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Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone by sigzero on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @08:24AM (#6990311)
No, the article didn't imply that.

"Here’s a problem: I don’t really believe that Apple didn’t help them."

That is a bullshit statement. It is pure speculation without a SHRED of facts to back it up.

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Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone by Touche on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @08:32AM (#6990336)
> No, the article didn't imply that.

There's a whole paragraph about that. You quoted part of it. It's not a minor point of the article. There's no smoking gun but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be discussed.

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Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone by Zigurd on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @11:17AM (#6991217)
There are many shades of gray in manufacturers helping the NSA to hack their products: from outright creating back doors, to using gimpy RNGs, to revealing bugs to the NSA before otherwise disclosing them, to using peripherals with back doors. Deniability and cover stories are part and parcel with such work. It is naive to claim it simply isn't happening.
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