Did I recently read about hacks into "flashlight apps" on phones?

[annabanana]

Help me out here. If there are hacks into flashlight apps, couldn't those lights at the Mar-a-Lago dinner party send pictures of the documents being illuminated to who knows where?

edit for link
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mobile-phone-apps-malware-risks-how-to-prevent-hacking-breach/

[brooklynite]

1. That would just be silly...

Imagine the idea of the President using an unsecured phone...

[lapfog_1]

2. yes...

and there are hacks that make those phones into "open mics"

child's play for Russian hackers... or even North Korean hackers

[ksoze]

3. There are hacks into everything right now

Not just some flashlight app. I bet the security cameras at that place were hacked long ago and saw everything anyway.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Sure could-- my Android flashlight apps keep giving me little popups and links...

and Here's Snopes' take on it:

http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/flashlight.asp

Bad enough if Amazon wants to steal my data, but Russians stealing White House guest data? Or, worse, White House employee data?

(Remember all that flack over Obama's Blackberry?)

[unblock]

5. good idea, maybe that way we can find out what russia is up to!

[Dr Hobbitstein]

6. It's not a hack into flashlight apps,

it's for people who download an app to use the camera flash as a flashlight. Some phones have this as a built in feature (newer Samsungs, and most iPhones), others you have to download an app. Some of those apps are nothing more than information gatherers.