Apple has made it clear that it intends to fight the FBI’s demands for a backdoor into the iPhone all the way to the Supreme Court. That makes sense, given that privacy is both a principle and a product for the company behind the world’s most recognizable smartphone. Apple and other companies are facing increasing demands from the government to build backdoor access into their devices, and they’re fighting those demands to protect the security of their platforms.
But as Min Pyo Hong of app security company SEWORKS reports for TechCrunch, there’s another motivation at play in Apple’s resistance to the FBI’s demands — one that Apple doesn’t want to talk about. And that’s the fact that the iPhone is already vulnerable to hackers. To be clear, it’s not just Apple’s iPhone that’s vulnerable. (Android smartphones and devices powered by other platforms are, too.) But as Hong notes, the iPhone already has backdoors that Apple hasn’t yet closed.
Though he can’t publicly share the details of the vulnerability, Hong reports “at least one instance where black hat hackers have been able to extract data from an iPhone with a recent OS by directly accessing it through critical flaws that enable a backdoor into, and data extraction from, a designated device.” The breach was uncovered by a member of the hacker community, and while Hong is unable to confirm whether this hacking method would work on an iPhone running the latest version of iOS, iPhone users should still take note. For the full article click here
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