Apple denies of Installing backdoors on iOS device

Yesterday we have noted that a Forensic Security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski, who claim to identifies that Apple had installed several backdoors in iOS and there are many hidden service in Apple iOS device that are being used to bypass the backup encryption on iOS device. It was suggested that this could be because Apple wanted to make it easy for law enforcement agencies to gain access in the event that they needed one, with the proper requests and paperwork of course.

Well it seems that Apple is simply denies of the researcher claims and issue a statement that which denying that the existence of the backdoors. Along with that Apple have once again remined that Apple has never worked with any government agency and they have not create any backdoors in any of its products.

Apple Response

Apple have release a statement to Tim Bradshaw, a tech reporter at the Financial Times, denying those allegations and wrote:

“We have designed iOS so that its diagnostic functions do not compromise user privacy and security, but still provides needed information to enterprise IT departments, developers and Apple for troubleshooting technical issues. A user must have unlocked their device and agreed to trust another computer before that computer is able to access this limited diagnostic data. The user must agree to share this information, and data is never transferred without their consent.”

Apple statement denies working with "any government agency ... to create a backdoor in any of our products" pic.twitter.com/5psXWtOXW2
— Tim Bradshaw (@tim) July 21, 2014

 Apple Published Support Page

Apple has described several diagnostic capabilities offered in iOS in response to the backdoor access claims. The company has published a support document on its website outlining the three iOS diagnostic capabilities pointed out by the researcher.

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