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

[Cari Machet]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:20:18 -0700
> coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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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>         $ 31.50 ?
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what are you referencing please?


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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...
> > '''
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