Apple is again suspected of spying
The US military has developed a concept application that spies on the owner of the smartphone. A special program itself turns on the camera and takes pictures. Moreover, the application can even create an 3D model of the room in which the owner of the phone is located. Soft plan to use in various military departments. But if the development falls into the hands of hackers, they will be able not only to find out where this or that person lives, but also to find out, for example, the password from the safe or the credit card code. However, even without such programs, companies that produce smartphones are accused of spying on the users of their products. In particular, Apple is not the first time attacking such attacks.
Actress and TV presenter Victoria Bonia is always at gunpoint photos and video cameras: the paparazzi are eager for new piquant shots. But if she seemed to learn how to fight off annoying journalists, then what to do with the new disaster? All that is on her iPhone is now supposedly public domain.
The fact that smartphones and, in particular, the iPhone, collect your personal data and even sometimes conduct hidden photography, said Natalia Kasperskaya, who is engaged in information security. From where such information she does not speak. But he claims that your correspondence, pictures, contacts are exposed by the program Carrier IQ, deeply sewn into the software.
“Why can we say that the program is spyware? Because it is not declared, that is, the person who buys the smartphone does not see the icons in the program. Accordingly, he does not know whether he has this program or not,” explained the Group’s CEO of companies InfoWatch Natalya Kasperskaya.
Opportunities for intruders, experts say, opened the sixth version of iOS. Photos in the Internet browser can now be downloaded directly, thus they have become much more accessible for fraudsters. However, if they wanted to take possession of your information, then there are much simpler ways.
“The Apple Store has a huge number of programs that cost 2-3 dollars, which make the phone a full-fledged camera that is accessible from the Internet. For example, so that parents can look after their children. The attackers can use this. It’s cheaper and easier,” Oleg said Gabov, an information security expert at Andek.
In order to somehow save yourself from total surveillance, it is better to constantly clean the information on the phone and more often turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Even hackers cannot provide any other protection.
"In principle, you can develop a program that will encrypt your files, but this is not necessary, because Apple has all the files. If necessary, they will get everything," says hacker Alex Brodin.
Apple expert Alexander Patsay doubts about the presence of spyware functionality in iPhones. If he had been, he would have been noticed long ago. For example, outgoing data traffic.
“It’s not so difficult to intercept traffic from the device. If you are paranoid, it doesn’t mean that you are being watched. But there are no lawsuits that Apple photographs users in the US,” says Alexander.
The company Apple last year already tried to blame the collection of personal information. But then the Yabloko members explained everything - they studied the data on the geo-positions of the owners in order to improve the performance of the system. Perhaps now they will also find an explanation. But meanwhile, some concerned users are already in a hurry to delete personal SMS and photos.
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