Apple, RIM and Nokia have backdoors into their mobile operating systems made to the Indian government to give the opportunity to citizens to listen. That claim to be hackers on the basis of captured government documents.
The backdoors would be sitting in the software of Apple’s iOS, RIM’s BlackBerry OS, and unknown os from Nokia, probably S40. The Indian government makes active use of the built-in back doors in smartphones and mobile phones, according to a online military document. It is unclear whether other countries also can make use of by the manufacturers created backdoors for the phone user to spy.
The backdoors are necessary to make phones in India, as would appear from the document. India is thanks to the huge population and the growing interest in phones is one of the most important countries in the world for the release of phones. Earlier it was already clear that India pressure put on manufacturers such as Nokia and RIM. By spying on users must attacks in the country be prevented.
The leaking of the document has, according to ZDnet, the hack at Symantec, which already took place. In addition, given the Indian hackers also have military documents in his hands. The companies involved have not yet commented on the disclosure. Therefore, it is impossible to ascertain whether the document is authentic and whether the aforementioned backdoors exist.