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Apple Strongly Denies Stuffing iPhones And iPads With NSA Backdoors

Paul Cooper | ITProPortal.com | July 24, 2014

Apple has vociferously denied writing surveillance backdoors into iOS, the operating system used on the iPhone and iPad range of devices. The Cupertino CA-based company released a strongly-worded statement denying any collusion with the spying programmes of intelligence agencies like the NSA and GCHQ...

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Forensic Scientist Identifies Suspicious 'Back Doors' Running On Every iOS Device

Jason D. O'Grady | ZD Net | July 21, 2014

During his talk at HOPE/X Jonathan Zdziarski detailed several undocumented services (with names like 'lockdownd,' 'pcapd,' 'mobile.file_relay,' and 'house_arrest') that run in the background on over 600 million iOS devices...

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iPhones Have A Major Security Hole That Apple Installed On Purpose

Zach Wener-Fligner | Quartz | July 22, 2014

If you use an iPhone or iPad, your photos, web history, and GPS logs are vulnerable to theft and surveillance via back-door protocols running on all iOS devices, according forensic scientist Jonathan Zdziarski, better known by the hacker moniker “NerveGas.”...

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