{"id":28788,"date":"2015-01-25T06:47:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T11:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/edward-snowden-says-secret-apple-spyware-is-the-reason-he.php"},"modified":"2015-01-25T06:47:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T11:47:59","slug":"edward-snowden-says-secret-apple-spyware-is-the-reason-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/edward-snowden-says-secret-apple-spyware-is-the-reason-he.php","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden says secret Apple spyware is the reason he …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edward Snowden says secret Apple spyware is the reason he wont use an iPhone <\/p>\n

IsApples wildly popular iPhone series hiding spyware that can collect information about users without their knowledge. As thoroughly as developers have dug through Apples iOS code over the past seven and a half years, one would think functionality like that would have been unearthed by now. According to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, however, iPhones are capable of activating special software behind the scenes that collects information about users, who are completely oblivious to the fact that their phones are gatheringthis sensitive data. <\/p>\n

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Edward Snowdens lawyer Anatoly Kucherena recently spoke with Russian news agencyRIA Novosti, and their conversation spanned several topics. As Russian news site Sputnik noted, however, the iPhone was among the topics that were discussed, andKucherenas comments were quite interesting, to say the least. <\/p>\n

Edward never uses an iPhone; hes got a simple phone,Kucherenasaid. The iPhone has special software that can activate itself without the owner having to press a button and gather information about him; thats why on security grounds he refused to have this phone. <\/p>\n

Edward Snowden says secret Apple spyware is the reason he wont use an iPhone <\/p>\n

Does Snowden know something we dont? The notorious whistleblower certainly has access to plenty of spy agency documents, and recently published fileshe stole from the NSA revealed thatBritish agency GCHQ indeed uses Apples iPhone UDID system to track users. <\/p>\n

We havent seen anything new in the Snowden documents that suggests Apple itself has secret software on its iPhones that collect personal data without users knowledge, however, so it will be interesting to see ifKucherena or Snowden himself will elaborate on these comments in the coming days. <\/p>\n

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