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CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices

Posted by timothy on from the hey-fellas-we-were-expecting-you dept.

According to a story at The Guardian passed on by an anonymous reader, The CIA led sophisticated intelligence agency efforts to undermine the encryption used in Apple phones, as well as insert secret surveillance back doors into apps, top-secret documents published by the Intercept online news site have revealed. he newly disclosed documents from the National Security Agency's internal systems show surveillance methods were presented at its secret annual conference, known as the "jamboree."

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  1. Jailbreak developers are the real patriots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Through their hard work, numerous exploits have been discovered, which has led to Apple patching them, which in the end keeps us all more secure.

  2. Compiler compromise by facetube · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ken Thompson was a visionary, but he probably didn't envision it'd be his own government doing the compromising:
    Reflections on Trusting Trust