Recently released research on software used by police / intelligence agencies for mobile phone surveillance: https://citizenlab.org/2014/06/backdoor-hacking-teams-tradecraft-android-imp... . The piece in Wired piece covering this was particularly well done: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/remote-control-system-phone-surveillance/ Also worth a glance: Associated Press: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/eyes-you-experts-reveal-police-hacking-method... VICE: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/police-grade-mobile-spyware-is-spreading-th... International Business Times: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hacking-team-tools-allow-governments-take-full-cont...  -- Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them