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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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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.
Ken Thompson was a visionary, but he probably didn't envision it'd be his own government doing the compromising:
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The very act of having an nationalized health care system would put as much personal information in the hands of the US Government any random NSA snoop of Wikipedia or break in on someone's mobile would.
What utter fucking bullshit.
Can my health records determine who I am friends with? Where I go? Where I browse online? Who I communicate with? What investments I have? And 100 other things the gov't could (and have) use as leverage to get information out of me if they wanted.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
I don't think this is a "tried to" at all, just look at the permissions a lot of stuff asks for.
Facebook, a bunch of EA games, Angry Birds, etc all ask for insane permissions ranging from your full contact list, to seeing who you are on a call with to accessing the microphone. It's a spook's wet-dream.