Sep 8. 2013 by Jasper Bakker
Sep 8. 2013 by Jasper Bakker
News – The NSA may by data users on iPhones, Androids and BlackBerry devices, including address books, text messages, notes, and location information. This is a leaked document from the U.S. intelligence.
top secret internal NSA document into the hands of the German magazine Der Spiegel, which now publishes. The user data of all major mobile platforms are accessible to the intelligence that is widely Internet bleeds and thereby also know basic security to crack.
Locally stored, complete with location logs
for NSA insightful user data stored locally include address books, SMS messaging, notes and logs of the locations where a user with his or her smartphone has been. Zoal About the latter, Apple has fallen into disrepute in 2010 and 2011. While the iPhone maker that uses location data anonymous, anonymity is not an issue on the device itself.
The leaked documents claim NSA just access to smartphones themselves, and which user data is linked. directly to each other It is not clear exactly how the U.S. intelligence comes with the devices. In one case there is mention of access to the computer users sync their iPhone. The user data of the mobile device is then directed at the PC or Mac. The NSA has several scripts, at least 38 pieces, which the iPhone can harvest data.
Even BlackBerry’s cracked
government organization has separate groups for each of the specific mobile operating systems. They focus on getting access to the user data on the major smartphone platforms. It is, according to the leaked documents was a period late 2009 which BlackBerry devices were not equally accessible.
Possibly that was related to the commissioning by RIM (BlackBerry now called) of another method for data compression. The earlier it claimed access to text messaging on BlackBerrys is restored in March 2010. This is stated in a document of the British NSA counterpart GCHQ, who also works a lot with the American service.
The internal paperwork, the intelligence services even managed to compromise. BlackBerry-mail system That communications of the Canadian smartphone platform is just known for its security. It is not known how the BlackBerry Mail cracking is committed exactly. The Canadian company denies opposite Der Spiegel that it has made. Backed by his platform According to the documents, the smartphone makers unaware.
Not massively but rather focus
access to user data on the most popular smartphone platforms would not take place on a large scale. The documents Der Spiegel has realized, suggest that no mass surveillance concerns. Instead, the targeted data collection, is in some cases specific to a single smartphone user. Der Spiegel brings Monday with more information out.
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