Apple has been accused of intentionally installing security
backdoors in some 600 million iOS devices that offer surveillance-
level access to data including photos, browsing history and GPS
locations. The vulnerabilities were uncovered by security expert
Jonathan Zdziarski, who presented an academic paper on the
subject at a hacker conference in New York last Friday.
Apple has issued a statement saying that the company's
"diagnostic functions do not compromise user privacy and
security," but Zdziarski has responded by noting that these
services "dish out data" regardless of whether the user has
agreed to diagnostics. "There is no way to disable these
mechanisms," Zdziarski said. "This makes it much harder to
believe that Apple is actually telling the truth here."
The backdoors cover a range of hidden tools and protocols that
activate with "paired" computers — machines connected to an
iPhone or iPad via USB — that the user has granted access to.
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