The NSA has nearly complete backdoor access to Apple's iPhone
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 devices 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 spywaresomething the agency has achieved by rerouting shipments of devices purchased onlinebut a remote version of the exploit is also in the works.
Update : Apple denies it helped build the NSA's iPhone backdoor.
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.
Do you think Apple helped them with that? Appelbaum asked. I hope Apple will clarify that.
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I'm sure Apple was just trying to help bring i-terrorists to justice. Right?
I hope they find my email more interesting than I do
Credit cards anyone? Remember when the movies showed how they track fugitives by cerdit card usage, taxes, census, birth certificates and library cards? Now they don't even have to leave their desk. We provide it all. What have we to hide? [insert sarc here]