10-03-2015 11:48 via uk.news.yahoo.com

CIA sought to hack Apple iPhones from earliest days - The Intercept

By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) - CIA researchers have worked for nearly a decade to break the security protecting Apple phones and tablets, investigative news site The Intercept reported on Tuesday, citing documents obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The report cites top-secret U.S. documents that suggest U.S. government researchers had created a version of XCode, Apple's software application development tool, to create surveillance backdoors into programs distributed on A
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