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Re: [Cryptography] Der Spiegel: "NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Naggs)
Sun Sep 8 19:58:13 2013
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From: Tony Naggs <tonynaggs@gmail.com>
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The Spiegel article perhaps contains a key to this capability:
"In the internal documents, experts boast about successful access to
iPhone data in instances where the NSA is able to infiltrate the
computer a person uses to sync their iPhone."
I have not seen security measures such as requiring a password from
the connected computer to a phone in order to access data such as
contact lists, SMS history, ..
This is probably done simply in order to provide maximum convenience
to end users.
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