“Cannes got headlines this morning,” Roger Friedman reports for Showbiz 411. “As Laura Poitras unveiled her Julian Assange doc called Risk.”
“Featured is Lady Gaga interviewing Assange with a small camera for personal use,” Friedman reports. “[Big] revelation that Wikileaks warned Apple that iTunes could be used as a backdoor for spies to infiltrate computers and phones.”
“Poitras as with Citizen Four, her film about Edward Snowden, continues to be a cutting edge political filmmaker with unusual access,” Friedman reports. “In Risk we see the backstage of Wikileaks and it’s fascinating.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: This is not a new revelation. It was reported way back in December 2011 and any reasonable person would assume that Apple closed the backdoor to which Assange refers a long time ago.
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Wikileak’s Assange warns of Apple iTunes spy portal – December 2, 2011
A reasonable company would have certainly closed that backdoor after being warned. An astute company would not have designed the backdoor in the first place. Well, nobody’s perfect.
To anybody who’s around Joe: please offer your assistance in changing his diaper, as he’s obviously getting irritable again.
Rather than assuming, does anyone know when/if Apple closed said back door?