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This week, The Guardian published a new article that unveiled another controversy (one more) related to the hidden spy class=”caps”> . According to British newspaper, Edward Snowden documents provided by the agency showed that the U.S. government and its British counterpart were devoting great efforts and material “break technologies widely used in Internet encryption” . In addition, these reports contributed other data: the NSA spent over 250 million dollars each year to break those ciphers.

Today, the German newspaper Spiegel continues to fuel this controversy with new information on hidden spy, although in this case aimed at smartphones. According to this newspaper, which has had access to classified documents NSA , this agency can access certain information from Android phones, iOS and BlackBerry . Operating system (Windows is not mentioned Phone) has a specific division within this organization working in order to get access to these terminals.

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accessible by the authorities referred Spiegel are the contact lists, SMS traffic class=”caps”> , notes and even the location information that indicates which sites the user has been. For iOS, these documents make reference to some “scripts” that can directly access 38 features iOS mobile devices.

For BlackBerry, and always according to these documents, the NSA can even access the mail system. They even go further and recognize that in 2009 the agency lost access to the devices of this brand because data compression changed, something they failed to recover until 2010. In any case, the newspaper Spiegel claims that it has used this technique for mass espionage, but individual cases without the knowledge of the manufacturers .

newspaper does not give more information , but am now published in its edition full article can possibly find more data. They also cite the BlackBerry response to these allegations, which claims to have programmed a back-door access in its terminals.

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