DROPOUT JEEP: The NSA Program Devoted to Breaking Into iPhones

The only safe iPhone is an off iPhone.

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With every bit of news we get about the NSA, the less surprised we should be about the information they can get on us, and the lengths they'll go to get it.

While we had some more details about the secretive group leak over the weekend, new information has emerged from Germany about the NSA's DROPOUT JEEP program, which allows the organization to break into iPhones with a 100-percent success rate.

According to Jacob Applebaum, who spoke at the Chaos Communication Conference in Germany:

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Crazy? Yeah, but what may strike some as a total surprise is that Applebaum believes that there's a chance Apple likely helped the NSA with building the program.

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Android and BlackBerry seem to be in the crosshairs of the NSA as well, as the German newspaper Der Spiegel reports that the NSA has also found relatively simple ways of cracking them too.

Watch Applebaum's speech above.

[via Forbes]

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