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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2014.Apple iPhones allow extraction of deep personal data, researcher finds
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gogogo
Is anyone surprised at this?
ReformedBasher
The way these companies want to impede their users at every turn, and then ask them to sell their soul to use their "services" really gets on my goat sometimes (not a real goat, just an imagined one).
Won an X-Box overseas. Couldn't use it back home without buying some (illegal) "chip". Thanks for the oddly shaped anchor/doorstop Micro$oft.
Have several iBooks on my iPhone that I cannot read on my iPad. Those books are my property as I paid for them. How about a refund Apple? And why am I limited to the number of PCs I can use with my devices? Your App Store "regionalism" drives me nuts too.
As for Google, I sleep really well at night knowing my credit card info is recorded on your "network". Really. But only because it's been cancelled.
John Galt
iBackdoor? iSpy? iSurprise!
turbotsat
Google does similar. They fired one of their employees a while back, for showing off how much private stuff he knew about various teens. It's not just the NSA!
http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats
ReformedBasher
@turbotsat
Sick stuff. Hope he got some jail time too.
Scrote
Apple would not be allowed to sell their iPhone with encryption in the US if they did not leave a backdoor for NSA snooping.
CGB Spender
Same applies to Android. Let's see what the next iOS will do in this case, with it's new secure data features. Realistically speaking, every average PC is more insecure than that.
LostinNagoya
Bottom line: if you have something to hide, do not use a smartphone. No matter what brand.
Thunderbird2
Does this only apply to unlocked iphones?
danalawton1@yahoo.com
It says "Apple Employees" could extract such data... from day one I figured they might access to my "personal data". Especially since you can "back up" your phone data using their system. Nothing at this point is totally safe. I trust the employees at Apple to keep my information confidential. They're well paid and it is a great company.
turbotsat
Read through the article and responses, etc., and don't see it being "thoroughly debunked" at all. The 'debunking' author is citing "researchers" she doesn't name or link to. Her claims seem wrong or exaggerated.
When she says "People were told to essentially freak out over iPhones allowing people who know the passcode and pairing information to use the device.People were told to essentially freak out over iPhones allowing people who know the passcode and pairing information to use the device.", she's ignoring that the security footprint of an iPhone, due to all this "diagnostic" info, now includes every device that was ever paired to that iPhone, however weak the security on those devices is.
Zdiarski's response: http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=3506
More details: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-surveillance-zdziarski,news-19189.html
DockSee
Total nonsense. This story was already thoroughly debunked before the weekend.
http://www.zdnet.com/the-apple-backdoor-that-wasnt-7000031781/