A new report published by The Intercept details the effort spent by the US intelligence to compromise the security of Apple devices. A team of researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency has conducted a multi-year espionage campaign to break overwhelm the security mechanisms implemented by Apple for its mobile devices, iPhones and iPads. The effort is aligned with the secret U.S. government program to analyze secure communications products, both foreign and domestic in order to develop exploitation capabilities against the authentication and encryption schemes The project received $35 million in funding in 2012.”]
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