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Apple Worked With U.S. Government on 'Secret' iPod
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Wouldn't we have been more thrown off if he just didn't release the story at all?
They didnt build anything into our products. They built something into their products. That they used. Where in the article does it say anything about doing anything to any product sold to normal people?
I'm kind of surprised this guy wasn't bound for life to secrecy on this topic. Or at least for another 10-20 years. There are many high-security areas that do allow non-network iPods without cameras where they wouldn't allow most any other device. I could see these devices still being in use to detect radiation during informal visits to installations where a formal investigation wasn't agreed to yet.
At least until today.
At least until today.
It's not a secret backdoor to the device to unlock it. It's simply an extra feature added as Steve Jobs would say.
But amazon also offers a channel for sales of apple equipment. Epic doesn't provide apple a way to earn money in another segment except through their app.
It’s also possible for another option to be true: the government had a secret way to access Apple’s security keys, and Apple is aware of this, but instead of trying to fight a never ending game of cat and mouse, they started engineering their systems and products so that not even they have the keys and the only way to access something is either by obtaining passwords from a device’s owner, or through tedious brute force.
This is, probably, the most likely “best case” scenario from a privacy standpoint.
As a TS SCI clearance holder, this is a sad leak that damages national security. Regarding the story itself, there's a distinction for me between helping our country with an extremely narrow, clandestine project vs. compromising hundreds of millions of users's privacy by giving law enforcement backdoors into iPhones. So I don't blame Apple for participating in this, but I wish I wasn't seeing this story.
thats only thing they could say... real thing is that huawei is banned for other reasons, such as low price etc...
$23B yearly for nuclear weapons...my god...
Lets assume the software has a backdoor, can security researchers discover it?
I imagine if your device is locked with a password, there might be a single 22 character passwords that can unlock any device out there, like a skeleton key of some sort. How can you discover that?
Lets assume the software has a backdoor, can security researchers discover it?
I imagine if your device is locked with a password, there might be a single 22 character passwords that can unlock any device out there, like a skeleton key of some sort. How can you discover that?
Wow, you do know that you’re not suppose to advertise your security clearance like this don’t you? It makes you a potential target. You should go back and read your security manual. Pathetic.
I’ve seen a modified iPhone 4/4s that had no camera. The back glass was just solid black. Everyone at that facility had one.
Not sure what they did about the front camera tho.
Apples (no pun intended) and Oranges. This was not a backdoor for collecting user data.
You don't know if this project was actually classified. It's doubtful because if it was everyone involved would have to have clearance, including the Apple guys, and they'd understand what that meant.
Since nothing was written down they can talk about it. It's just some random thing that may or may not have happened.
My guess it was a iPod to catch Chinese agents that were stealing secrets at the time from are programs. You swap out their iPod for your iPod it goes back to China and unleashes a tracking or virus package or reports back to the NSA that this person is stealing top secret information. Thanks china party for stealing are secrets and using it against us, oh and thanks for the human viruses also.
How many of you know you can use the camera on an iphone or such as a radiation detector?