Does the iPhone have a built-in spyware module?

The underground hacker team "web-Hack" from Russia released a whitepaper with results of iPhone firmware research where they reverse-engineered embedded functions. They claim discovery of a built-in function which sends all data from an iPhone to a specified web-server. Contacts from a phonebook, SMS, recent calls, history of Safari browser - all your personal information - can be stolen. Researchers assume that this function either a debug feature or a built-in backdoor module for some government agencies. The reported function can be used by a trojan-developers or activated by AT&T. Remember, AT&T has already backdoored all Internet traffic traversing their infrastructure for the NSA.

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[benhocking]

It could be simply a way to have an automatic backup of your data if your iPhone fails. Of course, if there were the case, I suppose they would be touting it somewhere...

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