is it possible to have a remote user on your iphone if you never set on up?

A number of things clued me in to the probability of Lawful Intercept interfering with my device:

*The most telling incident happened an hour or so after I updated to 9.3.5. Somehow the name under settings>general>about changed from "Rebecca's iPhone" to "TOP Station 2's iPhone"

*'Pegasus' is on my device. Pegasus is sold to law enforcement agencies and the like. Not the public.

* They accidentally sent to my voicemail a recorded conversation between myself and two other people.

* all of my accounts have been hacked, yet none of my money has been stolen or used.

* and one other thing that happened at 3 am today - something that I don't care to disclose - confirmed it.

* IP addresses in my diagnostics logs trace back to the DoD network information center in Columbus OH.

* Entries in my diagnostics include: 'gas-gauge meter' (iodb2 device), fingerprint storage and enrollment info, cellular LacTac Change logs, FUD state entries, RATs, bird, Pegasus...

I can keep going with the list of symptoms and manifestations for quite a while, but off the top of my head those are the ones that relate to surviellance and L.I.

I am in the same situation as all of you. I have had 6 iPhones since Feb 2011 and NOBODY can help me. I've talked to Apple Care 100 times, Apple store, my cellular providers, IT guys, my ISP's, the state police and the attorney general. I have gained contact people at Apple but they always end up failing me in the end. The best place to start if you REALLY want to know what these logs mean, is iOS Developer Library. ANYTHING to do with developers is where your answers are, regardless of Apple, Microsoft, etc. It is the MOST FRUSTRATING thing I've ever been through because I KNOW there are people that can help and know this stuff and I just DO NOT understand why the cries for help are ignored! I LOVE my iphone, but instead of enjoying all of its features, I shut most of it down and use my phone to do IT research so I can someday stop this MONSTER that might as well live with me for how much of my personal life they invade. I've been at this for 2 1/2yrs...it's not just our mobile devices in my case, they hack every computer I buy, every company I switch to, I can't stop them....YET! Some of the posts above I scanned through and recognize 3/4 of what I see. I would be more than happy to help anyone with what I have learned, but I am no expert....if I was, I wouldn't still have a creeper! :) good luck to all of you!

I have had this problem a year now and Apple just resets the phone and tells me iPhones don't get hacked, but they never answer any of my questions about the proof I have. Verizon had 1 person find where my phone was being accessed remotely, but when he couldn't disable that he transferred me to higher level tech with the same response everyone gives... iPhones don't get hacked. Apple is not spelled GOD, Apple isn't perfect and has many flaws mainly hearing real concerns.

Is there a program or anything you suggest to remove the unauthorized remote super user?

There is no remote superuser unless your phone is jailbroken. And to jailbreak it requires physical possession of the phone, AND its screen has to be unlocked.

If your phone is not jailbroken it has not been hacked. That is a fact.

Yes I am going through a very similar situation and everyone thought I was crazy but turns out that I was right and capable of proving it finally after months of losing my mind! I am hacked. On every device I own. Even my fire stick.

I cannot see your email address but I would LOVE to discuss all of this with you. I have had these same problems for almost two years and need help... People do not understand because they do not understand how someone can have such access to your devices and well that is easy if it is your spouse that is the perpetrator... Please email me @ *******
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Sarah Watkins wrote:

I cannot see your email address but I would LOVE to discuss all of this with you. I have had these same problems for almost two years and need help... People do not understand because they do not understand how someone can have such access to your devices and well that is easy if it is your spouse that is the perpetrator... Please email me @ *******
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Accessing your device is not easy if you have the passcode enabled. Even the FBI was stymied by that. If your Apple ID passcode is something that your spouse knows or would find easy to guess, they would be able to access a lot of your information, some of which is also on your phone.

Put a 6-digit passcode on your phone. Change your Apple ID passcode to something that other people would find difficult to guess and then enable two-factor authentication on the account. Your spouse will not longer be able to access anything on your phone.

The solution is to restore iOS using iTunes and set up the phone as NEW. Make sure you are the only user of your iCloud account, which you can do simply by changing your password at https://appleid.apple.com.

I have tried restoring my iPhone to new many times and changing my password and using 2 factor authorization. Yet, there is still weird stuff happening with my phone.

I use the same laptop to restore it, could this be the problem?

Br3ndab wrote:

I have tried restoring my iPhone to new many times and changing my password and using 2 factor authorization. Yet, there is still weird stuff happening with my phone.

I use the same laptop to restore it, could this be the problem?

You should start your own thread. Explain what the "weird stuff" is. Do not post endless log files. Do not assume that the cause is a hacker. Just explain what's happening. You're far more likely to get the help you need that way.

Best of luck.

People-do you think that Apple really regulates the App Store apps? If it's a free app can you download it you are susceptible to whatever code is within that app. With the right commands executed remotely and with the right type of platform to execute the code it is absolutely possible that the remote user Tom other way into your iPhone and use steganography or other methods two completely compromise your apple iTunes account. What happens is this: once again access to your account they take every file in it or almost every file in it and slightly alter it with malicious code using steganography. Once this is backed up to the cloud, whenever you hook up to your account from whatever device you were on your essentially give them access to your phone and everything again they just wait for you to get back online. There are software in the program to use will have some sort of built-in signal to let them know you're active again. Do not be fooled but he claims that Apple software or their programs for the devices are on hack a bowl and that people are unable to gain access to your info. There are multiple multiple sources that are putting things on the Internet and creating sites with **** simply from sucking the files off of people's phones. People do not realize somebody out there created the code that makes your iPhone work those same people know how to get around it if they should stop working for Apple or sell their knowledge to someone else. Think about it if you're an anti virus company... Will it be in your best interest to create some sort of virus that you could essentially "provide the solution for?" I mean if these people are writing programs to illuminate now where do you think you'll be able to create it as well? There is no such thing as privacy and merely the illusion of it. I don't need time for any reason the camera in your phone the phone itself GPS location on the phone is on can be accessed by the NSA or any hacker with reasonable knowledge of computer science coding and commands. End of story. If you want to get really deep look up "steganography" and "gaining remote access to peoples computers" on google.

aluze44 wrote:

If you want to get really deep look up "steganography" and "gaining remote access to peoples computers" on google.

Steganography is a method of hiding messages in a larger file, usually a photograph. I can't find any information on using it to gain remote access to peoples's computers. Can you please provide a citation?

I'm afraid this is a useless thread, and the poster you responded to has been posting absolute nonsense about hacking phones and other conspiracy theories in other threads.

Suffice it to say that if the poster's allegations are true then the FBI wasted over $1 million hacking one phone. And that somehow the general and trade press has been bribed to not report the fact that iOS can be easily hacked by any script kiddie.

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I'm afraid this is a useless thread, and the poster you responded to has been posting absolute nonsense about hacking phones and other conspiracy theories in other threads.

There is something in me that has trouble letting a conspiracy rant stand unaddressed. I know I should be a better person than that.....

Conspiracy theories? Why dont you learn a bit and then come talk me. Using a mac and certain tools anything is possible. I encourage you to read up on some of whats contained within this link. Dont you have anything better to do if your not going to be helpful. Thank you Ma'am and have a nice day.

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