On: I Tracked Myself With $170 Smartphone Spyware that Anyone Can Buy

[blakesterz]

>> The attacker needed access to the phone.

Yeah, he clearly says he had to side load that thing, and yet near the top of the story he says this:

'With a single SMS message, this spy had remotely activated the microphone in my smartphone, turning it into a portable and surreptitious eavesdropping device.'

That kind of implies that is how this thing was installed, but that's not really how it worked.

[serg_chernata → blakesterz]

Well, he says it was "activated" via sms, not installed.