Would installing this spyware require physical access to the device (eg. flashing the ROM?) If so, that's kind of boring, because with physical access to the phone I could just put my own bug with its own mic, using it's own power & network inside the phone's case and easily read all your data without modifying anything on the phone or giving any "tells" like increasing network usage.<p>Also presumably if law enforcement needed to listen in, there would be better ways to do so than to physically steal your phone... like subpoenaing the phone company.
> source code for the programme had been dumped online by hackers<p>No references to online source or even the malware's name is made in the article. Does anyone have more information on this?
Hm, is there currently any mobile anti-virus software available that would have caught and blocked the Hacking Team exploits before the reveal?<p>Are there actually any "standard" security procedures for mobile? I suppose a vast majority of customers simply trust OS vendors to release a secure environment.