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China Fears iPhone Is "Threat To National Security"
With threats and promises over cyber-crimes fleeting back and forth between the US and China, it appears - through the 'back-channel' of the nation's state broadcaster CCTV - China has stepped it up once again. As AFP reports, China has accused US technology giant Apple of threatening national security through its iPhone's ability to track and time-stamp a user's location. While not exactly a 'new feature' of the phones, the timing of China's public lambasting reflects the escalating mutual distrust between the US and China over the extent of cyber-espionage.
As AFP reports, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has accused US technology giant Apple of threatening national security through its iPhone's ability to track and time-stamp a user's location.
The "frequent locations" function, which can be switched on or off by users, could be used to gather "extremely sensitive data", and even state secrets, said Ma Ding, director of the Institute for Security of the Internet at People's Public Security University in Beijing.
The tool gathers information about the areas a user visits most often, partly to improve travel advice. In an interview broadcast Friday, Ma gave the example of a journalist being tracked by the software as a demonstration of her fears over privacy.
"One can deduce places he visited, the sites where he conducted interviews, and you can even see the topics which he is working on: political and economic," she said.
The frequent locations function is available on iOS 7, the operating system used by the current generation of iPhones released in September 2013.
We are a little surprised at the ignorance of this feature - which suggests the timing of the public broadcast is much more for propaganda purposes than actual fear of espionage...
"CCTV has only just discovered this?" said one incredulous Chinese microblogger.
The dispute is not the first time Apple has been embroiled in controversy in China, where its products are growing in popularity in a marketplace dominated by smartphones running Google's Android operating system.
Apple lost a lawsuit against a Chinese state regulator over patent rights to voice recognition software such as the iPhone's "Siri" just this week.
In March 2013 the Californian company was notably the target of criticism orchestrated by the Chinese media on behalf of consumers, who were critical of poor after-sales service.
And in 2012 the US firm paid $60 million to settle a dispute with another Chinese firm over the iPad trademark.
The privacy scare also reflects mutual distrust between the US and China after a series of allegations from both sides on the extent of cyber-espionage.
Leaks by former US government contractor Edward Snowden have alleged widespread US snooping on China, and this month it was reported Chinese hackers had penetrated computer networks containing personal information on US federal employees.
Apple did not immediately respond when contacted by AFP for comment.
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And no KFC for you as well
I hope Apple goes broke.
And that statist bitch Microsoft too.
No shit. The stuff's made in China. Whaddya expect these days?
A new Moscow embassy with no bugs in the walls?
Pot calls Kettle black.....
Its stuff like this that keeps me laughing.......
""CCTV has only just discovered this?" said one incredulous Chinese microblogger."
Translation: Foxcon wants 5% of profit rather than 3%, and found a set of the 'People's Civil Servants' more effective at banging the bongos to apply pressure.
Keynsian bonus: aforementioned revolutionary champions will be shopping for Manhattan apartments with solid gold bidets shortly.
This is not new paradigm. China is making iPhone and is national security risk, while USSA is making of Hellfire missile and Stinger rocket which is fire at USSA aircraft.
Apples and oranges.
The US gets a piece of the action on both Stingers and aircraft. And more importantly, the right congress critters get a piece of the action on both Stingers and aircraft. Ergo...no problem, nothing to see here, everyboy move along..
Once the right Chinaman gets his cut on the iPhone action, the problem (lack of cut) will be solved there too.
"Apple and MIC"
There, Boris is fix for you!
Apple will only go broke if America goes bust. Guesswork: iPhones and Apple computers come with remote turn on built-in "kill" switches that can permanently shut down the devices, rendering them useless for anything but emitting a tracking beacon. Steve Jobs was a government lackey who cashed in illegally backdated stock options with impunity because he knew he had protection from the White House, payback for Jobs' selling iPhones with built in spyware. That NSA program to intercept laptop computers being shipped to customers only applied to non-Apple products. Apple gear was already rigged with on/off keystoke recorders and sigint software designed by the NSA tech spooks.
Ha ha! Silicon Valley makes O-NSA spyware shit for retards. Fewer and fewer will want their crap. IBM, Apple, Cisco, Microshaft, Oracle, Facebook, Twitter and the list goes on.
Silicon Valley voted for this. F them. I hope they ***king starve.
But let's look at things in perspective: are Android products safe(r)? Is ANY hardware produced in China safe and free of build in back doors, virusses and spy software?
Don't misunderstand me, Im' definitely very sceptical of the NSA, but are the Chinese (hint: driving with tanks over their own citizens) suddenly saints?
It's okay, Apple promised that data is encrypted and stored locally and they would never touch or access it...
In other spying news in the land of the free:
Whistleblower: NSA stores 80% of all phone calls, not just metadata - full audioAt least 80 percent of all audio calls are gathered and stored by the NSA, whistleblower William Binney has revealed. The former code-breaker says the spy agency’s ultimate aim is no less than total population control.
The National Security Agency lies about what it stores, said William Binney, one of the highest profile whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA, at a conference in London organized by the Center for Investigative Journalism on July 5. Binney left the agency shortly after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center because he was disgusted at the organizations move towards public surveillance.
“At least 80 percent of fiber-optic cables globally go via the US,” Binney said. “This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80 percent of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.”
http://rt.com/news/172284-nsa-stores-calls-audio/
Obama administration drops investigation into CIA spying on US SenateThe US Department of Justice announced Thursday that it would not investigate charges that the CIA had spied on members of the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee, whitewashing the brazenly illegal actions of the US intelligence apparatus. “The department carefully reviewed the matters referred to us and did not find sufficient evidence to warrant a criminal investigation,” read the Justice Department statement.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/12/cias-j12.html
Expect to see countries put down fiber optic systems that bypass the USA, use less US products, and marginalize the dollar. This will all translate to a heck of an economic downfall. Tech/software was one of our last standing industries and with the NSA we managed to kill it just like we did Detroit etc
The west is trying really hard to start a conventional war in Europe to distract and justify the hard times. The Russians are not buying into it. They are like a boa constrictor. They will slowly strangle the dollar and thus neuter the imperial empire of the dollar.
Look, crap is going to get really bad in this country in a few years. Be prepared to ensure your safety and that of your family.
I mean the west is getting mighty desperate...
http://rt.com/news/172228-farnborough-russian-delegation-visa/
F-you UK you are a floating turd in the Atlantic Ocean that will eventually sink. Seriously the UK has been dying a slow death these past few decades can't wait to see Scotland walk away from the loser ex empire.
The west is trying really hard to start a conventional war in Europe to distract and justify the hard times.
On the face of it I agree, but we know Obama reads teleprompters (written by WHO?). We know in 2003, Stephen Harper and Australian Prime Minister John Howard deliver largely identical speeches urging their nations to join George W. Bush's Coalition of the Willing to go to war with Iraq... written by WHO?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtd7o9x5uN0
We know that false flags have been used in the last century to provoke ordinary people into wars they did not part-take in:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/governments-around-world-admit-ca...
(do note the comments and links from poster: warisaracketsmedlybutler in this article)
We also know that the development of the BRICS bank has been tolerated therefore its endorsed!
http://thebricspost.com/shanghai-to-host-brics-bank-putin-aide/#.U8Cg47HDP88So tell me straight; Brazil, India, China and Russia are each so independent they can set up an alternative to the World Bank and the IMF and entertain the idea of new members?
Meanwhile Russia wants Brazil on the UN Security Council... so I guess "they" do not need a new UN, the current Rockefeller UN will do just fine.
http://thebricspost.com/brics-clout-drawing-membership-bids-putin/#.U8CjhbHDP88 Meanwhile who is India selling their gold to? Bank of England of course! So just how independent is this parallel BRICS Central Bank? Pure theatre.http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-03/india%E2%80%99s-central-bank-sell-gold-market-exchange-gold-bank-england
Lets note who coined the term BRICS yes the criminal Goldman Sachs (yes another Aussie MPs Malcom Turnbull's master, we got Roths and Deutsche among other covered)http://southasia.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/07/11/move_over_imf_brics_bank_aims_to_rewrite_the_rules_of_development
The term "BRIC" was coined in 2001, essentially as a marketing term for Goldman Sachs, and the group has long been derided for its lack of a coherent stance on major economic and political issues. But the establishment of the development bank, a historic challenge to the Western-dominated international system, shows the five emerging economies are taking their partnership seriously. The accomplishment appears that much more significant when viewed against the backdrop of the United States' continued failure to endorse IMF reforms.
Hence the real reason for Obama to veto IMF changes in April, he's working towards the "fake" parallel banking system that will help the demise of the USD and which just happens to be endorsed by the World Bank therefore endorsed by the criminal cabal.
http://www.trademarkea.com/analysts-caution-eac-on-brics-bank/
He notes that Brics is a member of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and therefore its initiatives would not make a huge difference because they are all governed by the world’s financial system and must, therefore, conform to the rules.
World Bank communication officer Loy Nabeta says the bank welcomes the establishment of a Brics development bank and is ready to work closely with it to end poverty and build shared prosperity throughout the developing world....“We anticipate that the new Brics bank will be an invaluable partner in this effort. Clearly, the Brics countries have a key role to play in helping promote global growth,” she said.
Nice to note that Australia's neighbours are jumping aboard: Indonesia and Malaysia joined the BRICS alliance.
Finally recall the 7 countries in 5 years war memo - they just happened to target countries with central banks not cooperating with or controlled by the Rothschilds. In fact any nation is a war target, its not all about oil:http://www.globalresearch.ca/what-will-happen-to-the-global-economy-if-brics-announce-launch-of-new-currency-bricso/5354295
However, there is one reason for military intervention that is rarely discussed, even in the alternative media, in this context – the goal of total domination by the private central banking system. http://www.activistpost.com/2012/09/state-owned-central-banks-are-real.html
In closing the BRICS bank has been years in the making and while we're bombing the hell out small independent nations with independent banking systems, we're not doing the same to the BRICS??? Why? Because a new monetary system is being guided in by the criminal cabal, expect a few false flags to guide us silly Australians, Americans etc into the new system .... war is always the mechanism for a monetary system change and we know this one is intended to crush western nations and pivot the world to the east (follow the gold).
It walks and it quacks like a duck... its a set up for manufactured war to misdirect blame for the collapse of the USD and heinous de-population and colonial style control of all.
I'm a Corgi with a Crown - my Queenie will prosper furthermore if your let her inbred brethren run this farce on us all.
(Cosmos, like your post just adding my 2 cents worth FWIW)
Eater, fascinating compilation of links. But you give the Banksters and their Empire too much credit.
Their rule is based on their banking system with the Federal Reserve Bank and the almighty dollar at its core. The web of central banks, international financial institutions and international courts supports and is enforced by their worldwide web of military bases and alliances, information systems and paid agents, all paid for in dollars. As the dollar and the Fed collapse, along with the dollar backed private central banks, the Mastters of the Empire, to the extent they've concluded it can't be saved (and we see many clues that this is so,) will be reaching for ways to stay on top of the game and dictate the terms of the reset. That doesn't mean they will succeed.
Certainly, in the aftermath of collapse their power to dictate outcomes will be vastly diminished.
Unless, that is, they can get away with playing their Global War card and survive it.
WhyWait wrt I do not think we give enough respect to the linage of the banking cabal and their poisonous spread across the planet. Look into the Ventian Black Nobility, their rule existed long before the FRB which is just a current manifestation they created and now will destroy. I do suspect they are going to play the war card, its their MO and will be used to justify the ushering in of the new system(s) they're lining up.
I don't think so. Maybe 10%.
He's talking about inter-continental cables, and he is more or less correct.
Most of that 80% has got to be 14 yr. old girlz yapping.
Data storage is cheap, plus there is always a way to make use of a nude selfie, even if the 14 yr old girl doesn't grow up to be a Hillary or a Nancy P
At first the cage feels safe and comforting.
Yeah and I thought a tank was pretty darn safe too until I saw one taken out by Molotov cocktails. Yikes.
Miffed;-)
They didn't know this before? A little behind the curve, no?
Currency wars>trade wars> shooting wars.
Late second stage it seems.
They make it, they should know. Even the OS.
And Microsoft wWndows products, Cisco products. Any closed source technology and I don't blame them. A company has no freakin idea what they are running in thier environment if they are not running open source technology. If you cant see the source code you don't know what you have. There will come a time when companies will be sued for running shit in thier environment that they have not reviewed the source code.
And Microsoft wWndows products, Cisco products. Any closed source technology and I don't blame them. A company has no freakin idea what they are running in thier environment if they are not running open source technology. If you cant see the source code you don't know what you have. There will come a time when companies will be sued for running shit in thier environment that they have not reviewed the source code.
Thank you for all the technology and investments. We no longer wish to share our business with you buttmunchkins. No you cannot sell your eh our IP in our markets...
But they will keep manufacturing it (which allows them to backdoor the iphones for their own purposes).
Pot meet kettle.
The modern mobile phone is probably one the biggest mass surveillance advancements to ever happen.
No wonder the likes of the NSA need ever increasing processing and storage requirements.
All China has to do is release a reasonably featured cell phone that is actually secure - there will be plenty of buyers.
No there wont be lots of buyers because it will be banned by every country on the planet.
Xiaomi seems to be the ticket. Android based, but they strip all the google crap out of it. Absolutely love mine. Don't like the MIUI OS? You can flash anything else you want over it.
http://aplus.com/a/iphone-tricks-you-didnt-know
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4. Find out which planes are flying overheadJust ask her: “What flights are above me?” Or you can be even more blunt and just say, “Planes overhead.” Boom! She’ll bring up a list that shows all the flights above you at that moment. Why you would ever need this I have no idea, but it's pretty rad anyway.
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I think I might have an idea why someone might need this besides you.
I blame google for turning iphones into obvious junk
Yawn. NSA aside, this does nothing to the stock. New highs soon. That's the kind of market environment we're in now.
There's Chinese left in China? I thought they were all in Cali by now.
It seems that the officially hated, through the concerted slagging from day one of BB10, Blackberry still has the best chance of some decent encryption if the phone is set up correctly.
I bought Z10 just because of this and lawd, I have nothing to hide.
And in the meantime the UK rushes in new spying rules for its serfs.
Not only does .gov know where you be but also what you see, hear and say with IPhone, a good enough reason not to have one, not for national security, for your own security.
Find a company which will REFUSE to honor ANY government requests for ANY reason, and you've got yourself a winner. Or even better yet, a company which acts only as a common carrier and is in no position to even access anything (and still refuses to comply).
You won't find these sorts of companies, because the mentality has not shifted sufficiently enough to recognize the US legal system as the sham it is. Secret kangaroo courts, star chambers, etc. It's a complete and total joke with zero legitimate authority. However, most still fear it and will gladly comply and go along with it. That shift in mentality is something that is greatly feared by the system. Like tinkerbell, if you stop clapping, it dies and goes away. It's all just a bunch of empty and corrupt words muttered and written down by corrupt politicians who have zero legitimate authority. Reinforced by the daily propaganda of the media bubbleworld to ensure sheepish compliance by the unwashed masses.
In light of the STINGRAY devices, you would *think* that maybe, perhaps, there would be apps out there to map out cells and force connections to whitelisted ones. Nope, not a single thing out there. Afterall, such a thing would interfere with law enforcement and no one wants to do that (even though they are all corrupt pigs who need to lined up and gutted).
Mobile phone is unnecessary junk that undermines DNA and immune system, promotes autism, shortens attention span, deteriorates hearing, causes an acoustic neuroma (a rare brain tumour)... Alzheimer’s, strokes, canscer, impotence..., kills healthy social life and creates illusion that if you don't have it, you might miss the kind of *call* that can change your life.
You forgot to add...and is cool fun to play with, trumped your death and destruction, cool fun always wins out over death.
FEAR HUAWEI.....
without the help of chineese state owned telecom iPhone is just a brick.
so dear chineese, it is in your hands to do something about it.
LOL, how many Chinese officials carry iPhones? How easy it would be for the US goons to take you out.