YESTERDAY, WIKILEAKS RELEASED its latest batch of pilfered CIA material, five documents describing malicious software for taking over Apple MacBooks and iPhones, and wrote in an accompanying post that the CIA has been infecting the iPhone supply chain of its targets, prompting concerned readers to wonder if their iPhone or MacBook had been infected on the factory floor. In a statement, Apple says that is almost certainly not the case.As indicated in the documents, the attack methods described date in some cases back to 2009, when the iPhone line was in its infancy. Apples statement, provided to The Intercept and other media outlets, indicates that unless youre still using a relatively ancient model like the iPhone 3G, your smartphone could not even be even hypothetical vulnerable to the specific attacks published by WikiLeaks, and your Mac should be safe if it was made in the last four years.
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