News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on iCloud Uploads Local Data Outside of iCloud Drive. Parent comment

Re:iCloud Uploads Local Data Outside of iCloud Drive by flatdeviant on Sunday October 26, 2014 @05:29PM (#8512524)
Nope. PRISM has do to with "direct access" to Apple's servers. This is according to NSA's own documents, and Apple may either be aware and forced by law to lie (Yahoo-style [0]) or unaware of this (i.e. they got hacked by NSA). Nothing to do with SSL being broken, especially as iCloud didn't run on Apple software but on Azure and AWS back then[1], and therefore iCloud wasn't itself vulnerable to goto fail.

[0]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-the-government-could-have...

[1]: see iOS security white paper from Feb 2014, iCloud was the same back in 2012.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:iCloud Uploads Local Data Outside of iCloud Drive by snowwrestler on Monday October 27, 2014 @12:46AM (#8513891)
"Direct access" came from a Washington Post story and it has since been walked back. PRISM is a program operated by the FBI, through which they make FISA court requests of data companies (like Apple) and then share the results with the NSA.
[ Parent | on HN ]