An expert in the field of information security, Jonathan Zdziarski said that the operating system iOS 8 GM Apple has eliminated almost all of your Bookmarks, designed to collect information about users. He wrote about this in his blog.
In July this year, a hacker who took an active part in the development of the first jailbreak for the iPhone models and the author of several books on application development, found that more than 600 million mobile devices, Apple, are in operation around the world, include "undocumented services running in the background "as well as" suspicious omissions in design iOS, which facilitate the collection of data. "
Zdziarski told in details about the services and com.apple.pcapd com.apple.mobile.file_relay, which allegedly are able to extract user data, bypassing the encryption function and pass information from a device on request.
According to him, in the GM-version of iOS 8 developers eliminated almost all undocumented functions. However, Apple's left active service file_relay, which collects data about the owners of iPhone and iPad.
«File_relay allows limited copying of diagnostic data from the device. The service operates separately from the tool to create custom backups, do not have access to all information on the device and operates within the service iOS Data Protection.Apple has used file_relay on domestic gadgets for testing user configurations. "
Itself Apple denies the presence of iOS-devices bookmarks designed to collect information about users. According to the California-based company, we are talking about the diagnostic services that have nothing to do with the US intelligence. After the scandal, the company said that he had never worked with government agencies for creating backdoors in their own products or services and has published a page on the site with a detailed description of each diagnostic service.
Release iOS 8 GM took place three months after the release of the first beta, followed by the presentation of the smartphone iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch. Gold Master is the latest iOS 8 assembly, released with two goals ultimate refinement of applications for the new operating system and search for the last unresolved errors. Public iOS 8 version will be available for download on September 17 .