CIA spent last 10 years cracking Apple’s encryption

The CIA has been trying to crack Apple’s encryption for nearly 10 years.

According to a report by The Intercept, the CIA began trying to crack Apple’s encryption in 2006 using funds from the “black budget.”  The researchers who worked on breaking down Apple’s privacy wall were purportedly based at Sandia National Laboratories.

Although the report did expose the CIA’s effort, it did not tell us much about whether or not the agency succeeded in meeting their objectives.  What it did tell us was Apple became a big enough thorn in the eyes of these secretive agencies that they had to invest heavily to crack the privacy barrier put in place to protect consumers.