[x-pubpol] Report: Apple iTunes flaw 'allowed government spying for 3 years

[Joly MacFie]

http://j.mp/tglKss  (Telegraph)

  "A British company called Gamma International marketed hacking software
   to governments that exploited the vulnerability via a bogus update to
   iTunes, Apple's media player, which is installed on more than 250
   million machines worldwide.  The hacking software, FinFisher, is used
   to spy on intelligence targets' computers. It is known to be used by
   British agencies and earlier this year records were discovered in
   abandoned offices of that showed it had been offered to Egypt's feared
   secret police."

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