This post was made on 10/27/2018.
Many U.S. intelligence agencies have reported that the Chinese were eavesdropping on Trumps phone calls through his personal iPhone. He has two other phones for official use that have been altered by the NSA but he prefers to use his personal iPhone because it can hold contact information.
Now China responded to this statement by calling this claim “fake news” and then said if the U.S. is so worried about hacking then they should try a Huawei phone. This isn’t the first time China may have had its government help hackers access something. (You can read that article I wrote here.) It is also funny how Huawei, a Chinese device maker, is suggested for Trump to switch his phone to. It is also worth noting that Huawei phones have had security concerns that it may be reporting information to the Chinese government. Obviously China is being very smug with the U.S. and it’s no secret that Trump has been escalating trade tensions with the tariffs and China wants to get as much information as they can.
Individual unencrypted phones are not that hard to hack. If you know what your doing or know someone who knows what their doing, then you should easily be able to access that phone. But if China’s government had access to it then there’s a good chance other governments have had access to it as well. Who knows how many people have access to Trumps personal iPhone right now, it could be a lot of people or it could of been just China that managed to access his phone. One thing is for sure though, he should really be switching to the NSA approved phones for the safety of our country.
Sources:
Cyberleech 