Hackers On Planet Earth finds possible backdoor on Apple iOS devices

[Sushubh]

OMGZ. Time to put on tin foil. /s

Forensic scientist identifies suspicious 'back doors' running on every iOS device | ZDNet

In his talk, Zdziarski demonstrates "a number of undocumented high-value forensic services running on every iOS device" and "suspicious design omissions in iOS that make collection easier." He also provides examples of forensic artifacts acquired that "should never come off the device" without user consent.

According to one slide the iPhone is "reasonably secure" to a typical attacker and the iPhone 5 and iOS 7 are more secure from everybody except Apple and the government. But he notes that Apple has "worked hard to ensure that it can access data on end-user devices on behalf of law enforcement" and links to Apple's Law Enforcement Process Guidelines, which clearly spell this out.

Undocumented iOS services exposed by Zdziarski (like "lockdownd," "pcapd" and "mobile.file_relay") can bypass encrypted backups and be accessed via USB, wifi and "maybe cellular." What's most suspicious about the undocumented services (and the data they collect) is that they're not referenced in any Apple software, the data is personal in nature (thus unlikely to be for debugging) and is stored in raw format, making it impossible to restore to the device (making it useless to carriers or during a trip to the Genius Bar). Zdziarski does a good job of refuting most plausible explanations for the code.

 

[newuser990]

call me paranoid but i am sure that windows(specially from vista and above...) and Apple have backdoors for gov agencies

In one of the leaked documents "they" called anyone visiting Linux forum a person of interest and called linux forum an extremist forum.

If any zero-day is found in windows then microsoft report it to the gov agencies first and then fix it.this is not some tin foil stuff,it was in one of the leaked documents.this is true.

 

[Sushubh]

Yup. Anything that is not purely open source is likely to have backdoors. US government (NSA) has just too much influence at least over the companies operating there.

I mean even Chinese networking hardware is supposed to have backdoors accessible to Chinese government 😀