content: He was a sub-contractor that worked with the NSA. He had some crazy clearance level because he was working on their internal systems. That was a few years ago, but I'm pretty sure someone with his knowledge would have a pretty solid idea of what is secure and what isn't. It's still up to the reader to decide if they believe him, but I tend to. It just seems crazy that people don't automatically assume all stock software have exploits. Hell, even the iPhone has an obvious brute force tactic. If the phone erases all data after 10 password attempts, it's just a matter of cloning the device as many times as it takes to brute-force it. With the right hardware (the kind of stuff the fbi/nsa have access to) I believe it's possible to clone the phone onto a virtual machine, maybe even with many VM's running parallel, and use the same tactic without the cost of a bunch of phone hardware.