“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.”
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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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