[x87678r]

I'm pretty sure anything in the app store is crackable.

[rolph]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinFisher

<< FinFisher malware is installed in various ways, including fake software updates, emails with fake attachments, and security flaws in popular software. Sometimes the surveillance suite is installed after the target accepts installation of a fake update to commonly used software.[2] Code which will install the malware has also been detected in emails.[17] The software, which is designed to evade detection by antivirus software, has versions which work on mobile phones of all major brands .>>

no backdoor is needed when a users behaviour will let you in. it helps greatly when the service provider co-operates

[burrows]

What argument are you making?

Putting something into the App Store somehow makes the app itself vulnerable?

Or, the App Store tends to attract already vulnerable software?

[x87678r]

Probably both. If the NSA thought it unbreakable, the app would not be easily available to the public.

[burrows]

An iOS backdoor is the way to go. Otherwise the NSA has to monitor an endless cycle of new apps.

[sudosysgen]

Not if there is a backdoor added to all apps on the app store automatically.

[burrows]

Do you imagine this backdoor gives control over each application's execution or only retrieves data?