Did Apple Create This Backdoor for the NSA?

Timestamps:
0:00 Privacy?
0:27 Discovering TRIANGULATION
1:14 How iPhones were Hacked
3:13 Who’s Behind It?
4:20 Apple collusion
6:50 How can you detect TRIANGULATION?
7:40 PCBWay
8:21 Outro

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[wyattchilton]

I can confirm I'm sitting down for this one

[StephenGillie]

Not "NSA Made Apple Add A Back Door" but "NSA quietly helped guide Apple's development efforts to other services, and to neglect these weird parts of iMessage, while NSA's other teams worked on iMessage exploits". This is basically the NSA's day job.

[WalnutBun]

Something to note about the lack of persistence: it doesn't really matter if the attacker can just send you another infected message. If the malware regularly calls back, a missed callback could automatically trigger a new message, which (assuming the phone was rebooted) would be received automatically once the phone turns back on.

[atpray]

Since this kind of exploit has already happened before, it is very unlikely that Apple included a backdoor. It might just be another bug.

[RealCyberCrime]

A video on FBI viruses and keyloggers that mainstream anti viruses can't legally detect would be cool (magic lantern, cipav, carnivore)

I’m thinking about making a similar video

[kimmeex]

"It's easier to fool people than convince them they've been fooled" - Ronald Reagan

[blimeycrikey]

Lets face it, there's no such thing as privacy in today's world.

[onemoreguyonline]

"Privacy" is actually a registered trademark for a service, much as "100% Beef" is a McDonald's product.

[Alexander-ixjp]

Everything based in the US will always be subjective to US laws, privacy related concerns, politics, pantents, and yes even surveillance. Apple, Microsoft and more have to comply and grant access, and the ppl purchasing these products are willingly accepting this too - even outside of US territory. Russia is onto something here. Even Linus Torvalds father and the man himself have stated being approached by US surveillance agencies to open their doors for US surveillance / agendas, which is now even easier than before seeing how Linus is now living in the States.

[isbestlizard]

Maybe. How many days has it been since the latest 'Oopsie doopsie we accidentally left some hard-coded back door credentials in our router operating system!' Cisco statement?

[manorgy]

I dunno if it would ruin Apple in the unlikely event they did cooperate willingly, consaidering how little people seem to care about these things, and how readily these news get swept under the rug

[rkvkydqf]

6:35 As far as I know, Aurora isn't their own OS, but a licensed local brand of Sailfish by Jolla, a Finnish company, a niche mobile Linux OS built for paranoid enterprises that is mostly open-source.

[fredrikzels]

I just love Seytonic and his infosec news!! Keep up the great work!!

[JohnDlugosz]

What if it's not "Apple" the company, but individual developers working _at_ Apple?
They could be blackmailed into introducing mistakes, or enticed into reporting any found flaws to the external agency and not reporting it (or fixing it) at work.

[diesertesch]

I think it's pretty naive to think that the us government couldn't force apple to behave in their favour.

[cedricvillani]

Do a story about the long (2016) forgotten AUDIO hack no being used in Taiwan by a company called SenseTime, using audio to take pictures (Ultrasonics and Array mics etc..)

[commandcracker]

The more a company talks about security, the more unsecure they are.

[pauldean]

I enjoy the way you explain complex cyber topics in a simple and accessible way. As you say these claims are unlikely.

The best advice I saw about these sorts of exploits was to restart your phone if you receive an unusual text. Lockdown mode of course would block many of these exploits.

[ashishpatel]

Apple was in on it. Their privacy marketing is just marketing they don't care

[brandonw]

They can set behaviors of the phone based on geo-location. I wouldn't put it passed them to set every iPhone in Russia to have the backdoor.