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"Worst-case, your 7 year old smart TV someday connects to a 5G network without your permission, gets bricked by hackers"

Worst case? You lack imagination friend.

Worst case hackers grab it via shodan etc; and turn it into a cryptocoin miner, so it cranks at full cpu usage 24x7 on you, while they allocate the rest of the available flash storage on it (since it needs to be able to download new apps and app updates) to serve child porn, while using the built in camera and mic (it came with skype video calls as it one of its apps...); to stream your living room out to creeps and wierdos...

Some of those TVs will belong to attractive women. Some to people with young kids. Some will be in bedrooms. .... they tie the feed up to rudimentary AI to peek in now and again and flag interesting TVs / interesting content (for whatever value of interesting you care to apply.)

Then when someone sends your daughter a link to her live cam performance... you'll eventually join a class action lawsuit and collect a $45.08 settlement another decade after that.

Meanwhile your new TV is just as bad.

Really the smart TVs are *already* that bad; but they're safely behind quality consumer NAT routers from linksys and netgear... that are 7 years old with documented unpatched exploits.

Meanwhile... it's already been demonstrated... welcome to the future... 6 years ago.
https://www.iclarified.com/325...

Folks, before you mindlessly type your rant about the loss of a headphone jack: Things like this adapter are going to be everywhere - and include lots of market competition. Your 3.5mm jack will appear like a "dumb" phone in the blink of an eye. Remember, we have 6.5mm to 3.5in adapters for some of us, USB adapters for others, adapters for onboard-mic headsets, etc. This is just another in a long line of slight refinements on an idea. The 3.5mm connector itself is a changed standard. Think of video - we have countless adapters for generations of video, including proprietary nonsense from several companies, include Apple. Most people aren't going to care.

1. Javascript benchmarks. They should be outlawed, period. They test the software (browser) more than the CPU. Also they are probably single threaded or close to be.

2. On-screen 3D game benchmarks. Because they favor phones with low-res display such as iPhones.

None of the benchmarks in TFA even consider RAM size and flash memory speed, which both have real-world benefits.

I'm sure that ALL of these benchmarks are done by Apple shills.

Right.

Oh, and whiner, I found this and this about the memory subsystem in the iPhone 6s. Glad you asked!

especially since they don't make a left-handed one

Doh!

http://www.iclarified.com/4377...

This may be the backdoor known as DROPOUTJEEP, which was described in some Snowden-leaked documents last year.

Looks like Apple sold out, put in a backdoor, and then lied about it.

Yeah. Or the guy who wrote that is either a moron or a jerkass, and completely ignored some important info given. Like the fact that DROPOUT.JEEP was actually the codename for a wired jailbreak for the first iPhone that NSA had to develop themselves. It's not like that info is hard to gain once you strip out the boasting and bullshit bingo from the l33t NSA haX0r slide.

This may be the backdoor known as DROPOUTJEEP, which was described in some Snowden-leaked documents last year.

Looks like Apple sold out, put in a backdoor, and then lied about it.

Apple lied?

Say it ain't so!

What's next? Spout some inane meaningless marketing babble to the masses about not being evil?

This may be the backdoor known as DROPOUTJEEP, which was described in some Snowden-leaked documents last year.

Looks like Apple sold out, put in a backdoor, and then lied about it.

You're wrong, it was explicitly the reason

The explicit reason given. I'm sure the $308K in donations Obama received from Apple in 2012 had nothing to do with it...

He bailed out Apple in order to "preserve the market" or some such claptrap. How is treating Samsung differently remotely consistent here?

Because one is a patent on a non-standard user interface, and the other is a patent on a standard radio technology. Because the owner of former did not agree to let others use the technology, while the owner of the latter voluntarily said "yes, everyone can use this technology and I will not exert undue pressure or attempt to get injunctions against you, and will instead accept a reasonable monetary royalty."

The subtleties of the two bans don't really matter since that wasn't the stated reason for giving Apple a free ride last time around.

You're wrong, it was explicitly the reason:

"The Policy Statement expresses substantial concerns, which I strongly share, about the potential harms that can result from owners of standards-essential patents ("SEPs") who have made a voluntary commitment to offer to license SEPs on terms that are fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory ("FRAND"), gaining undue leverage and engaging in "patent hold-up", i.e., asserting the patent to exclude an implementer of the standard from a market to obtain a higher price for use of the patent than would have been possible before the standard was set, when alternative technologies could have been chosen."

Flaming hypocrisy.

Of course getting near the presidency will ensure that your candidate is just like any other corrupt white guy regardless of whether your candidate is black or a woman. No one should ever had any delusions in that regard.

I don't think Apple would make these claims (without anyone asking no less) if they weren't true. If they were storing this data, they would have been quiet about it, don't you think?

No, I don't think so. I don't have any reason to trust Apple, and you shouldn't either. You have to realize that you don't have the whole story when an agency like the NSA refers to Apple as "Big Brother".

You are aware that they used Apple in the presentation because at that time nobody used Android? Heck, they talk about the "new" iOS 4 in that presentation

I don't think Apple would make these claims (without anyone asking no less) if they weren't true. If they were storing this data, they would have been quiet about it, don't you think?

No, I don't think so. I don't have any reason to trust Apple, and you shouldn't either. You have to realize that you don't have the whole story when an agency like the NSA refers to Apple as "Big Brother". If the NSA thinks Apple is Big Brother and its customers are zombies, then why would you put any level of trust into Apple to not use your personal data however they please? Both Apple and the NSA know that Apple's customers don't care about things like that, what they care about is owning the newest Apple device, regardless of what that entails. Apple can quietly push out any update they want and people won't care once it leaves the news cycle.

It's like a blend of 1984 and Brave New World. Just like 1984 they will be monitoring you through your real life telescreen but like Brave New World it won't actually be forbidden not to have one, but the people will no longer have the motivation to think or act outside what they were indoctrinated to do.

I know Slashdot has a really low bar for +5 insightful for comments related to 'M$', but you're really making up things here. Windows Phone has the highest customer satisfaction numbers.

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-phone-tops-in-user-satisfaction

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=20980

http://windowsphonenetwork.com/2012/03/pcmags-readers-choice-awards-windows-phone/

Even Siri was answering that the Nokia Windows Phone was the best cellphone ever before Apple shut it down and replaced it with a joke.

And people who could actually correct you have long past left in disgust at the extreme circlejerk inborn retardation on this site.

I have my phone set to autowipe itself after 10 wrong passcode attempts. Does this avoid that auto deletion? Because someone doing it by hand would trigger that and the phone would theoretically wipe itself. (Not tested, but it will start to make dire warnings about wiping the device after several failures.)

I doubt this tool will trigger the autowipe. For the iOS device they are using DFU mode to access the device which bypasses pretty much everything. They are loading some custom code into the device and then executing it to get the passcode. See Jonathan Zdziarski's book on iPhone Forensics for details on how to do this without corrupting a defendant's system in the process. Fortunately apple provides a small, secondary amount of storage that you can load some code into and execute without touching the primary storage. I chose not to link to Zdziarski's book because at this point it is mostly out of date.

Download the purplera1n tool and then unlock using ultraSnow using the guide here: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=4253

The only problem with this hack is that Winterboard still doesn't work. For that you will want to wait until the iPhone Dev Team releases their updates. The Dev team STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you obtain your IBEC/IBSS files and described on http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/133799347/your-3gs-temporary-solution with a windows tutorial here: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=4399

This program found here http://difrnt.com/blog/?p=25 will automatically copy the files out of the Windows Temp Directory when you do the restore on your iPhone in order to get the device. You don't need to perform a regular restore, just a DFU restore in order to obtain you iBEC and iBSS files (the guide tells you to restore once, normally, then once in DFU mode).

Download the purplera1n tool and then unlock using ultraSnow using the guide here: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=4253

The only problem with this hack is that Winterboard still doesn't work. For that you will want to wait until the iPhone Dev Team releases their updates. The Dev team STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you obtain your IBEC/IBSS files and described on http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/133799347/your-3gs-temporary-solution with a windows tutorial here: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=4399

This program found here http://difrnt.com/blog/?p=25 will automatically copy the files out of the Windows Temp Directory when you do the restore on your iPhone in order to get the device. You don't need to perform a regular restore, just a DFU restore in order to obtain you iBEC and iBSS files (the guide tells you to restore once, normally, then once in DFU mode).

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http://tech.yahoo.com/gd/using-smart-folders-in-mac-os-x/153429
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=172
http://www.macworld.com/article/60386/2007/10/handcode.html