Mobile app downloads from the Apple Store have soared to 50 billion around the world, and a new survey of Australian users of the apps reveals that they expect the organisations offering the apps, as well as government, to be responsible for the security and protection of personal or financial data they collect.
According to Wikipedia a backdoor (or cryptosystem or algorithm) is a method of bypassing normal authentication, securing illegal local or remote access to a computer or network device while attempting to remain undetected. The backdoor may take the form an installed program (e.g., Back Orifice) or may subvert the system through a rootkit - or the manufacturer could have built in a hard coded user login and password to satisfy its own, or national security agency needs.
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