Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) annually conducts secret conferences focusing on security breach smartphones iPhone, the iPad and the Mac. Reported by Intercept with reference to the documents submitted by the former NSA employee Edward Snowden.
Meeting under the auspices of the CIA are called "party» (Jamboree) convened and began a decade ago. As seen from the sensitive documents, the researchers, mainly focused on the problem of encryption keys that prevent unauthorized access to information stored in the products Apple. To "party" in 2012 specialists describe their attacks on software to create applications for App Store. In particular, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories (US Department of Energy) presented the report "Package means to attack the software Mac and iOS».
Program staff say they have managed to create a modified version of Xcode - IDE software under OS X and iOS, which is used to create applications that are sold through the App Store, and would allow the theft of passwords and messages from infected devices. In this case, it remains unclear how the security services can be spread through infected version among developers. The authors of the material also recognize that the documents did not specify how successful the struggle of special services with cryptographic mechanisms Apple.
In January it became known that the US and British intelligence agencies managed to crack the iPhone, so they can get all the information from the phone while you sync your device with your computer. Other methods allow GCHQ to monitor specific user, specify the desired smartphone in various services on the unique identifier iOS-devices (UDID).
The report refers to November 2010, ie before the Apple began to abandon the system UDID, but documents show that for the purposes of espionage UDID was a real find.