The iPhone is the most successful product of Apple The American technology company Apple has contradicted reports that the American NSA has unrestricted access to the iPhone. In one received by the AFP news agency on Tuesday e-mail the Group states that Apple has “never cooperated with the NSA, in order to create a back door for one of our products, including the iPhone.” Apple had “no knowledge” of an NSA program that take the technology products of the company to target, the Group writes with an eye to allegations of internet activists Jacob Appelbaum.
Appelbaum had at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress (30c3) in Hamburg reported a Spähprogramm with names DROPOUTJEEP that authorizes the NSA to access various ways on each iPhone. The secret service could thus intercept text messages, see address list, locate iPhones, listen to voice messages and unnoticed activate cameras and microphones of the devices. Appelbaum based his information on, among others, have become public secret documents about the NSA.
Apple emphasized, however, in its statement, the group “constantly working to make our products safer, and we make it easier for our customers to keep their software up to date” work. Apple will do anything to protect its customers from security breaches and preventing hacker attacks.
a weblog or eBay, security expert Graham Cluley designated Appelbaum notes and the documents cited as evidence that the NSA have a larger tool box she may establish against other technology companies and their products, including against “Hewlett-Packard server, Cisco firewalls, routers, and other Huawei “. At the same time Cluley pointed out that the said documents from the year 2008 came. “Let’s hope that Apple has its security software has improved since 2008,” wrote the expert. Otherwise, “we all have a huge problem.”
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