'Snoopgate': Apple says threat notifications may be false alarms, not attributable to specific state-sponsored attackers
1 year, 1 month ago

'Snoopgate': Apple says threat notifications may be false alarms, not attributable to specific state-sponsored attackers

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“State- State- Furthermore, Apple clarified, “State- As reliable and useful as Apple’s threat notifications are, Apple maintains, that it is “possible that some Apple threat notifications may be false alarms, or that some attacks are not detected.” And there is a very good reason for that. Apple believes that if they are to provide information about what causes them to issue threat notifications, it may help state- Apple also clarified, the state- How it all started Opposition party leaders including Congress’ Shashi Tharoor, Priyanka Chaturvedi of the Shiv Sena, AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi and Trinamool Congress’ Mahua Moitra posted screenshots of the message received on their phones which read, “Apple believes you are being targeted by state- Mahua Moitra shared a tweet containing screenshots of an alert sent by Apple, which carried the ominous title, “Your iPhone may be under the scrutiny of state- Following this several other Opposition leaders started sharing that Apple had sent them similar notifications. Shashi Tharoor took to Twitter to express his thoughts on an email received from an Apple ID, [email protected], which he personally verified for authenticity. He humorously remarked that it was reassuring to witness government officials with less workload keeping themselves occupied at the expense of taxpayers like himself.

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