Apple denies collaborating with the NSA

Manzana has never worked with the NSA to develop a back door in any of our products, including the iPhone “, reads the statement collected by Reuters, which continues to state that” we are not aware of this alleged program of the NSA which was aimed at our products ”.

This is the answer of Manzana to the news published by the German magazine Der Spiegel in which it was assured that the NSA It has a secret unit in charge of developing technology that allows spying on computers and mobile phones.

Moreover, according to the German magazine the program, called DROPOUJEEP, allows “infiltrations to extract data from the iPhone, like, for example, the contact list ”. According to Der Spiegel, the program is a kind of Trojan used by hackers to access protected systems.

The NSA It has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of said program, although it has assured that the use of technology has “foreign intelligence” objectives.

This is the last chapter of the leaks carried out by Edward Snowden, a former CIA agent, in which he explains what practices the company has carried out. United States National Security Agency and in which it has implicated numerous American technology companies. Manzana, like Yahoo, Google, Microsoft or Facebook, has denied on more than one occasion having participated in such practices.