This is spin. These devices are being bugged at the factory! When you open it you get the bugged version. I’m sure the Chinese do this as well since that’s where many electronics are made and that’s how they work.
This doesn’t just impact apple but it does impact apple and there is no spin that can nullify that.
That is a lie, for-q-clinton. Do you really think that Apple does not check the firmware on a random sampling of iPhone and iPads that leave the factory? Of course they do. They'd be criminally remise if they did not. There have been Android phones where MALWARE has been FACTORY INSTALLED and not caught because of poor quality control. . . and Apple has world class quality control of its products. Firmware is easy to check against a standard.
Can you imagine the impact this would have on the value of Apple as a company if it were found that these compromised firmware were installed at the factory??? It would be a fire sale for AAPL on the stock exchanges around the world as investors dumped AAPL. . . and the class action attorneys would be lining up clients in droves.
"While CIA assets are sometimes used to physically infect systems in the custody of a target it is likely that many CIA physical access attacks have infected the targeted organization’s supply chain including by interdicting mail orders and other shipments (opening, infecting, and resending) leaving the United States or otherwise."
The SPIN here is what YOU posted. . . which is completely contrary to the claims in the article which says the spyware has to be installed by interception of the devices in transit to the targeted individual or organization. READ FOR COMPREHENSION, for-q-clinton.