Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone Backdoors

Re:Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone ... by streetnigga on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @01:59PM (#6992177)

This is like RSA saying they had no secret contract to create a crypto backdoor. Really finely phrased, doesn't actually say much.

Apple most likely wouldn't work directly with the NSA but with an entity like the FBI. The contract wouldn't be with the FBI but with a company also contracted out to do some of the work like Booz Allen Hamilton.

I'm started to wonder who "we" actually means in these responses as well. Is this the stock-holder we, the CEO we, or we as in employees of Apple as a whole. I suspect it is not the latter one.

We still don't know the point of entry for this malware and I have no more reason to suspect it is done by the shipping carriers than I have reason suspect the hardware makers themselves.

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Re:Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone ... by mrobot on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @02:46PM (#6992450)

Where are people suspecting the shipping carriers?

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Re:Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone ... by dobbsbob on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @03:01PM (#6992520)

The NSA's recommended guide for creating a secure phone (fishbowl) lists supply chain compromise as a threat. Probably because they themselves manage to infiltrate manufacturing and distribution

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