ABSTRACT
Mobile devices—cellular phones, tablet computers, laptops, and much more—are everywhere in the world. The smartphone proliferation has created a global problem for information assurance and government, corporate, organizational, and personal privacy and security. In the United States, the NSA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology take primary responsibility for security solutions for government and for the critical infrastructure. In the United States, spying on foreign leaders requires presidential authorization. US officials, from the president on down, have been trying to repair the damage in relations with Merkel and with the BND. In an interesting related development involving MH-17, the mobile phone of Australia's foreign minister, Julie Bishop, was hacked by a "foreign organization" when she was traveling trying to help arrange a deal to visit the MH-17 crash site. A smartphone is a complicated device and is more powerful than a personal computer because of its sensors and radios.
