Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone
by gte910h on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @09:55PM
(#6993945)
As apple has few phones with large quantities of users, I am not surprised. I think you'll find similar penetration levels for any phone with lots of users
It's a resources/efficacy decision on the part of the NSA for targeting.
It's the same reason there were "no" mac viruses for many years: there were far more windows users to target.
Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone
by droopybuns on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @10:52PM
(#6994051)
Further add context:
Charlie Miller (that apple 0day guy) is ex NSA. In 2009 or so, he made huge waves with his iphone hacks.
I also find it appaling how widely revered charlie is. In this context, he is clearly an example of the kind of hacker we should be fucking shaming.
No more free bugs finds its logical conclusion. 0xcharlie: NSA stooge.
He based this assertion on an NSA slide that said 100% of iPhones could be tapped. In the rest of the talk there was frequent mention (in bulletpoints or even more interestingly graphs) of efficacy rates, and as I recall most were between 50-80 percent. Apple was the only slide cited with 100% which is why this was noteworthy.