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With the revelation about the types of cyber surveillance that makes the National Security Agency (NSA, for its acronym in English), has now been discovered that not only the Android mobile operating system is vulnerable, but even so are Apple’s iOS and stronger these traits in the BlackBerry.

According to the Spiegel Online site, the U.S. agency may know the details about the behavior and location of the user, the SMS traffic, interest (by search terms, eg ), photos and sometimes credit card numbers or passwords.

The newspaper reports that an internal report of the 2010 NSA “Exploring current trends, goals and techniques”, describes the spread of smartphones that were growing “very fast”.

According to documents were created working groups for major smart phone manufacturers and operating systems. Teams of experts began to study intensively and Apple iPhone iOS and Android mobile operating system from Google.

In particular, another team worked on ways to attack that BlackBerry had been regarded as an impregnable fortress before.

Note that the NSA apparently was not doing this practice in mass, and have the power to do it, but its activities are concentrated in certain individuals under suspicion.

Finally, the publication shown in U.S. agency worked in partnership with the British Intelligence Agency (GCHQ) to decode the codes specific BlackBerry.

Several news sources claim that this news affects more BlackBerry because sales declined in recent years and they had cryptography was one of the main strongholds of the company to stay in business.