Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments

[TalkingDog]

http://slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/069204/leaked-memo-says-apple-provides-backdoor-to-governments

"In a tweet early this morning, cybersecurity researcher Christopher Soghoian pointed to an internal memo of India's Military Intelligence that has been liberated by hackers and posted on the Net. The memo suggests that, "in exchange for the Indian market presence" mobile device manufacturers, including RIM, Nokia, and Apple (collectively defined in the document as "RINOA&quot have agreed to provide backdoor access on their devices. The Indian government then "utilized backdoors provided by RINOA" to intercept internal emails of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a U.S. government body with a mandate to monitor, investigate and report to Congress on 'the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship' between the U.S. and China. Manan Kakkar, an Indian blogger for ZDNet, has also picked up the story and writes that it may be the fruits of an earlier hack of Symantec. If Apple is providing governments with a backdoor to iOS, can we assume that they have also done so with Mac OS X?"

[denem]

1. This is old news - Part of the Deals RIM, Nokia et all had to strike with India, Saudi, UK etc.

It regards the messenger service, not the OS at all. Unlike SMS, messenger services are encrypted. Now hat Apple has a messenger service of its own, they want an emergency key for that too. I don't know how the deals with RIM and Nokia were worked out, but it's not a free for all. You may recall that President Obama had to have special modifications made to his Blackberry before it was cleared for use. Now he carries an iPad - go figure.

There's no backdoor to the OS. If you want to send something securely, encrypt it with AES.

[leftyohiolib]

2. anyone still holding Jobs on a high pedestal?