Among the first documents leaked by onetime government contractor Edward Snowden was a slide listing companies the National Security Agency tapped into to help them conduct their secret PRISM spying program. Not surprisingly, the list is rich with giant tech firms: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook — and Apple. According to the slide, the NSA broke into Apple’s data in October 2012.
A month ago, Snowden revealed new documents showing the NSA had conducted espionage on iPhones with a program dubbed DROPOUT JEEP, which allowed the agency access to text messages, voicemails and other personal data. (Video regarding that program appears below.)
Here’s where it gets interesting.
