[Jonty30]

Bye bye Apple.

[Whenifhow]

Full Title
NSA has complete control of your iPhone, can activate your microphone and camera without you knowing

Informative video on the page relating to leaked documents (NSA)
30c3: To Protect And Infect, Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0w36GAyZIA

[Paladin2]

Well komrade, after all you have nothing to hide, right?

[tgusa]

If NSA can do it, so can anyone.

[rarestia]

Sadly this won’t do much to Apple in the long term. As an owner of an iPhone and an iPad, I’ve turned off every last “convenience” tool and still don’t feel completely secure/private.

The wife and I will definitely be going the Droid route next time around.

[Falcon4.0]

The NSA is looking for "Terrorist" in the population the same way the TSA is looking for terrorist in the airports.
And that is that, we are "ALL" suspects!

[PowderMonkey]

It doesn't know squat about two Mohammedan mopes using pressure cookers for IEDs, or guns being trafficked into Mexico by the ATF, or ANYTHING about what happened in Benghazi, but knows all about every last round of .22 lr you purchased at Academy Sports or on line, and everything you ever posted on FR.

[CIB-173RDABN]

I have a cheap $10 a month phone I carry for calling 911 if I trip and fall while walking. If they can turn it on and use the camera more power to them since I have not been able to figure that out.

When I do carry it, it is off and in my pocket. So if they want to listen to an old man huffing and puffin while walking and watch the inside of a pocket, well, it is still wrong.

I wonder how those that work for the NSA can sleep at night knowing they have turned traitor to the American people, violating constitutional protection in the name of protecting us.

Shame on them, and shame on us for allowing it.

[WayneS]

I sure hope they don’t screw up my progress in the Simpson’s “Tapped Out” game...

[Yo-Yo]

Everybody is attacking Apple, but if you read the story, the NSA developed a spyware ap for the iPhone, it’s not that Apple gave the NSA a back door. And if you read the article, they’ve developed apps for other phones, and also have developed modified phones to swap out with the targeted person’s original phone.

You want to be secure? Stop using all mobile devices.

[gaijin]

Yeah, I’m with the Tea Party - so what? Why ya grabbin my arms...?

WHADDYA MEAN, I HAVE KIDDIE PORN ON MY PHONE....?

[MrEdd]

I bet they cant remove the protective skin that covers the camera lens.

[King Moonracer]

I wonder how many people have exceeded their data limits Or minutes and have had to pay for extra because of the NSA?

[JoeProBono]

http://www.walmart.com/ip/TracFone-Huawei-H868C-Prepaid-Cell-Phone/29010035

[InterceptPoint]

Is it just me or does anyone else think the HEADLINE of this article is highly misleading.

The article refers to the capability to install a “software implant” in an iPhone. That, I believe, is different than installing a “software implant” in EVERY iPhone. I’m sure the former is common. It is standard spycraft. But there is no claim nor any proof of the later.

Somehow that difference was lost on both the guy/gal who wrote the headline and essentially everyone responding to this post.

[Ditter]

I still have an old flip phone and I have no plans to get an iphone, are they spying on me too?

If they are they are bored to tears.

“Did you let the dogs out before you left? OK good”

“What time will you be home? OK good”

“What are you going to cook for my dinner? That's a good boy!”

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is no great surprise. They have been able to do this for years with cellphones. Which basically means that if you have a cellphone with you, even if it is "off", its microphone can be used to listen in to your conversations.

And, since every cellphone now has automatic GPS, they not only monitor what you say, but where you say it. And where you travel, to and from, along with your current location.

And even this is enough. All new model cars have GPS, so even if you don't have your cellphone, your location is known. And a large number of public cameras are also available to them. And any time you use a credit card.

Etc., etc. Ad nauseum.

But remember, unless there is surveillance of you 24 hours a day, the terrorists win. Or something.

[Buckeye McFrog]

In a related item, sales of black electrical tape rise by 3800%.

[freds6girlies]

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[cashless]

Hee hee. Wonder how the OWS dunderheads and obvious hypocrites feel about their precious iPhone now. Their primary communication and social point of contact used to track their every call, every movement, and every treasonous, anarchist conversation. Useful idiots indeed.