Not very surprising given everything else, but I thought I would forward the link. It more or less contends that the NSA has exploits for all major smartphones, which should not be surprising.
Quoting: The United States' National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers. Top secret NSA documents that SPIEGEL has seen explicitly note that the NSA can tap into such information on Apple iPhones, BlackBerry devices and Google's Android mobile operating system. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-nsa-can-spy-on-smart-phone-data-a-920971.html Note that companies frequently give their users VPN access via such devices, which means that they have something on them more dangerous than the phone contacts etc. that the article mentions, specifically access credentials. Such devices are also now frequently used to provide second factors for authentication. -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography