[liotier]

> So what do you do with your phone, ipad, laptop, etc? Clip all the microphones?

You use software that you trust.

Yes, that restricts options severely... I mostly use software whose source is public and anything closed is handled as suspicious (for example, Cyanogenmod's Privacy Guard comes handy to fence applications in - but something as basic as looking at networks traffic is a good basic check).

[TeMPOraL]

It's all fine until it's firmware that is spying on you. Or baseband chip.