The U.S. National Security Agency has the ability to snoop on nearly every communication sent from an Apple iPhone, according to leaked documents shared by security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and German news magazine Der Spiegel.
An NSA program called DROPOUTJEEP allows the agency to intercept SMS messages, access contact lists, locate a phone using cell tower data, and even activate the device’s microphone and camera.
According to leaked documents, the NSA claims a 100 percent success rate when it comes to implanting iOS devices with spyware. The documents suggest that the NSA needs physical access to a device to install the spyware—something the agency has achieved by rerouting shipments of devices purchased online—but a remote version of the exploit is also in the works.
Appelbaum says that presents one of two possibilities:
“Either [the NSA] have a huge collection of exploits that work against Apple products, meaning they are hoarding information about critical systems that American companies produce, and sabotaging them, or Apple sabotaged it themselves,” Appelbaum said at the Chaos Communication Conference in Hamburg, Germany.
(ht Micah Armantrout)
Another reason to dislike the iPhone, granted Android has it's own security flaws as well. If one needs a smartphone they're probably better off with the new Blackberries or hell even the new Windows Phone might be decent.
ReplyDeleteAll of them are vulnerable not just Apple. I think however that Apple does a better job in this category than the rest of them. This is what I like to think. Steve would not have allowed this.
DeleteThere's no way Microsoft or Google are any better than Apple when it comes to this sort of thing. What we need is something like Firefox OS to take off; an alternative not provided by a company that needs the state to enforce its intellectual property cartel. Because that's what Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, and the like are: cartels. They spend more on patent litigation than research and development now. They acquire wealth via the coercive violence of the state.
ReplyDeleteBoth Android (the OS running on Google's phones) and Firefox are open source; there is no advantage in using one over the other in terms of transparency of the operating system.
DeleteIphone is for morons. They are so damn ugly too - *everything* about them is ugly.
ReplyDeleteyou understand nothing in smartphones. millions of people like iPhones
Deletehttp://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/
ReplyDeleteMozilla Firefox OS. Not yet available in the US at retail except as a "developer preview" phone, but it will be.
Open source wouldn't unravel anything. The spooks at the NSA can get into ANYTHING... they spy on everybody. Regardless of how well you attempt to secure your poo, they'll get in. For hell's sake, regardless of the possibility that you go off the lattice completely and live in a shack amidst no place, they'll simply look through your dividers with an automaton or something in circle. Yes, it is an intrusion of security, also unlawful... at the same time these sorts of govt organizations have been doing this since there has been goverments... what's more they'll generally be doing it, behind the shadows. thanks!
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