Spionage: Apple bestreitet NSA-Hilfe beim Knacken des iPhones | ZEIT ONLINE

Spionage: Apple bestreitet NSA-Hilfe beim Knacken des iPhones | ZEIT ONLINE

Apple denies NSA help in cracking the iPhone

The NSA is said to have tried to use iPhone as a spy tool. The units should record conversations and spy data. Apple claims to have known nothing of it.

 

The U.S. company Apple has experienced claims to be only recently that the American NSA should have tried to work the iPhone for skimming information. The company never knowingly cooperated with the NSA, in order to weaken its own products.

Earlier, the activists had Jacob Appelbaum publishes a document , after which the NSA has designed a "software-implant" for the millions worldwide popular Apple smartphone. This serves to use the iPhone as a kind of informant in your pocket: This might sound recordings made, stolen data and contacts are tapped.

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Apple assured that the Group would "defend our customers against security attacks, regardless of who is behind it."

 

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