. Wizner said Snowden wouldn’t accept any deal that involved a felony plea and prison time. Snowden told the BBC he didn’t think the charges were fair.”The Espionage Act finds anyone guilty who provides any information to the public, regardless of whether it is right or wrong”, he said.

Despite his exile to Russian Federation, Snowden has maintained a high profile since coming forward as the source of revelations about government spying- taking to panels via livestream, giving interviews and by recently joining Twitter.