If someone can compromise any app that they know you use and update it then the compromised app can copy the key and send it to an outside server without you knowing
First the third party app would have to figure out how to read the private keys from the Secure Element which there haven't been any reports of being hacked in over 5 years.
Yes my iPhone contains the private key. Apple doesn't have it.If I turn off iCloud backup --- something I would do if I were worried about hiding from the government. I'm not aware of any untethered jailbreaks that have come out in the last few years -- meaning someone would first have to have physical access to my phone and then unlock it -- after 10 attempts it is not only erased, the private key used to decrypt the local data is erased.
Every company Apple, Alphabet (Google), Samsung will cooperate with law enforcement.
If Apple (and I assume Google) don't possess the private keys that are used to encrypt the messages and only facilitate the exchange of public keys, how can they cooperate with law enforcement even if they wanted to?
The only purpose I could see for wanting FF on iOS that has to use WebKit and doesn't support native content blockers would be syncing bookmarks. You can sync bookmarks from FF or Chrome for Windows by using Apple's iCloud extension for Chrome and FF.
They were "caught"? Since when has it been an industry secret that platform owners give incentives to publishers for exclusives? Google is not exactly struggling, it could easily do the same.
The Intel of 2015 still has a very solid competitor eating into its profits: the Intel of 2010-13. I am typing this on a 2600K I bought in 2011, and I have no intention of upgrading any time soon. I have went from 8 GB of RAM to 16 GB, from a 128 GB SSD to a 480 GB SSD, and I upgraded my monitor setup. But my desktop processor is still more than twice as fast as my 4300U work laptop, which I never worry about being slow. I wouldn't be that surprised if this processor lasts me until 2020, unless it stops working before then.
It can go back much further than that for most people.
My computers that are still in use at least once a week...
2006 - Mac Mini 1.66Ghz Core Duo 2GB of RAM - Apple abandoned it years ago but I installed Windows 7 on it and still runs Chrome and Office well enough for my parents.
2006 - Sony Vaio Core Duo 2GB of RAM - upgraded to Windows 7, used by my son for Office, MineCraft and some simple Flash games.
2008 - Dell Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz, 4GB of RAM, one of the last 1920x1200 displays, it's fast and runs a complete development stack relatively fast.
2009 - Dell laptop Dual Core Pentium, 4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive. The battery is crap, and it's heavy, but the screen resolution is 1600x900 and it's good enough for everything I need it for.
2012 - Gateway 3.33Ghz Core i3 6Gb RAM. I don't see any reason for upgrading this for the foreseeable future. It''s mostly used for Plex, occasional personal development projects, and office.
Physical media doesn't last forever either. Try to buy a laserdisc player in an electronics store, if your laserdiscs haven't already failed from oxidization.
With physical media, I can rip it to my computer and store it redundantly.
Telco update deployment is a red herring. I can just wander over the Nexus download page and grab a new system image for any Nexus device, and I don't need my carrier's permission. What prevents Samsung from doing the same? Perhaps they made deals with carriers not to provide you the updates directly? In which case, how is that anyone's fault but their own, and why would you want to make excuses for that customer-fucking behavior?
Wow, grab a new system image that erases your phone and all of its contents and only the apps will be restored but not the data for the apps......
The biggest game for the Sega Nomad [wikipedia.org] was probably Capcom's Super Street Fighter II, at 5 MB. The biggest executable for Apple's tvOS is 40 times that according to the summary, and that's even before the game downloads its asset pack on first launch.
You end up with a load of background updater processes wasting resources at all times, so they end up getting turned off
That's not true for Apple's update. It creates a scheduled task for Windows Task Manager. Windows Task Manager launches the update checker I believe once every 24 hours. The updated is not constantly in memory.
Personally, I don't keep iTunes up to date on my Windows PC because I never use it. I back up my phone using iCloud, pictures automatically get downloaded to my computer using the iCloud control panel, etc.
That actually fits into my observations of industry - do something right and you get optimized out of a job.
I don't see that as a problem. If I automated something so well to increase efficiency and lower cost, I see that as a career success that I could easily sell as a talking point at my next interview.
Like they say at Netflix, a company is like a pro sports team, not a family. For instance, I'm sure all of the engineers who got laid off at Netflix when they moved everything to AWS wont have a problem getting a job.
So just because web pages work well for someone who recently spent $600 and up on a phone doesn't mean that it's not worth optimising them.
It's not just comparing a state of the art iPhone 6s to an old Android phone. The top of the line Galaxy S6 performs worse than the 2011 iPhone 5 when running JavaScript.
To give you an idea of how divergent it has become, try:
http://emberperf.eviltrout.com... Complex list Ember 1.11 This is the benchmark most representative of Discourse performance, and the absolute best known Android score for this benchmark is right at ~400ms on a Samsung Galaxy S6. That doesn't seem too bad until you compare..
iPhone 5 â' 340ms iPhone 5s â' 175ms iPhone 6 â' 140ms iPad Air 2 â' 120ms iPhone 6s â' 60-70ms In a nutshell, the fastest known Android device available today -- and there are millions of Android devices much slower than that out there -- performs 5Ã-- slower than a new iPhone 6s, and a little worse than a 2012 era iPhone 5 in Ember. How depressing.
This isn't a case of having resistors or capacitors from different manufacturers, something that won't affect performance in any measurable way, this is a case of having two completely different CPUs, with very different performance from the two. 6h vs. 8h in a power-consumption test is a huge, huge difference.
If Apple advertises the iPhone based on the worse case and you just happen to get one with slightly better specs, how is Apple being dishonest?
Nearly 4 years is way beyond the reasonable lifespan for a phone. Upgrade. Personally, I like a new one at least every year.
Please tell me that you are being sarcastic. The iPad 2 circa mid 2011 can run iOS 9. So that means it will be supported most likely at least until around September 2016.
In short, to install this malware - 1) You need to install the mobile provisioning certificate - a web page cannot do it, as the user must tap "OK" to actually install it. A user can list and view such provisioning certificates at will. They self-expire after a year.
It's even harder to accidentally install enterprise certificates in iOS 9.
"(As noted above, the new iOS 9 requires users to manually set related provisioning profile as trusted in Settings before they can install Enterprise provisioned apps. This new feature is also helpful for preventing some security incidents caused by abusing enterprise certificates.)"
Any device that is compatible with iOS 8 is also compatible with iOS 9.
Android phones are not driven in obsolescence by a team at Apple who urges developers to move onto the new API as soon as possible. So the App Store doesn't stop having current apps for Android phones for much, much longer than with Apple. Look at the number of current-version apps you can still get to run on a KitKat phone, and compare that to the apps you can get for a 3G iOS device today.
Xcode 6 supports iOS back to 6.0. That includes every iPad introduced except the first one and every iPhone introduced since the 3GS in 2009.
How many developers would waste time trying to support the iPhone or iPhone 3G - both had 128MB of RAM and a 400Ghz single CÃte processor.
First, bringing up the computer store is a red herring. The store where you buy your phone has nothing to do with it.
The store where you bought your computer is analogous to the carrier. You have to wait for both your manufacturer and your carrier to offer an update to your phone. This is true with even some Nexus devices. You had to wait for Verizon to update their version of the Nexus.
Second, if you bought a phone from a carrier that doesn't unlock your devices, that's your fuckup, similar to if you bought a device that the manufacturer would not unlock. Don't be a fuckup.
Your phone being unlocked by the carrier still doesn't mean you don't have to wait on the carrier and the manufacturer to update your device.
Third, Apple makes it effectively impossible to support their abandoned devices, at least with some Android devices it is possible.
It's possible to jailbreak every iPhone that has been abandoned by Apple. The latest iPhone that is not supported is the iPhone 4 released in 2010.
They do if they are running Windows XP and are unwilling to pay for a newer version of the OS. Android users may or may not get an update, but their updates are free.
So it's better to not have the option to update your OS than to have the option to pay for it? If you bought a computer with Windows 7 or Windows 8, Windows 10 and is a free upgrade.
In other words, every Windows conputer sold since before the introduction of Android is eligible for a free upgrade.
In order to use an iOS device as one would a normal computer, with freedom to choose software, one has to hack their way into it.
I've never had to wait on my PC manufacturer nor the computer store to update my computer with the latest OS or security patches the way that Android users have to wait on both the OEM and carrier to update their OS. That's far from what a "normal computer" user expects.
If one is going to do that, why not just get a Nexus device? It will get updates for around as long as an iDevice, and you can also load alternate ROMs onto it.
iOS 9 supports the iPhone 4s released in September 2011. Does Google still support the Nexus released in 2011?
"Loading alternate ROMs" isn't that "hacking your way into it?" "normal computer" users don't have to "load alternative" operating systems to get security updates.
Trump could care less about H1B Visas. He is denigrating illegal Mexican immigrants who are supposedly taking American jobs and raping our women to appeal to the ignorant redneck wing of the Republican party,
Google sells an OS to the phone manufacturers who customize who then sell it to the carriers who customize it some more who then sell it to the users. Google can't do shit to that chain. Mindbogglingly, it's actually what they wanted.
Microsoft sells an OS to computer manufacturers who customize it and they sometimes sell them to resellers who further customize it (i.e. Best Buy). Guess what? When Microsoft provides a security update, I don't wait on Dell or Best Buy for the patch.
When MS releases a new OS, they take responsible for creating drivers for the most common hardware. I was able to install Windows 7 on my old abandoned 2006 Core Duo Mac Mini without waiting on Apple to provide drivers.
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First the third party app would have to figure out how to read the private keys from the Secure Element which there haven't been any reports of being hacked in over 5 years.
Yes my iPhone contains the private key. Apple doesn't have it.If I turn off iCloud backup --- something I would do if I were worried about hiding from the government. I'm not aware of any untethered jailbreaks that have come out in the last few years -- meaning someone would first have to have physical access to my phone and then unlock it -- after 10 attempts it is not only erased, the private key used to decrypt the local data is erased.
If Apple (and I assume Google) don't possess the private keys that are used to encrypt the messages and only facilitate the exchange of public keys, how can they cooperate with law enforcement even if they wanted to?
Since Google can update Chrome for Android without requiring the OEM's and the carriers, it's not as bad as most Android security vulnerabilities.
The only purpose I could see for wanting FF on iOS that has to use WebKit and doesn't support native content blockers would be syncing bookmarks. You can sync bookmarks from FF or Chrome for Windows by using Apple's iCloud extension for Chrome and FF.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
https://chrome.google.com/webs...
My bookmarks are synced between FF and Chrome for Windows, Safari for iOS and Chrome for iOS.
They were "caught"? Since when has it been an industry secret that platform owners give incentives to publishers for exclusives? Google is not exactly struggling, it could easily do the same.
It can go back much further than that for most people.
My computers that are still in use at least once a week...
2006 - Mac Mini 1.66Ghz Core Duo 2GB of RAM - Apple abandoned it years ago but I installed Windows 7 on it and still runs Chrome and Office well enough for my parents.
2006 - Sony Vaio Core Duo 2GB of RAM - upgraded to Windows 7, used by my son for Office, MineCraft and some simple Flash games.
2008 - Dell Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz, 4GB of RAM, one of the last 1920x1200 displays, it's fast and runs a complete development stack relatively fast.
2009 - Dell laptop Dual Core Pentium, 4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive. The battery is crap, and it's heavy, but the screen resolution is 1600x900 and it's good enough for everything I need it for.
2012 - Gateway 3.33Ghz Core i3 6Gb RAM. I don't see any reason for upgrading this for the foreseeable future. It''s mostly used for Plex, occasional personal development projects, and office.
With physical media, I can rip it to my computer and store it redundantly.
Wow, grab a new system image that erases your phone and all of its contents and only the apps will be restored but not the data for the apps......
That's not the Nomad they were talking about.....
http://slashdot.org/story/01/1...
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
That's not true for Apple's update. It creates a scheduled task for Windows Task Manager. Windows Task Manager launches the update checker I believe once every 24 hours. The updated is not constantly in memory.
Personally, I don't keep iTunes up to date on my Windows PC because I never use it. I back up my phone using iCloud, pictures automatically get downloaded to my computer using the iCloud control panel, etc.
Why not get an iPad? They don't have to worry about viruses, or system corruption.
I don't see that as a problem. If I automated something so well to increase efficiency and lower cost, I see that as a career success that I could easily sell as a talking point at my next interview.
Like they say at Netflix, a company is like a pro sports team, not a family. For instance, I'm sure all of the engineers who got laid off at Netflix when they moved everything to AWS wont have a problem getting a job.
It's not just comparing a state of the art iPhone 6s to an old Android phone. The top of the line Galaxy S6 performs worse than the 2011 iPhone 5 when running JavaScript.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/t...
If Apple advertises the iPhone based on the worse case and you just happen to get one with slightly better specs, how is Apple being dishonest?
Mac users haven't had a problem with software support outside of games for almost 10 years.
What Microsoft technology? IOS works just as well with Exchange via ActiveSync.
On an unrelated note, I find it ridiculous that while the standard Mail program in the Mac has built in Exchange support, Windows doesn't.
Please tell me that you are being sarcastic. The iPad 2 circa mid 2011 can run iOS 9. So that means it will be supported most likely at least until around September 2016.
It's even harder to accidentally install enterprise certificates in iOS 9.
http://researchcenter.paloalto...
Any device that is compatible with iOS 8 is also compatible with iOS 9.
Xcode 6 supports iOS back to 6.0. That includes every iPad introduced except the first one and every iPhone introduced since the 3GS in 2009.
How many developers would waste time trying to support the iPhone or iPhone 3G - both had 128MB of RAM and a 400Ghz single CÃte processor.
The store where you bought your computer is analogous to the carrier. You have to wait for both your manufacturer and your carrier to offer an update to your phone. This is true with even some Nexus devices. You had to wait for Verizon to update their version of the Nexus.
Your phone being unlocked by the carrier still doesn't mean you don't have to wait on the carrier and the manufacturer to update your device.
It's possible to jailbreak every iPhone that has been abandoned by Apple. The latest iPhone that is not supported is the iPhone 4 released in 2010.
So it's better to not have the option to update your OS than to have the option to pay for it? If you bought a computer with Windows 7 or Windows 8, Windows 10 and is a free upgrade.
In other words, every Windows conputer sold since before the introduction of Android is eligible for a free upgrade.
Yes because the alternative is allowing multiple companies to use the same radio frequency. What could possibly go wrong?
I've never had to wait on my PC manufacturer nor the computer store to update my computer with the latest OS or security patches the way that Android users have to wait on both the OEM and carrier to update their OS. That's far from what a "normal computer" user expects.
Trump could care less about H1B Visas. He is denigrating illegal Mexican immigrants who are supposedly taking American jobs and raping our women to appeal to the ignorant redneck wing of the Republican party,
Microsoft sells an OS to computer manufacturers who customize it and they sometimes sell them to resellers who further customize it (i.e. Best Buy). Guess what? When Microsoft provides a security update, I don't wait on Dell or Best Buy for the patch.
When MS releases a new OS, they take responsible for creating drivers for the most common hardware. I was able to install Windows 7 on my old abandoned 2006 Core Duo Mac Mini without waiting on Apple to provide drivers.