Friday, September 7, 2012

FBI Caught Spying on Millions of Apple Customers

In 2010, Apple told a congressional inquiry that it cannot track iPhones in real time. A hacker named Eric Smith noted that third party applications can transmit UDIDs, which could potentially be linked to the owner and used to track that person. This is precisely what hackers with Anonymous think the FBI was doing.
Anonymous claims to have hacked into a laptop owned by a FBI cyber security expert, and downloaded several files including one that contained over 12 million Apple iOS devices including UDIDs. Personal detail fields appear all over the files and no file or folder mentions any purpose of the list...

http://zazenlife.com/2012/09/05/fbi-caught-spying-on-millions-of-apple-customers/ 

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