Report: CIA Has Spent Years Trying to Hack iPads, iPhones
The CIA has been trying for years to crack iOS security, according to a new information provided by Edward Snowden. The attempts have been the focal point of multiple yearly CIA conferences called "The Jamboree," the report said.
Researchers claimed they had discovered a mean by which Xcode could be manipulated to allow devices to be infected. "The Intelligence Community (IC) is highly dependent on a very small number of security flaws, many of which are public, which Apple eventually patches," the researchers noted in the abstract for a 2011 presentation at the Jamboree.
Another leaked presentation explained the possible hardware hacks for Apple devices.
According to the leaked documents, the Jamboree events go back to 2006, just before the iPhone was launched.
"I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services," Apple CEO Tim Cook said last September, when Apple's new privacy policy was announced.
"We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will. None of us should accept that the government or a company or anybody should have access to all of our private information. This is a basic human right. We all have a right to privacy. We shouldn't give it up. We shouldn't give in to scare-mongering."
