all C-iapple iphone's and mac's loaded factory fresh with permanent .gov approved spyware ( Archived) (25)

I bet the Hollow Treestump and the Rockhole will become the Vogue again!

Is there an app for that

The NSA knows....................

Touché

I guess this is why the USA government had a huge and well publicised battle with Apple over opening the iphone of a terror suspect, so they could read the contents.
Or why the UK government is about to hold a meeting with Google and other media owners, to find a way for the security agencies to read encrypted messages.

You OP is just a mass of conspiracy theories that can so easily be disproved.

Personally, if a security company wants to read my emails, my text messages or even listen to phone calls , I have no problem with that, other than to apologise in advance for boring some agent to death.
The safety of society comes way ahead of me asking someone to buy me some fried rice!

Shouldn't be so hasty to jump to conclusions there. They've already had the technology to track your location through cell phones well over a decade now. Even when you turn the cell off, they can turn it back on again and continue tracking...one would have to remove the battery to stop them. This isn't any conspiracy at all, I've witnessed it several times. As technology advances so does the ability to make spying that much more easier.

I can go back even further with the police in the 80's having black boxes in the trunks of their cruisers, and just like pointing a speed radar gun at passing cars to detect speed, this device was capable of eavesdropping on mobile communications a few block away. I've also seen this technology with my own eyes.

I don't think I need to mention what satellites are capable of.

Of course you can track phones and eavesdrop on conversations, never said you couldn't, but the OP suggested that the Government was forcing manufacturers to install spy software as firmware into new phones, I was just pointing out that this is untrue, as if it was the case, then why did the examples I gave come up?

Many many moons ago, when I was working with a certain computer company, an in-house and brilliant programmer designed a software encryption system that was almost unbreakable, the idea was to sell to banks for money transfers etc, however, the GCHQ in the UK got wind of this software and threatened the company with massive fines or worse unless they gave the source code to GCHQ, the company declined the offer and said they would drop the software from their product list.

That company is today, famous for their phone security. And GCHQ still cannot decrypt their software

I don't know if "forcing" would be the best choice of words, when it could be just as easily to have a shadow company proposing such firmware and not clueing the manufacturer's in on what they don't want to be exposed. This, of course, is mere speculation but given that it is quite possible, should not be ruled out.
Governments, especially those like the US and GB, perhaps even China and Russia have been proven to be quite sneaky in their efforts to keep track of situations worthy of spying on.