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Apple's iOS 4 Hardware Encryption Cracked
adeelarshad82 writes "Russian company ElcomSoft is claiming to have cracked the 256-bit hardware encryption Apple uses to protect the data on iOS 4 devices, and is offering software that allows anyone to do it. ElcomSoft can now gain full access to what is stored on a gadget such as the iPhone 4. This includes historical information such as geolocation data, browsing history, call history, text messages and emails, usernames, and passwords."
Way to go ElcomSoft! Good to see hackers sticking it to the once hacker-originated Apple Computers Inc. Sad to see that Apple Computers has become another catholic church style entity.
Wow! Up your meds, dude!
Regardless of your platform choice, are you REALLY lauding the efforts of hackers whose efforts will not hurt Apple, but rather only the unfortunate users of their products?
What about the people who have been handed an iPhone/iPad by their employer? Do they deserved to be hacked, too?
Perhaps its time for you to head to the nearest psychologist/psychiatrist. What you are experiencing is commonly referred to "Misdirected Anger", and is usually a sign of some OTHER significant "perceived wrong" you have suffered.
Or perhaps, you're just an arrogant dick.
Apple doesn't actively prohibit "rooting" of their devices.
http://gizmodo.com/303171/apple-says-unlocked-iphones-will-brick-after-software-update-+-what-does-it-mean
Apple doesn't pursue the iOS "hacker" community with legal threats, DMCA takedown notices, etc.
http://news.cnet.com/apple-iphone-jailbreaking-violates-our-copyright/
Apple doesn't infest its products with an OS (Windows 7) that has DRM from the driver-level up.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/08/01/0421248/Mac-OS-X-Intel-Kernel-Uses-DRM
Palm trees and 8
quote fail