{"id":10881,"date":"2017-03-08T17:42:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T01:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/episode-596-hacking-the-iphone-for-fun-profit-and-maybe-espionage\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T01:42:21","slug":"episode-596-hacking-the-iphone-for-fun-profit-and-maybe-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/episode-596-hacking-the-iphone-for-fun-profit-and-maybe-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 596: Hacking The iPhone For Fun, Profit, And Maybe Espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This episode first ran in <\/em>2015<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>contains explicit language.<\/em><\/p>\n

Every time there is a big new release of some software, an operating system or a new browser, hackers get to work. Each new release is the start of a race because there are all these giant players who desperately want to find the new flaw in the software.<\/p>\n

For the people who find these flaws, there’s money to be made. But it’s not just hackers looking for these glitches. Wikileaks released documents<\/a> showing how the C.I.A. uses different software tools and techniques to break into phones, computers, and Internet-connected televisions.<\/p>\n

Today on the show, the story of one man who stumbled on a flaw in Apple’s operating system, a way to hack the phone you might have in your hands right now.<\/p>\n

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