NSA CAN GAIN COMPLETE ACCESS TO IPHONES, BUT APPLE DENIES IT HELPED INSTALL SPYWARE.
The National Security Agency can intercept the world’s Internet communications, tap Google’s and Yahoo’s corporate networks, collect revealing data on every phone call in America, and covertly divert new PC shipments to install monitoring software. And now, as newly revealed NSA documents show, we know it can take complete control over virtually anyone’s AppleiPhone.
First revealed by security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine, the NSA installs a piece of spyware called DROPOUTJEEP...
According to the leaked document on DROPOUTJEEP from 2008 (below), the NSA installed this software through “close access methods” – meaning they needed physical access to the device, which was likely achieved by rerouting shipments of iPhones purchased by targeted customers.
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