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iPhone: NSA iSnoop Device?
by Kurt Nimmo According to a Russian hacker team called “web-hack,” Apple’s much heralded and overly hyped iPhone contains “a built-in function which sends all data from an iPhone to a specified web-server. Contacts from a phonebook, SMS, recent calls, history of Safari browser” can be hijacked, as the VS iPhone blog reports.
In a white paper, according to the blog, the Russians indicate a possible “debug feature or a built-in backdoor module for some governmental structures,” i.e., the National Security Agency, the lead governmental structure responsible for violating en masse the constitutional rights of Americans. Of course, it helps that “Apple has chosen AT&T, the best and most popular carrier in the US with over 62 million subscribers, to be Apple’s exclusive carrier partner for iPhone in the United States,” as the AT&T website boasts.
As we know, the telecom leviathan illegally collaborated with the NSA to break the law.
“AT&T
violated the law, and the rights of its customers, by allowing and
assisting with the illegal wiretapping and data-mining. The
government’s spying program on ordinary Americans would not be possible
without AT&T collaborating in violating your privacy,” explains an
Electronic Frontier Foundation FAQ. “EFF alleges that under the NSA
domestic spying program, major telecommunications companies—and
AT&T specifically—gave the NSA direct access to their vast
databases of communications records, including information about whom
their customers have phoned or emailed with in the past. EFF alleges
that AT&T, in addition to allowing the NSA direct access to the
phone and Internet communications passing over its network, and gave
the government unfettered access to its over 300 terabyte ‘Daytona’
database of caller information—one of the largest databases in the
world.”
“The essential hardware elements of a (Total Information
Awareness)-type spy program are being surreptitiously slipped into
‘real world’ telecommunications offices,” Wired News reported former
AT&T technician Mark Klein as writing. According to Klein and a
report published by the New York Times, the NSA-AT&T “Orwellian
project… is vastly bigger” than previously figured “and was directly
authorized by President Bush, as he himself has now admitted, in
flagrant violation of specific statutes and constitutional protections
for civil liberties.” In the meantime, Bush has signed a number of
executive orders essentially granting himself the power of a Roman
Magister Populi, a dictatorial master over the commoners.
Considering all of this, it makes perfect sense for the Apple iPhone to double as an NSA iSnoop device.
“Last
year, it was discovered that AT&T has been secretly spying on
Americans for the government,” notes Adam Frucci for the Gizmodo blog.
“Maybe it still is. Then, just recently, it announced that it planned
to spy on Internet surfers yet again, looking for pirated media files,
presumably to the delight of the RIAA and MPAA. If you don’t want to
get spied on and want to switch ISPs, guess what? Depending on where
you live, you might not have any other options. And if AT&T snoops
on all data passing through its network, most US Internet users will be
affected, not just AT&T customers. It runs a significant amount of
the backbone infrastructure of the Internet, leaving little traffic
outside its grasp.”
But never mind. Apple’s iPhone is so cool
and trendy a lot of buyers and potential buyers will shrug off the fact
the device is—if the Russian hackers who reverse engineered the gadget
are correct—a custom-made snoop device that routes your personal data
right to an NSA Cray super computer.
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According to a Russian hacker team called “web-hack,” Apple’s much heralded and overly hyped iPhone contains “a built-in function which sends all data from an iPhone to a specified web-server. Contacts from a phonebook, SMS, recent calls, history of Safari browser” can be hijacked, as the VS iPhone blog reports. 
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