Is Apple’s wildly popular iPhone series hiding spyware that can collect information about users without their knowledge? As thoroughly as developers have dug through Apple’s iOS code over the past seven and a half years, one would think functionality like that would have been unearthed by now. According to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, however, iPhones are capable of activating “special software” behind the scenes that collects information about users, who are completely oblivious to the fact that their phones are gathering this sensitive data.
Edward Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena recently spoke with Russian news agency RIA Novosti, and their conversation spanned several topics. As Russian news site Sputnik noted, however, the iPhone was among the topics that were discussed, and Kucherena’s comments were quite interesting, to say the least.
“Edward never uses an iPhone; he’s got a simple phone,”Kucherena said. “The iPhone has special software that can activate itself without the owner having to press a button and gather information about him; that’s why on security grounds he refused to have this phone.”
So, it's not even Snowden saying this, but his Russian lawyer, to the Russian press, because "special software." What proof? Well, Snowden says so. It must be true.
It's about ethics in tech journalism or something.
Surely this isn't Putin causing trouble again, going after what has become the symbol of US consumer technical innovation and success, right?
Be like Ed, guys. Ed would never use an iPhone. You want to be like Ed, don't you, American?
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