Identifying back doors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

[Juan]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:20:18 -0700
coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:

> doubt this will surprise anyone; iOS intentionally designed to support
> surveillance.
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> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1742287614000036


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> 
> "Identifying back doors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in
> iOS devices"
>  by Jonathan Zdziarski
> 
> Abstract
> 
> The iOS operating system has long been a subject of interest among the
> forensics and law enforcement communities. With a large base of
> interest among consumers, it has become the target of many hackers and
> criminals alike, with many celebrity thefts (For example, the recent
> article “How did Scarlett Johansson's phone get hacked?”) of data
> raising awareness to personal privacy. Recent revelations (Privacy
> scandal: NSA can spy on smart phone data, 2013 and How the NSA spies
> on smartphones including the BlackBerry) exposed the use (or abuse) of
> operating system features in the surveillance of targeted individuals
> by the National Security Agency (NSA), of whom some subjects appear to
> be American citizens. This paper identifies the most probable
> techniques that were used, based on the descriptions provided by the
> media, and today's possible techniques that could be exploited in the
> future, based on what may be back doors, bypass switches, general
> weaknesses, or surveillance mechanisms intended for enterprise use in
> current release versions of iOS. More importantly, I will identify
> several services and mechanisms that can be abused by a government
> agency or malicious party to extract intelligence on a subject,
> including services that may in fact be back doors introduced by the
> manufacturer...
> '''
>