The NSA can access smart phone data including contacts, SMS traffic, notes and user location information, Der Spiegel reported Saturday, citing top secret agency documents seen by the newsmagazine.
Der Spiegel cited documents where experts boast about instances where the NSA can access a computer used by a person to synch their iPhone. Mini-programs, called “scripts,” then allow at least 38 additional iPhone features to be accessed.
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How the NSA accesses smartphone data in english:
http://cryptome.org/2013/09/nsa-smartphones-en.pdf
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