Is your Bluetooth speaker monitoring you? Does anyone understand how these speakers function? The electronics and software involved are all capable of it. So where’s the intention?
I had a look at Anker, one of Amazon’s premier BT speakers. Their English arm appears to be solely owned by one private individual of Chinese nationality, although most of the money appears to go through Malta…
Any electronics wizards interested in reverse engineering one of these speakers and demonstrating that I’m correct about their capabilities? Any private investigators and forensic accountants interested in profiling the owners?
My Apple iPhone Tips app just suggested that I update my legacy contact so I know I’m onto something…
This comes off the back of my new found understanding that cyber (in)security is rife and our devices are being used to broadcast our lives as some kind of underground entertainment for the elite.
But surely Apple, Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure would protect their customers and blow the whistle on these bad actors! Think again. Apple makes it very clear in their terms and conditions that they will not get involved in anything to do with data security and or cyber crime.
In fact, beyond the data protection laws they have to comply with, all of which are about 20 years behind the reality of what is going on, their legal teams have clearly advised them that telling their customers they’ve been hacked is the same as admitting liability.
Welcome to one of the biggest cover ups of the 21st Century and prepare yourself for the biggest scandal to hit the news since Watergate (in 10 years time when all the main players have disappeared with the money).
Paranoid, psychotic and dangerous to know? Yes. They are.