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Apple Denies Ever Working With The NSA
Yesterday, we broke the story that during the 30th Chaos Communication Congress, it was revealed that according to the NSA (the slide in question) virtually every Apple product can be "backdoored", and that the presenter of the discovery Jacob Applebaum openly asked Apple if it was just its "shitty software" that provided the NSA with this privacy invading loophole, or if it was Apple secretly working in collaboration with the NSA that permitted this betrayal of the iconic company's customers.
Moments ago the WSJ reported that according to Apple, it was just the "shitty software", as the company denied ever working with the NSA.
Apple says it never worked with NSA to create 'backdoor' in products. http://t.co/hNaBnT26jX
— WSJ Breaking News (@WSJbreakingnews) December 31, 2013
Somehow we doubt this will be the end of this particular story, especially since this is an implicit admission that Apple does, indeed, have "backdoors" in its products. Whether invited or not.
Perhaps as a follow up, Apple can also confirm that none of its products permit illegal backdoor access for the NSA or anyone else, especially now that the "implantation" mechanism has been made clear to the entire world?
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i did not have sex with that woman
When is the "software update" to remove the spyware going to be released?
Someone should be able to write an app and make a fortune or make the NSA hit list.
I'm sure thre is another agency that does this for the NSA so that vendors can plausibly deny collaboration.
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Right, Apple corporate didn't.. but certain people within apple were given orders (and gag orders) to install them or face criminal charges. etc. Thats my bet.
Same is probably true with most of the big tech companies.
Plausible Deniability
I've run the idea up the flagpole that the NSA has/had dirt on every corporate person (or at least enough tax leverage to get them to sit at the table) and that these backdoors were negotiated settlements for their misdeeds with Big Bro and his Holding Companies and getting to continue their RobinHood-in-Reverse tax evasions unhampered by wristslaps from the effeminate DoJ, SEC, CFTC, etc ad nauseam
What about CONTRACTORS for the .gov and/or NSA?
Apple-Foxconn... iSlave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jOgRpO5i94
The new blackberry CEO won't last very long. The camel jockey idiot has no mission, other than Foxconn. When asked, What brought you to Blackberry? He fought to form a conherant sentence.
The hits just keep on coming!
Snowden must be giving the NSA conniptions.
Riddle me this Appleholes. Why do you make phones that the battery can't be removed? There really only is one reason to do that since we know there really is no hard off concerning cellphones in general.
LMAO at people that expect privacy while operating a fucking radio device.
If Apple's laptops and phones can be accessd remotly without the user's knowledge, and Apple didn't intend that, then they are the stupidist motherfuckers in all of Christendom.
more likely trash talk- nobody mentions that MS has allowed a back door to the NSA since Windows 98-a nice little hidden .ddl file hidden on the unwipeable sector 27 of the HD
This is what you get for being allowed to keep $100 billion offshore tax free.
Now you know why they had a shit fit over "lockpicking" phones.
Someone might have found this spyware.
Steve Jobs' last words:
"MY PANTS ARE ON FIRE!"
Apple says it only worked with NSA to add 'Lawful Interception' portals in all its products.
Apple had that great Orwellian "1984" commercial. Maybe one of the best ads ever. .... and it has come to this ?
Houston... we have a problem.
And the other thing is...Fuck Bill Clinton and his handlers. That cocksmoker was penniless when he left the WH and is now worth $100MM. The payoffs for is Glass Steagal repeal have kept coming in over the years. Thank you Sandy Weill and Robert Rubin. Where have those sociopaths been lately ?
oh god-subject getting old and boring-you hate APPLE-WE GET IT! admit it-dont issue us your covert opinions like the NSA would do-or does ZH have a backdoor to the NSA?-ya i know ya wouldnt tell us IF YOU DID....FFS ASK MICROSOFT--about back doors, trap doors, to NSA since 1998; personally i think this is organized FUBAR from haters and MS- which aint doing as well as they used to....that is, if youre REALLY concerned about security-and arent just BSing us-
Watch their lips: that just means that they provided code to the NSA and didn't do the (reverse) engineering alongside them.
Gotta love lawyer weasel words.
Sorry to rain on the ME TOO parade, but there's a simple reason most tech companies will not implant a backdoor. Liability! What do you think would happen if some disgruntled Apple engineer armed with the key to the backdoor decided to take revenge for some percieved wrong ?
Information wants to be free, a lesson the NSA has learned the hard way.