Expert says NSA can turn iPhone into wiretap  

美国安局可将iPhone变窃听工具 安全专家解密

据外媒报道，一位知名的隐私倡导者30日出席一个黑客会议时，解密了美国国安局获取情报的高科技工具。独立记者兼安全专家阿贝尔鲍姆(Jacob Appelbaum)30日出席在德国举行的一个黑客会议时表示，美国国家安全局可以把苹果手机转换为窃听工具，并用雷达设备从电脑中获取电子信息，即使这些电脑并不在线。 [查看全文]

(ECNS) – The US National Security Agency (NSA) can turn an iPhone into a spying tool and obtain digital information from computers via radar devices, according to German media, citing well-known privacy advocate Jacob Appelbaum.

Appelbaum said at a hacker conference in Germany on Monday that the NSA's capabilities "are even worse than your worst nightmares."

He revealed surveillance tools the NSA used through what appeared to be the agency's internal slides. One slide shows the NSA can insert malware into iPhones, turning them into spying devices. And another one displayed a portable continuous wave generator, which can bounce energy waves off keyboards and monitor what is being typed even if the target device is offline.

What Appelbaum presented in his speech was published by German magazine Der Spiegel, which had played an important role, with Appelbaum, in the disclosures of NSA leaker Edward Snowden. However, neither has clarified whether the slides came from Snowden.

Vanee Vines, from the NSA, said she hadn't heard Appelbaum's speech and the agency wouldn't comment on it.