NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has teamed up with renowned hardware hacker Andrew “Bunnie” Huang on the development of an iPhone accessory designed to detect when the phone’s radios are actively transmitting.
The idea behind the device is to provide reporters and journalists traveling in dangerous regions with a way to determine if their iPhone is being tracked or otherwise giving up its location.
Certain governments, they claim, have access to high-level hacking techniques and can even deploy malware that can trick people into thinking their device is off when it’s really awake and actively eavesdropping on conversations.
