Plus Peggy Noonan on Steve Jobs, and Facebook subpoena guidelines A quick burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Apple took 3+ years to fix FinFisher Trojan hole > > Krebs on Security “The Wall Street Journal this week ran an excellent series on government surveillance tools in the digital age. One story looked at FinFisher, a remote spying Trojan that was marketed to the governments of Egypt, Germany and other nations to permit surreptitious PC and mobile phone surveillance by law enforcement officials. The piece noted that FinFisher’s creators advertised the ability to deploy the Trojan disguised as an update for Apple’s iTunes media player, and that Apple last month fixed the vulnerability that the Trojan leveraged.” ….But it took 1200 days to do so, having been warned of the hole in 2008

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