Have RIM, Nokia & Apple provided Indian Military with backdoor access to cellular comm?

ZDNet ^ | 1-6-12 | Manan Kakkar

[HangnJudge]

In exchange for mobile presence in India, RIM, Nokia and Apple have allegedly provided backdoor access for the Indian intelligence to spy on communication.

On January 6th reports of Symantec (makers of Norton Anitvirus) being hacked surfaced. The group of hackers behind the attack were from India.

[HangnJudge]

Also on SlashDot
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/069204/leaked-memo-says-
Various Mobile Phone Providers have been quietly giving backdoor access to communications for years.

[HangnJudge]

Paging Swordmaker,
I do not know our resident RIM and Nokia experts...

[HangnJudge]

Similar issues...
Carrier IQ, Echelon, Bluecoat, and Amesys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence)

http://reflets.info/bluecoats-role-in-syrian-censorship-and-nationwide-monitoring-system/

http://vipphonecell.com/cell-phones/wikileaks-files-expose-surveillance-industrial-complex/

[moovova]

We're are of very gladness to be hacking of your comm services. How are we to be of excellent hacking assistance for you today.

[HangnJudge]

We're are of very gladness to be hacking of your comm services.

Yup, and used to gladness by our friends in Syria, Libya,
and a country near you.
I suspect a lot of people have died because of intercepted communications in these countries, perhaps Egypt,
perhaps Iran and Russia

[James C. Bennett]

Wasn’t +256 bit encryption restricted in the US for communication services because the NSA would have to invest in computational power of several orders higher magnitude, to be able to crack the encryption?

[HangnJudge]

Wasn’t +256 bit encryption restricted?

Yup, no text encryption software (on the iPhone) with better than AES 256-bit. Two examples of encrypting apps...

http://stevejensen.dk/apps/

Text Encrypter is a unique encryption app that lets you encrypt and decrypt any text. It is designed to use AES 256-bit encryption algorithm with Base64 character encoding scheme.

http://spbgraphics.com/me.html

Message Encrypter

[Swordmaker]

Someone is surprised that government security agencies have backdoors into computers and telecommunications devices—Didn't the Red Chinese REQUIRE Microsoft to provide ALL of the source code of Windows to them? Yup, sure did! PING!

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