Snowden does not use iPhone: It has a built-in spyware
Edward Snowden would reveal the ” iFeature ” that no one wants. iPhone would have a spyware integrated that allow governments to track every movement of the user. A ” iFeature ” to allow governments to spy on users of smartphones, and in this case of the iPhone. The smartphone of Apple would be sold with special software features (intentional or the result of a bug?) Activated remotely with which allow monitoring of the activities of a particular user. The novelty comes from some information released by the lawyer of Edward Snowden, the same that more than a year ago had checkmated the NSA and government agencies around the world.
” Edward never uses an iPhone, has a simple cell phone, ” said Anatoly Kucherena in an interview with RIA Novosti, a Russian Media Company. According to reports Tech Times, Snowden’s lawyer also pointed out the reasons for the decision: ” The iPhone has special software that can take steps to gather information without the owner must necessarily push a button; it refuses to use this model for security reasons. ”
It is not clear from the interview, whether Snowden’s lawyer intends spyware directly integrated into the software from Apple itself, or if government services are aware of a flaw which violate the operating system and manages sensitive parts of the same. Apple has repeatedly stated that he had never worked with government agency’s surveillance. The documents published by Snowden remark that the Apple devices were vulnerable to attack from the NSA.
The government agency could access all communications sent or received by the iPhone, with the aim of extorting, under the name of the PRISM project, material’s sensitive user, such as audio, video, images, documents, email and log the connections, in order to track the movements of the devices and possible connections between users. Apple also has never admitted to having guaranteed access to its servers to US government agencies.
In addition, the company says that on iOS 8 the communications system is protected by an encryption system that can not be deciphered even by the engineers who developed it. There is no doubt that Snowden has forced manufacturers of smartphones to take action on the security front and have also sensitized the mass audience on the subject. It is likely that Snowden has documents confirming what was announced today, but currently lacking more precise information in order to establish the importance of the words of Kucherena.
