Datagate: Apple denies, Dell mulls - Computer Point

continue to overlap confirmations and denials on tecnocontrollo U.S., even by the companies mentioned in the documents revealed. Meanwhile, the ACLU Sues Washington

Rome – Apple entered a straight leg on the latest rumors related to DataGate and denied his alleged collaboration with the NSA to create a backdoor on iPhone .

According to documents published on Cryptome, the agency of the U.S. security thanks to the software DROPOUTJEEP have a success rate of one hundred percent in the control of the iPhone and the resulting access to users ‘information and according to the analysis of’ security expert Jacob Appelbaum This can only mean two things: either that the NSA has a huge archive of exploits that used to sabotage Melafonino, or is that Apple itself to sabotage their own devices for the benefit of tecnocontrollo.

Cupertino, however, stepped in to strongly deny this second hypothesis: “We have never worked with the NSA to create backdoors in any of our products. Moreover, we were also unaware of this alleged NSA program that had as its target our products. We very much care about the privacy and security of our customers. Our team continues to work to make our products more secure. “

It was not as ready in denial Dell, using a standard answer usually used by its customer service on Twitter, wrote on tecnofringuello that “sorry for the inconvenience and would seek to resolve the issue”: the problem is that it has made in response to a tweet asking confirmation of a bug that was believed to be inserted at the BIOS level and it was used by the NSA to intercept its users.

There are, however, only ICT companies must contend with the consequences the DataGate: after the protests officially moved ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union ) and, together with Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic Yale, sued the government USA. Invoking the Freedom of Information Act , asked to be given the information discussed on the application of Executive Order 12333.

According to the union to protect the rights of citizens, in fact, if on the one hand some of the behaviors of the NSA completely outside the law and are therefore covered issues of legal liability of his men, the speech is different for acts committed in the name of that legislation that would allow the agency to intercept U.S. security citizens stars and stripes abroad since the U.S. judicial authority is limited to its territory, the legislation as provided would allow the NSA to find tricks to work without supervision . A regulatory vacuum in which Washington should definitely put her hand.

The U.S. government has so far reported not want to comment on the matter .

Claudio Tamburrino