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Title: Snowden docs show CIA's attempts to hack Apple devices Post by: HCK on March 12, 2015, 09:00:18 am Snowden docs show CIA's attempts to hack Apple devices
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Researchers sponsored by the U.S. government have reportedly tried to defeat the encryption and security of Apple devices for years.</p><p> Several presentations given between 2010 and 2012 at a conference sponsored by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency described attempts to decrypt the firmware in Apple mobile devices or to backdoor Mac OS X and iOS applications by poisoning developer tools.</p><p> Abstracts of the secret presentations were among the documents leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to journalists and were published Tuesday by The Intercept (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-apples-secrets/).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2895112/snowden-docs-show-cias-attempts-to-hack-apple-devices.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Snowden docs show CIA's attempts to hack Apple devices (http://www.macworld.com/article/2895112/snowden-docs-show-cias-attempts-to-hack-apple-devices.html#tk.rss_all) |