CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices

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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In some way, obvious

[cant_get_a_good_nick]

If i wanted to really know someone, I'd bug the computer in their pocket with the GPS and the microphone.

The big news is, when does the "hey lets go after foreign enemies" change to "well, american, foreign, it's all the same to me"

The hacked compiler is kind of interesting too. Lets insert backdoors into ALL TEH iTHINGs!!!