Snowden docs show CIA's attempts to hack Apple devices<article>
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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.</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>
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Snowden docs show CIA's attempts to hack Apple devices
