General Technical discussion: NSA backdoor/jailbreak and comparable root access methods

[Patrick J]

Not a political or religious discussion, nor one of Social Issues.

Specifically interested in theorising about similarities between our current jailbreak method and the NSAs method.

As mentioned in sources, they require physical access to the devices via rerouted shipping, and no over the air exploit yet.

I suppose they are getting root access through some exploit in iOS and installing some proprietary tools.


Link to Thread discussion Political side of this
Spiegel
CultofMac

 

[Patrick J]

Apparently they can push and pull files, hot mic, camera, through a "Software Implant" called DROPOUTJEEP, which communicates with NSA servers.

 

[Carlanga]

They prob just bought i0nic jb, injection vectors, etc or from any other "security" firm that works with iOS devices.

 

[Patrick J]

They prob just bought i0nic jb, injection vectors, etc or from any other "security" firm that works with iOS devices.

So it is a given that at any number of time, there are multiple vectors in iOS7. Now it makes sense that Apple fixes up and holes as fast as they can.

Maybe they could invest some of that stash in buying these exploits from companies, and fixing them?

 

[oplix]

Technical discussion: NSA backdoor/jailbreak and comparable root access methods

If they are hacking iphones on a large scale it is guaranteed to be carrier and/or apple server hacking which is out of your hands. There is zero chance that it is being done locally on anyone's phone outside of actual "person of interest" scenarios where they might use some limited resources to intercept and install malware on physical devices.