Snowden told about the surveillance of iPhone owners the British special services

Edward Snowden published in the German newspaper the new documents from the NSA (National Security Agency), who gave explanation of how the Central Government Service tracked the UK iPhone users without their consent.

As it turned out, in the DSP used are different from the NSA surveillance methods. If America used different firmware hacks, the British listened to their goals with the help of the serial number.

DSP can even upload the user data if the phone is connected to the infected computer.

In November 2010, the Government Service issued a report stating that the serial number allows the organization to "follow the device that synchronized with an infected computer, view the data surf the web with Safari hack and transmit data on the advertising system such as AdMob.

Disclosure UDID iPhone helped establish DSP specific user, for which the required surveillance.

Due to the abuse and misuse of UDID, as well as security considerations, Apple in 2012 began to scan new tools for developers. Thus, they can collect and track the use of their applications on devices without resorting to the UDID.

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