"Never worked with NSA": Apple defends himself: iPhone has no spy ... - ABC Online

“Apple has never cooperated with the NSA, in order to create a back door in any of our products, the iPhone included,” it said in a statement the Group from late Tuesday (local time). The company has until now nothing has been known by a NSA program have the Apple products in their sights.

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The “mirror” and the activist Jacob Appelbaum had published in early 2008 from the collection of the informant Edward Snowden an NSA document. It describes the secret a built-in module for iPhones. With the implant called “Dropoutjeep” could be intercepted communication of the user. According to the document, the NSA was still needed access to the device itself, but wanted to work on methods for accessing remotely. Beginning of 2008 was the very first iPhone version on the market, smartphones and its software have been renewed annually.

Apple stated in its response that they would continue to use the company’s resources to keep an edge over “malicious hackers”. In addition, we protect the user from attacks, no matter who is behind stand. Appelbaum had on Monday raised the question during the presentation of the document to the Conference Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, if Apple worked with the NSA. According to previous reports, the NSA revelation also took smartphones with Android and BlackBerry software targeted.

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