Apple products are the CIA's target, from their launches, tried to break the security of the brand's products at the apple.
The US news website The Intercept , based on confidential documents submitted by Edward Snowden says that researchers CIA tried for years to hack the security system that protects smartphones and tablets brand apple .
A modified version of Xcode to create backdoors
The documents suggest that the CIA has developed its own version of XCode, application development software for Apple products. In this way, the government agency would have been able to set up backdoors or faults, allowing them to spy in peace the product owner.
Documents provided by the "whistleblower" Snowden specify that hacking attempts of the US government agency began in 2006, a year before the first iPhone are placed on the market. These attempts within the scope of a project ultraconfidentiel the US government, with the support and assistance of the British intelligence service. The goal was to hack communication systems, in order to monitor and record conversations and exchanges of targets, both abroad and in the US territory.
Hacking attempts that began before the sale of the first iPhone
2013 documents do not specify whether the government agency has been able or not to break the encryption that protects data and communications of the users of smartphones and Apple tablets.
A word carries Apple said the company did not want to comment on the article and recalls the statements of Tim Cook. Last year, he had indicated he " had never worked with any government agency whether to create a "back door" in one of its products or services and that n had never allowed access to its servers and never would. "
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