Every one of those have been looked at by Mac and iOS programming experts and they ALL required physical possession of the device and the users’ passcode to install. I.E., they essentially could only be installed with the help of the user. They were Trojans, installed by way of planting them on a Mac, then doing a restore of the iOS device from a backup on the users’ Mac, entering the user’s iOS passcode to initiate the full backup, to install the maliciously altered app. It notes that the vulnerabilities would not survive updates from Apple. They didn’t. Keep in mind these all came from Snowden’s downloads circa 2013 and before.
That being said, I have no doubt that the NSA has continued their efforts in these areas. In fact, I would be disappointed if they had discontinued them. That’s their job.
Yikes! Are you saying they had nothing to do with surveillance? ... or that they were the means of tapping an iphone or Mac?
Now that I look at those pages they don't seem to be what I thought they were. I slept 11 hours last night (!!!) and seemed out of focus all day. I think that was the only post I did all day and I thought they dealt with a surveillance effort by the 0bama Admin. Now that I look at them I don't know what they say. They were accessed by a post on a website - American something. That was from my desktop files and I am on my tablet right now. I guess those WikiLeaks links were part of the surveillance access or something. As I say, I was out to sea in the Horse Latitudes, I think. :^) Thanks.