NSA can access sensitive data from smartphones (Image Source : Playback / LifeHacker)
German newspaper Der Spiegel has just put more fuel on the fire of the American espionage scandal. According to the publication, the National Security Agency of the United States (NSA) can access data of users of iPhones, Android and BlackBerry – the latter, a system that was previously believed to be highly secure.
Unsurprisingly the NSA can gain access to smartphones, but the secret documents that reveal Spiegel obtained access to the American agency can access sensitive data appliances including a list of contacts, SMS traffic, notes and information the location that the user is.
The documents also indicate that the NSA has created specific working groups to deal with each operating system, in order to gain access to secret data in smartphones.
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The newspaper also reports that experts boasted in getting access so successful data from an iPhone. In case, the NSA was able to infiltrate the computer that a person used to synchronize the Apple smartphone. Then scripts allowed access at least 38 features of iOS.
The same success was achieved with the BlackBerry devices. A document from the NSA 2009 states that the agency was able to see and read SMS traffic of devices. In addition, they gained access to the email system, known to be very safe – which should represent a huge setback for the Blackberry, which claimed his email system was unreadable.
According to the material accessed by Der Spiegel, spying on smartphones would not have been a mass phenomenon, but, taken individually, and without the knowledge of the device manufacturers.
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