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Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone by electic on Monday December 30, 2013 @11:45PM (#6989015)
All the phones are exploited. I doubt it matters.
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Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone by supergauntlet on Monday December 30, 2013 @11:56PM (#6989049)
Really any phone is exploited. When you've got a baseband with direct hardware access that the carrier can connect to there isn't really anything short of fully open hardware that is gonna save you.
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Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone by auctiontheory on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @12:00AM (#6989064)
If (as claimed) the NSA has hacked the major BIOS/firmware as well as encryption, is there such as thing as "fully open hardware" and would it help?
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Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone by zachrose on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @12:38AM (#6989213)
To my knowledge no, there is not. If there was, it would also require approval from the network operator. And if you believe that the network operators are aligned with the intelligence community anyways, you would never expect that approval to happen.
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Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone by swampboy on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @12:05AM (#6989083)
Perhaps, but with a feature phone there's much less for the eavesdroppers to see.
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Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone by marveller on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @09:20AM (#6990523)
Yes, hence the feature phone :), no GPS, no email, no browsing records, etc.
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Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone by parag_c_mehta on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @12:23AM (#6989158)
True but phones with highest market share are more susceptible to the phones with least market share.
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