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May 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Eddie Wrenn
03:33 EST, 18 May 2012
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08:36 EST, 18 May 2012
Police – or anyone with a piece of spying software – can track everything you do on your iPhone without needing physical access to your phone.
The software, called Phone Password Breaker, can download all of the data from Apple’s iCloud service – which backs up all of your pictures, text messages, emails, calendar appointments, call logs, website you have visited, and contacts.
As iPhones sync nearly instantaneously with iCloud, anyone who is listening will have near-instantaneous access to your phone – without the owner noticing a thing.
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ElcomSoft chief executive Vladimir Katalov said: ‘While other methods require the presence of the actual iPhone device being analysed or at least an access to device backups, this is not the case with iCloud.
‘In a sense, Phone Password Breaker becomes an alternative way to get access to iOS devices’ content.
‘With avalid Apple ID and a password, investigators can not only retrieve backups to seized devices, but access that information in real-time while the phone is still in the hands of a suspect’.
The majority of iPhone and iPad users use iCloud to back up all of their data, apps and media – with an estimated 125million people using the software as of April.
As long as investigators or anyone with the software has the correct email address and password for the machine they want to crack, they can download all the information from iCloud with the user knowing.
Steve Jobs announcing iCloud: However company ElcomSoft can download all your data, unencrypted
And as iPhones sync with iCloud in near-real-time, they can keep up with you where-ever you are.
The researchers at ElcomSoft studied the communication protocol connecting iPhone users with the iCloud, and were able to figure out the right commands to retrieve data stored on the servers.
Their job was made even easier as the data is received in an unencrypted format.
The only way to protect yourself is to either not back up your phone, or do local ‘offline’ backups on your home computer via iTunes.
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Scaremongering at its best. If someone had my apple ID and password, they could do a whole lot worse than snoop in my back-ups, like buy the whole Tom Jones back catalogue on my iTunes account. Gulp.
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They can track your movements without you having access to the Internet through CCTV, card transactions, police insurance cameras etc. This isn’t really a surprise. I don’t care; it makes it easier to find criminals and I have nothing to hide.
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It CAN, doesn’t mean they DO
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So you’re saying if someone has your online username and password they can login to your online account? Who writes this stuff?
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Nothing new here. All of this has been possible since the development of 3G and other little ‘apps’ such as Google Maps. I woke up to the possibility of whoever being able to track me in real time back in February 2008. I downloaded Google Maps onto my Nokia N95 8gb and saw a ‘blue blob’ representing me on a sattelite map and I was tracked to within my socks-absolutly precise location on Google Maps. It didn’t take much working out to see anybody could track me via my mobile phone. And I believe there is an awful lot to fear. Our fundamental freedoms are being eroded to a point where we will not be able to do anything without somebody else knowing about it. The Bible talks about nobody being able to work or trade without receiving the mark of The Beast on their hand of forehead. It is starting to point that way and all by stealth,all by promising the customer some great benefit. Mobiles already have NFC for payments just imagine your wages being paid into your iPhone etc? It’s coming!
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Oh no!! The RIPA act has been repealed and the police has flouted government cut backs and employed thousands of staff, which amazingly seems to have been overlooked by public sector bashing press, just so they can read my text messages to my mates. I feel violated. They’re probably blue lighting it round here now as they read what I’m writing in real time so I’d better get out of here quick smart.
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I was against the ICloud from the start, anyone who is stupid enough to have fragile information stored “out there,” for anyone to access without permission, deserves whatever happens to them. Use your brain people. I have my information, pictures etc stored on an external drive and use manual old fashioned diaries for scheduling. Whilst the majority of you consider all this modern technology amazing, it also has it’s risks, think before you use it.
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These people who says if you have not got anything to hide Is stupid, so they have your appointments your out they can break into your home it only takes one creepy stalker and anything could happen to you or your family
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Well, what’d ya know! Conspiracy Theorists right. . . . AGAIN!
Anyone seeing a pattern here?
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That’s not what cloud computing is about at all silly
– Colin78, high Wycombe bucks, 18/5/2012 12:43
Actually, deep down inside, that is exactly what “cloud” is all about. It’s about using a grand “cloud” of corporate owned and operated servers to store your data on and being able to connect to and interface with that data from any connectable device in any location.
The cloud is not free, the cloud costs money to build and maintain, thus the cloud is big business. The cloud may be run by a corporation or it may be run by some government. The best part about the cloud is you’re never really sure who has it, where it’s stored, or what the local laws governing it are. I’m sure China loves the idea of westerners using cloud computing with servers hosted in China.
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