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Backdoors in RIM, Nokia & Apple hardware?
By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | January 8, 2012, 8:01am PST
Summary: Fakery, a black helicopters conspiracy theory, or is could it be for real?
Hackers claim to have uncovered documents that claim mobile handset makers RIM, Nokia and Apple provided the Indian intelligence services with backdoor access to spy on communications. But is there any substance to this claim
My ZDNet colleague Manan Kakkar has the details, along with copies of the documents, but for your convenience I?ll pick out the two excerpts of interest:
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To help you keep up, MM stands for ?mobile manufacturers? and RINOA stands for RIM, Nokia and Apple. I also believe that ?MI? stands for ?Mobile Infrastructure.?
So, is this a fakery, a black helicopters conspiracy theory, or is could it be for real?
Well, for starters, these are random documents from an unknown source, so that instantly makes my BS detector tingling. The hacking group, which go by the name of Lords of Dharmaraja,? that released these documents also claim to have the source code for the Norton Antivirus product, and while they?ve posted some information over on Pastebin (now deleted but a Google cache copy still exists). While Symantec has confirmed that the source code released was indeed part of an older Norton product (around four or five years old), none of that does anything to prove the validity of the documents released.
Detailed information:
http://www.zdnet.com...-hardware/17626
By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | January 8, 2012, 8:01am PST
Summary: Fakery, a black helicopters conspiracy theory, or is could it be for real?
Hackers claim to have uncovered documents that claim mobile handset makers RIM, Nokia and Apple provided the Indian intelligence services with backdoor access to spy on communications. But is there any substance to this claim
My ZDNet colleague Manan Kakkar has the details, along with copies of the documents, but for your convenience I?ll pick out the two excerpts of interest:
...
To help you keep up, MM stands for ?mobile manufacturers? and RINOA stands for RIM, Nokia and Apple. I also believe that ?MI? stands for ?Mobile Infrastructure.?
So, is this a fakery, a black helicopters conspiracy theory, or is could it be for real?
Well, for starters, these are random documents from an unknown source, so that instantly makes my BS detector tingling. The hacking group, which go by the name of Lords of Dharmaraja,? that released these documents also claim to have the source code for the Norton Antivirus product, and while they?ve posted some information over on Pastebin (now deleted but a Google cache copy still exists). While Symantec has confirmed that the source code released was indeed part of an older Norton product (around four or five years old), none of that does anything to prove the validity of the documents released.
Detailed information:
http://www.zdnet.com...-hardware/17626
