{"id":165,"date":"2015-03-11T05:36:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T05:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2024-12-23T07:53:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T07:53:58","slug":"cia-spent-last-10-years-cracking-apples-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/cia-spent-last-10-years-cracking-apples-encryption-165\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA spent last 10 years cracking Apple\u2019s encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The CIA has been trying to crack Apple\u2019s encryption for nearly 10 years.<\/p>\n

According to a report by The Intercept, the CIA began trying to crack Apple\u2019s encryption in 2006 using funds from the \u201cblack budget.\u201d\u00a0 The researchers who worked on breaking down Apple\u2019s privacy wall were purportedly based at Sandia National Laboratories.<\/p>\n

Although the report did expose the CIA\u2019s effort, it did not tell us much about whether or not the agency succeeded in meeting their objectives.\u00a0 What it did tell us was Apple became a big enough thorn in the eyes of these secretive agencies that they had to invest heavily to crack the privacy barrier put in place to protect consumers.<\/p>\n

Apple isn\u2019t the only tech giant on the radar when it comes to issues regarding national security.\u00a0 Companies such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft have all been probed by government agencies.\u00a0 How much information exchanged hands within the last couple years is unknown, but as the stories continue to unearth themselves it is clear that there are growing distrusts between these companies and their users.<\/p>\n

Google and Apple both announced recently that it has either made or will make changes to the encryptions to protect the privacy of consumers.\u00a0 Apple said last September that it altered its encryption method on the iPhone so that even the company couldn\u2019t access its users\u2019 data.<\/p>\n

Apple rules its ecosystem with an iron fist, but the same can\u2019t be said about Google and its partners utilizing the Android platform.\u00a0 Google may have the intentions of beefing up the system\u2019s security features, but to apply them on most Android-based handsets around the world is a task that\u2019s nearly impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CIA has been trying to crack Apple\u2019s encryption for nearly 10 years. According to a report by The Intercept, the CIA began trying to crack Apple\u2019s encryption in 2006 using funds from the \u201cblack budget.\u201d\u00a0 The researchers who worked on breaking down Apple\u2019s privacy wall were purportedly based at Sandia National Laboratories. Although the … Continue reading CIA spent last 10 years cracking Apple\u2019s encryption<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[60,66,65],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apple","tag-apples-encryption","tag-cia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}