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Re:A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your ... by jellicle on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @10:39PM (#8333392)
So when the NSA's internal Top Secret slides say that Apple was added to the PRISM program as a "provider" in October 2012, that provides "Email, chat, videos, photos, stored data, VOIP, file transfers, video conferencing, logins, online social networking details" to the NSA, how then should we reconcile these statements?

Is the NSA lying in its internal slides to itself?

Is Tim Cook lying in his statement to the external world?

Is Tim Cook splitting hairs in some fashion? For instance, is he defining "backdoor" to mean "illegal backdoor", which therefore excludes everything done with the FBI/NSA under a veneer of legality?

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Re:A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your ... by xenadu02 on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @11:48PM (#8333584)
People really want to make something out of this, but it's very simple: the NSA found the "goto fail" bug and exploited it. (We know they also exploited heartbleed.)

We know they have active programs looking for holes in open source code and fuzzing commercial services looking for vulnerabilities. How is that so hard to believe?

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Re:A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your ... by wfunction on Thursday September 18, 2014 @12:42AM (#8333720)
> We know they also exploited heartbleed.

Do you have links that show this is true?

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Re:A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your ... by snowwrestler on Thursday September 18, 2014 @12:24AM (#8333674)
Based on the public reporting, PRISM collects data via FISA-authorized requests to companies. So Apple is probably covering it in their short paragraph about "National Security Orders from the U.S. government."

https://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-request...

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Re:A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your ... by wfunction on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @10:46PM (#8333410)
Maybe it was a frontdoor to their products/services instead of a backdoor. (Only half joking.)
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Re:A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your ... by sigzero on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @11:09PM (#8333474)
I think you are way over thinking it. The NSA's internal slides said nothing about Apple helping the NSA at all.

I read these statements just a Mr. Cook laid them out.

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