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Edward Snowden has developed an iPhone case meant to kill surveillance

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National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has come up with a concept iPhone case that could prevent the government from finding your location.</p><p>
Smartphones, while incredibly useful, are also the “perfect tracking device,” Snowden wrote in a co-authored paper (https://www.pubpub.org/pub/direct-radio-introspection) that covers his research.</p><p>
Governments can monitor a user’s location through the radio signals from the phone and this can put journalists, activists, and rights workers in danger, he warned.</p><p>
On Thursday, Snowden and hacker Andrew Huang presented a possible solution. It’s called “the introspection engine,” and it’s designed to alert the user if and when the phone’s radio signals are turned on.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3098672/security/edward-snowden-has-developed-an-iphone-case-meant-to-kill-surveillance.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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