If the code You just wrote itself, you can never be quite sure that it is harmless, as already remarked Ken Thompson in 1984. More generally, this news reminds us of the computer code is always tricky, even the open source. Not by our own government," is the terse comment by John Gruber known blogger in the world Apple. You expect something from China or Russia. "I find it outrageous that the US spy agency is working actively against US companies, such as Apple and Microsoft. Experts felt by The Intercept are indeed doubtful about the legality of the operation.
What raises more concern is rather the fact that the CIA and the NSA have targeted one of the main companies of the United States (it was already the case with Microsoft and others). We know that the instrument was created, and then, but we are not certain of the fact that the App Store there are applications developed with it. There is no evidence, however, that these attack strategies have actually been completed, and it "remains unclear how the intelligence agencies would have meant that the developers were using the version of Xcode poisoned" reads the article by Scahill and then Begley. The published literature does not suggest, however, whether this research has led to concrete results or not. Was developing a system to break the encryption through an analysis of the activities of the Apple A4 processor, particularly in energy consumption. In this case the instrument of diffusion were updates of the same OS X. It was not however the only means of attack, because it is also the existence of a keylogger for OS X, the operating system of the Mac.
The news once again finds its origins in the secret documents of the NSA, the agency that developed the attack along with the CIA. This alternative version of the software has been designed to add backdoor application, unbeknownst to the programmer. The Central Intelligence Agency, explains Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley of The Intercept, has tried for years to develop and distribute a modified version of Xcode, the development tool for iOS applications. The CIA attempted an operation to spy on users' iPhone and iPad, and Apple indirectly.
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