Kenya: The text messages in your phone can easily be accessed by intelligence agencies and even private individuals keen to know your personal secrets. Hacking of SMS data and emails is already at the centre of an international scandal in which the United States government was caught red- handed snooping into the communication secrets of presidents of foreign countries like Germany and Mexico. Closer home, suspicion has always been rife that our own National Intelligence Service (NIS) has been creeping behind our backs to know what we communicate using our phones and computers. In fact, monitoring of telephone conversations was prevalent even before the advent of mobile telephony. Hacking and tapping of communication channels for prominent personalities and persons of interest to governments started in Kenya way back during the era of the Special Branch Unit.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:47:58 +0000
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