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    Tuesday 31 December 2013

    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 interceptSMS 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

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