NSA Has Almost Complete Access to Your iPhone, Including Your Camera and Microphone

Yesterday Apple denied having any knowledge of the iPhone spyware.

National Security Agency documents leaked to German news magazine, Der Spiegel, describe an NSA program called DROPOUTJEEP, which gives the agency backdoor access to nearly everything on Apple’s iphone such as remote activation of the camera and microphone, SMS and contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation and cell tower location (with SMS and GPRS functionality).

On Monday, the day after the documents were leaked by Der Spiegel, independent journalist and security expert, Jacob Appelbaum, told a hacker conference in Germany that the NSA could turn iPhones into eavesdropping tools and use radar waves to collect information from computers, even when offline.

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