So, the NSA utilize new iphone - Swedish Dagbladet

When iPhone 5S featured in Apple’s well-attended event yesterday called the company for “the most forward-looking we’ve done.”

addition to a faster processor was the biggest news of the new smart cell phone equipped with a fingerprint reader. It will replace the PIN and used to authorize the purchase of apps.

reader was expected when Apple bought AuthenTec fingerprint company last year.

Apple will certainly not create a database of fingerprints, but the asset exists and that it saved encrypted locally is no obstacle to intelligence services.

Christoffer Kullenberg, netizen and graduate student in philosophy of science.

According to Apple stores fingerprints locally on the mobile and not in the cloud, and they believe that the information not be disclosed to other entities or authorities.

But the recent revelations about Apple and other big corporate partnerships with the intelligence services of the NSA get critics to urge caution.

Christoffer Kullenberg is netizen and graduate student in philosophy of science at the University of Gothenburg.

He thinks it was not just fantasize cal apple users who rejoiced at the release of the iPhone 5S.

– The world’s intelligence services receives it with warm hands. There is another way to collect data. They see it as a great opportunity. Fingerprinting is sensitive because it is a very good forensic source says Christoffer Kullenberg to SvD.

– In practice, it will still be a database of fingerprints, such as the NSA can access. NSA with simple means access to such a phone, and go in and get the fingerprint.

That Apple saves fingerprints encrypted locally on the phone’s hard drive does not prevent such NSA, according to Christopher Kullenberg.

He argues that an iPhone is easy to crack the security services and police forces. For example, Egypt’s former dictator Mubarak had access to Egyptian iphones, because the regime bought the software from the UK to crack them.

– There is a huge market of the intelligence services. Either you seize an iphone and have automated programs that take out all the data, and nowadays when even fingerprints, or you can through a back door to get into the phone through a cell tower, then it is open to the operator says Christoffer Kullenberg.

He argues that in practice are the promises from Apple is not worth anything, because the NSA’s requests trumps our user agreement with Apple.

– Had Apple been a Chinese company, we had not allowed the iPhone, for example, the Tax Agency says Christoffer Kullenberg.

He says it in itself is not a problem to have a fingerprint reader on a phone. The problem is who has access to what is stored digitally.

In this case, it is Apple that will guarantee that the encryption is secure. Christoffer Kullenberg would rather exerting control over how such important information secured.

Not only intelligence but also Apple can take control of their phones whenever they want. It is technically possible for Apple to collect fingerprints from all their phones in such a particular city on behalf of an intelligence agency, according to Christopher Kullenberg.

He also refers to previous revelations that geopositioner saved in files and collected, as well as the unique UUID number, which can be assigned to each mobile, found themselves adrift in an app-maker .

– The basis is that there are lots of attackvektorer of an iphone. Apple will certainly not create a database of fingerprints, but the availability is and it saved encrypted locally is no obstacle to intelligence agencies, says Christoffer Kullenberg.

Smartphones are generally a gold mine for police and security services. For example, mobiles switched off remotely turned on to find the position, and individuals can be bugged by remotely via their own mobile phones.

– It is clear that the police will use the opportunity to legally get into the phone and remove the evidence in criminal investigations. Then there are also shades of gray that is perhaps more interesting. Apple may try to build a safe product with fingerprint reader, but Iphone has poor security, says Christoffer Kullenberg.

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