Today, we use phones for everything, and if I have to take a guess, many would feel completely naked without them. But what people might not know is that someone could be listening. A former CIA spy now shares a terrifying verdict on what our phones can hear.
It’s common knowledge that you can use your phone to help you get to wherever you are going, accepting that it can “trace” you. On today’s phones, there are hundreds of thousands of apps that can do this or that, helping you with whatever you need.
But what you might not know is that the device can also be a listening device. On the podcast The Diary of a CEO, former CIA operative John Kiriakou has shared a terrifying verdict on phones and what they can hear.
In 2012, he became ´ the first CIA staff member to be convicted for exposing the shadowy US agency’s enhanced interrogation program He was accused and convicted of handing over classified documents to a journalist.
He served two years at the Federal Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania between 2013 and 2015. Before that, he was serving a three-month sentence of house arrest.
Former CIA intelligence officer shares terrifying truth about what our phones can hear
Kiriakou was a CIA intelligence analyst and operations officer at the Counterterrorism Center. Also, he was acting as the senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Speaking on the podcast, host Steven Bartlett asked John Kiriakou about digital security.
“You talked about the fact that it’s possible for these forces in not just the US, but other countries, to be able to hack and crack your devices. I think we all go around assuming that our devices are secure,” he asked.
Kiriakou replied, “They’re not secure, at all. It’s not just the NSA/CIA/FBI that you have to worry about, it’s the British, the French, the Germans, the Canadians, the Australians, the New Zealanders, the Russians, the Chinese, the Israelis, the Iranians. Everybody has these capabilities, everybody, so you’ve gotta be very, very careful.”
The former CIA officer said they can intercept communications.
“It can still hear everything”
Moreover, John Kiriakou, a whistleblower, shared that they can take control of the car and even remotely turn on a smart TV’s speaker into a microphone, even though it isn’t on.
“There was something in 2017 called the Vault 7 Revelations. There was a CIA software engineer who was disgruntled, and instead of going to the Russians or the Chinese, he went to WikiLeaks, and he downloaded thousands, tens of thousands of pages of documents classified above top secret. And they became what WikiLeaks called the Vault 7 documents,” he continued, explaining how the CIA can intercept communications. “It can still hear everything that’s being said in the room and broadcast [it] back to the CIA.”
He concluded, “When I first got hired [in the 1980s], they were able to do that, that’s old technology. And then the thing about the car, this was revelatory. They can take control, again remotely, of a car’s computer system in order to kill you. Crash the car, take it off a bridge, take it into a tree, sure.”
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