According to a report in The Information, published yesterday, Apple has begun designing its own servers. Building own servers helps because the government agencies can intercept the hardware before it gets delivered to Apple. The Information notes that, The premier US digital spying agency, National Security Agency (NSA) is known to intercept and modify equipment (create backdoors) before it reaches the hands of its intended customers. Apple is now looking to pre-empt such an eventuality by hosting data on its own servers in encrypted format. Apple is not the only one, Google had earlier announced it would begin encrypting all data that travels through its data centers after information leaked that the NSA had tapped undersea cables to spy on Google’s data centers from the inside. Even Cisco has been a part of this spying cat and mouse game. Last year, Cisco’s security chief announced it purposefully shipped to fake locations to keep the NSA from targeting and intercepting its hardware. If at all the news is true, the US government is bound to take serious objections to Apple’s own encrypted servers and could force it through warrants to allow agency like NSA to spy on user communications like it did in San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone case.
