Apple's newest operating system might feature a mechanism against the U.S. government's National Security Agency's spying program.
According to RT, Stanford University computer science doctoral student Jonathan Mayer stated Apple's OS X Mavericks platform features an upgrade that'll make personal data more difficult to obtain.
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"Nice: Apple Contacts vulnerability is patched in OS X Mavericks. Broken plaintext sync with Google has vanished," tweeted Mayer, accompanied by an image from the new operating system by the Cupertino-based organization.
"The speculation seems to be that this is one of the ways in which the NSA was able to collect Google address book information," said Mayer to The Huffington Post. "Certainly to the extent the NSA was doing simple keyword searches on the content of unencrypted Web traffic."
Mayer's findings come a week after The Washington Post reported the NSA collected hundreds of millions of contact lists from the Web. Although the NSA stated it only focuses on foreigners, Edward Snowden revealed average Americans' data were also harvested.
Apple has not issued a comment on the matter.
As Latinos Post reported, a report stated the Cupertino organization is able to read an Apple device's iMessage. Apple was quick to respond on the allegation.
"iMessage is not architected to allow Apple to read messages," Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller told AllThingsD. "The research discussed theoretical vulnerabilities that would require Apple to re-engineer the iMessage system to exploit it, and Apple has no plans or intentions to do so."
Nice: Apple Contacts vulnerability is patched in OS X Mavericks. Broken plaintext sync with Google has vanished. https://t.co/pky7VgcNZC
— Jonathan Mayer (@jonathanmayer) October 22, 2013
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