Yeah but couldn't we try a dictionary first, plus I don't think people like inputting long passcodes on a selfphone.
I should really read up on this stuff but it's hard.
They could narrow stuff down a bit by carefully examining places where PWs are stored or things that are used for inspiration... except the dumb fucks already released the apartment and the landlord let the media in so the whole place is compromised.
The password could have been written on a post-it note on the fridge for all we know.
Though, these guys effectively destroyed two other phones and some hard drives, this iPhone is a third "work" phone used by one of them. It doesn't necessarily have any data on it, and the fact that it wasn't destroyed sort of implied it won't. The county (the employer) that issued the phone also failed to put any regular IT safeguards on it or they could have just gone that route.
Sitting here looking at my "your data got stolen from the government" OPM hack announcement letter and all this makes me certain the government shouldn't be trusted with a pointed stick, let alone a tool to unlock phones.
The FBI needs to go crawl back under their rock where they can effectively protect hillary fucking clinton from numerous felonies.
But think of it this way - if they didn't care, why did they go through all the trouble of the secure enclave? And to make it an extremely paranoid one at that - giving it the ultimate power to wipe the phone if attacked? (Error 53 is such an attack - perhaps a modified fingerprint sensor is trying to find a way to break the secure enclave code and allow it to run arbitrary code, allowing full access to the system without the system knowing. The secure enclave is paranoid as it should be). It's why later phones rely on it to do the 10 authentication attempts and wipe, and why the enclave enforces the delays between attempts.
"Caring" isn't needed. It makes economic sense to make the phones secure for two reasons 1) it sells more of them 2) it keeps Apple from having to work with every dumb little request from law enforcement about tookie and where he got the weed. Not to mention what the prop-up-it's-own-power surveillance-state will try to do "in secret."
There are probably MILLIONS of lawful (circumstances, or by warrant) searches of Apple phones in the US alone each year, some of them will take attention of three or four Apple employees if they are easy ones. To avoid this massive financial loss they have to make the phones easy to get into (and worth stealing now for various other reasons) or impossible to get into and that fact known by everybody.
If someone legitimately infringes content they eventually cut off your ability to upload content. Why can't they do the same from the other direction? If someone issues too many bogus claims they lose the ability to issue more claims.
They don't want to.
It suits them just fine to allow their service to be "cleaned" of things they don't believe in while not actually having a policy about those things.
I don't understand why this can't be in a temporary fashion, specific to this particular iphone, and only for this specific case. It's not clear to me why if Apple does this work, it suddenly invalidates whatever security measures are in place on current and new iphones.
You are confused about two things.
1) a program "for that specific phone" is what the judge ordered, however if that program works on one phone, it will work on others regardless of the desires of Apple
2) The phone in question is an iPhone 5c with specific and outdated security features. Compromising this phone will open up the ability to compromise all 5cs and any phone before that. iPhone 6 cannot be compromised in this manner.
iPhone battery life is not great especially if you do a lot of stuff on your phone. When it's plugged in charging, the iPhone is not in my pocket. I'm usually all over the place during the day. My phone is charging at my desk, but I'm not there and miss stuff. I also have small charger that's about the size of my thumb. But this requires a wire to be attached between the phone the charger. It's real clunkly. It doesn't all fit in one handle easily. It would be nice to have a phone that can last for a few days or be able to swap batteries on the fly. But this is not the case with iPhones. Plus you have to remember to charge it each night.
Do you know how to shut down apps on your iPhone? (insert curse about apple not having shit for manuals here)
Double tap the home button and swipe up on all the stuff that appears. If you shut things down, the battery lasts much longer.
Real paper maps are NO longer common in the USA. It took several months for me to find a local city map for my non Internet connected Mom.
Tim S.
The Boy Scouts offer a merit badge in mapping. I suspect the real problem is that while maps are common, large numbers of folks never really learned how to use them. Sounds to me like an elementary-school class on the topic is in order.
Lots of gas stations have maps. True, they are expensive, but get close to where you need to go and find a BP or something and buy one. These will be street level city wide maps in all but the largest cities where you are going to need a local atlas.
Cellphones must be a godsend to 911 in this regard.
Cellphones were a bloody nightmare in this regard. Before cellphones, your phone was tied to a physical phone line, and emergency dispatch knew where that line was for your phone number.. Knowing what cell tower you were using helped a little, but the problem really didn't go away until cells started having GPS.
VOIP and VPNs have screwed that up even further. My co-worker had a fire and dialed 911 on a desk phone that made the 911 operator think he was in a different city, despite being able to tell them to tell the fire fighters to walk out into the parking lot of the station and look for the smoke down the street.
They would just post a thread to ask that. People are offering up solutions. Desperate to have a solution even. As a user, I don't want the content to go away, but on the other hand, I am not tolerating asshole ads either. If someone can take the asshole part out and find a happy medium then I wouldn't complain about it.
At least it's not Expert Sex Change links where people have a similar problem and people post answers, but you can't see them because you don't pay for their service. Those days were the worst.
You are right, site-scrapers are annoying as hell. I don't get why the search engines don't completely blacklist them. They must not ever use their own search tools to solve problems.
Experts Exchange is easy to beat. Just scroll down past the ads and junk on the page and the actual conversation is there.
Just be professional about it. Tell him that there seems to be a mix of personal and company data, and to please separate the two and transfer any business relevant data to the server where it belongs. Personal data can to stored to an external drive or we can wipe it along with the rest of the internal drive.
Let them sort it out. Only they know what's what among all that data. There's no need to be involved in the sorting process.
The sorting process might be quite arduous though, with lots of 10 minute breaks in it and all...
Migrations often bring a lot of this out of the woodwork. You can tell users to clean up their machines before migration till you're blue in the face but you'll still get the uncomfortable moment when the 80Gb of "essential company data" they need transferred from their old laptop has filenames like "Busty Betty bonks like an animal"...
Though as IT staff we're not immune to this either - I've seen someone asked to hand in their resignation by the end of the day because someone else borrowed their flash drive to transfer customer data and it turned out to be full of pr0n... which Windows helpfully popped up thumbnails of right in front of said customer...
This is why my porn is all encrypted.;)
Mostly our problem is telling people MP3s shouldn't be copied onto the network.
I got a 1 terabyte hard drive from a (very snotty in general, a pile of self-important turds if I ever saw one) customer once that wanted their VM copied onto it so they could host it elsewhere. We were happy to see them go. Instead of buying a hard drive for couple hundred, the dude used his personal drive full of pirated movies. Of course, we copied all of them and tucked his VM on the drive and sent it back. No porn, unfortunately. But weeks worth of BitTorrents...
This was their IT guy.
Instructions came with "DONT DELETE ANYTHING". Which means, they couldn't afford a new drive to use, and the IT guy didn't know how to make his own backups. We offered to buy them a drive and just copy the VM onto it and ship it. With two way shipping costs... a new drive would have been better.
I never mix personal equipment with work equipment to help prevent that stuff from happening. "Sorry, go to walgreens and get a thumb drive" (while looking at a pile of my personal drives sitting on my desk.)
When your "balance" means giving things to people who haven't earned it, then it has no place in business nor politics.
Nobody who wants to get something done as their top priority, cares what race or sex the people are who do it. And seriously, you don't think that if one sex or one race did the same stuff for cheaper, that they wouldn't have somehow filled the ranks already? Do you really think people are more racist than they are greedy?
Sorry, the one causing problems here is you. Go smoke some more pot.
When it is mixed in with a steady stream of "I didn't do anything and now it's infected" and "Did you get the email about the email server being down?" , disgusting keyboards that don't work anymore, demands for more optical mice because the kids got new computers or whatever else...
There is literally no down side for them to drop the reasons for the trust.
Maybe with a contract, and an escrow account wired pays into, that pays me every time I have to un-fuck a computer that got infected from their web site... at my sole discretion of course.
They can say they will be vetting adds all they want. They won't. It'll be the first thing dropped when someone gets busy or they start needing money.
I only started using ad-blocker when ads became a draw on performance.
What motivated me was constantly fixing my friend's and families' computers.
Every social gathering "hey, can you look at" "I get these pop ups" etc.
I started using one of the popular HOSTS file data sets (not THAT one) and all of a sudden, it was only occasionally someone would get some crap installed.
Naturally, I used the file myself.
I would add or remove items if they provided the hostname they use, and it was unique to them. If slashdot wants to make "ads.slashdot.org" point to some ad network server I would let it happen. Use doubleclick or any of the other evil ones, and they will be blocked.
I will NOT disable ALL ad blocking to use any site.
I don't give a fuck if they go out of business or not, the sooner they realize this the sooner they work on the problem in a way they can actually solve.
I suggest they host the ads as first-party, no Javascript, static images/ text links on their actual domain. One would pretty much have to write an AI to block them, and there would be little reason to try.
There are large technical problems with that.
The ad providers don't trust the content producers not to fleece them. How are they going to know? And how are they going go back to the widget seller and prove the ad was seen and worked?
Those are all technically, unsolved problems still.
On the other hand, the fact the ad networks think everybody is a shyster that will rip them off sort of demonstrates they are shysters themselves... everybody thinks others are just like them.
... and by the way, do dogs howl in different languages?
Probably; it's pretty easy to pick out differences in intonation/cadence/etc. if you've ever heard two different breeds of dog try to howl at the same time. Of course, then there's 'husky bitching', which as far as I've seen is unique to that breed. At least, I have yet to encounter another breed of dog that will sit down and start grumble-barking a soliloquy for no apparent reason and for minutes on end...
I have seen Boxers do that too. In that case, apparently to complain or express displeasure.
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And his music is terrible.
First Post Nails It
Close it down. Let's go to breakfast. Denny's anybody?
Yeah but couldn't we try a dictionary first, plus I don't think people like inputting long passcodes on a selfphone. I should really read up on this stuff but it's hard.
They could narrow stuff down a bit by carefully examining places where PWs are stored or things that are used for inspiration... except the dumb fucks already released the apartment and the landlord let the media in so the whole place is compromised.
The password could have been written on a post-it note on the fridge for all we know.
Though, these guys effectively destroyed two other phones and some hard drives, this iPhone is a third "work" phone used by one of them. It doesn't necessarily have any data on it, and the fact that it wasn't destroyed sort of implied it won't. The county (the employer) that issued the phone also failed to put any regular IT safeguards on it or they could have just gone that route.
Sitting here looking at my "your data got stolen from the government" OPM hack announcement letter and all this makes me certain the government shouldn't be trusted with a pointed stick, let alone a tool to unlock phones.
The FBI needs to go crawl back under their rock where they can effectively protect hillary fucking clinton from numerous felonies.
But think of it this way - if they didn't care, why did they go through all the trouble of the secure enclave? And to make it an extremely paranoid one at that - giving it the ultimate power to wipe the phone if attacked? (Error 53 is such an attack - perhaps a modified fingerprint sensor is trying to find a way to break the secure enclave code and allow it to run arbitrary code, allowing full access to the system without the system knowing. The secure enclave is paranoid as it should be). It's why later phones rely on it to do the 10 authentication attempts and wipe, and why the enclave enforces the delays between attempts.
"Caring" isn't needed. It makes economic sense to make the phones secure for two reasons 1) it sells more of them 2) it keeps Apple from having to work with every dumb little request from law enforcement about tookie and where he got the weed. Not to mention what the prop-up-it's-own-power surveillance-state will try to do "in secret."
There are probably MILLIONS of lawful (circumstances, or by warrant) searches of Apple phones in the US alone each year, some of them will take attention of three or four Apple employees if they are easy ones. To avoid this massive financial loss they have to make the phones easy to get into (and worth stealing now for various other reasons) or impossible to get into and that fact known by everybody.
If someone legitimately infringes content they eventually cut off your ability to upload content. Why can't they do the same from the other direction? If someone issues too many bogus claims they lose the ability to issue more claims.
They don't want to.
It suits them just fine to allow their service to be "cleaned" of things they don't believe in while not actually having a policy about those things.
But for this specific case only.
I don't understand why this can't be in a temporary fashion, specific to this particular iphone, and only for this specific case. It's not clear to me why if Apple does this work, it suddenly invalidates whatever security measures are in place on current and new iphones.
You are confused about two things.
1) a program "for that specific phone" is what the judge ordered, however if that program works on one phone, it will work on others regardless of the desires of Apple
2) The phone in question is an iPhone 5c with specific and outdated security features. Compromising this phone will open up the ability to compromise all 5cs and any phone before that. iPhone 6 cannot be compromised in this manner.
So everybody knows not to use those merchants and they find themselves with their foolish SEO navel gazing efforts.
iPhone battery life is not great especially if you do a lot of stuff on your phone. When it's plugged in charging, the iPhone is not in my pocket. I'm usually all over the place during the day. My phone is charging at my desk, but I'm not there and miss stuff. I also have small charger that's about the size of my thumb. But this requires a wire to be attached between the phone the charger. It's real clunkly. It doesn't all fit in one handle easily. It would be nice to have a phone that can last for a few days or be able to swap batteries on the fly. But this is not the case with iPhones. Plus you have to remember to charge it each night.
Do you know how to shut down apps on your iPhone? (insert curse about apple not having shit for manuals here)
Double tap the home button and swipe up on all the stuff that appears. If you shut things down, the battery lasts much longer.
No matter your feels on the subject, the GP is factually correct.
Nuclear weapons being used in war marked the turning point where deaths from conflict fell considerably (and continue to fall.)
If you think otherwise, you are ignorant of history and getting all spun up in emotion like a child.
Real paper maps are NO longer common in the USA. It took several months for me to find a local city map for my non Internet connected Mom. Tim S.
The Boy Scouts offer a merit badge in mapping. I suspect the real problem is that while maps are common, large numbers of folks never really learned how to use them. Sounds to me like an elementary-school class on the topic is in order.
Lots of gas stations have maps. True, they are expensive, but get close to where you need to go and find a BP or something and buy one. These will be street level city wide maps in all but the largest cities where you are going to need a local atlas.
Cellphones were a bloody nightmare in this regard. Before cellphones, your phone was tied to a physical phone line, and emergency dispatch knew where that line was for your phone number.. Knowing what cell tower you were using helped a little, but the problem really didn't go away until cells started having GPS.
VOIP and VPNs have screwed that up even further. My co-worker had a fire and dialed 911 on a desk phone that made the 911 operator think he was in a different city, despite being able to tell them to tell the fire fighters to walk out into the parking lot of the station and look for the smoke down the street.
This is how politicians seem to work. It's how big businesses seem to work. This research may be very important in the long run.
unless you don't need to re-enter or hit a specific target. let's say you just want to get something high over the continental US and detonate it.
something that creates a nice EMP.
They have a ways to go before they can create an EMP-capable nuclear weapon.
And, EMP threat is not what fiction tells you it is.
They would just post a thread to ask that. People are offering up solutions. Desperate to have a solution even. As a user, I don't want the content to go away, but on the other hand, I am not tolerating asshole ads either. If someone can take the asshole part out and find a happy medium then I wouldn't complain about it.
At least it's not Expert Sex Change links where people have a similar problem and people post answers, but you can't see them because you don't pay for their service. Those days were the worst.
You are right, site-scrapers are annoying as hell. I don't get why the search engines don't completely blacklist them. They must not ever use their own search tools to solve problems.
Experts Exchange is easy to beat. Just scroll down past the ads and junk on the page and the actual conversation is there.
Just be professional about it. Tell him that there seems to be a mix of personal and company data, and to please separate the two and transfer any business relevant data to the server where it belongs. Personal data can to stored to an external drive or we can wipe it along with the rest of the internal drive.
Let them sort it out. Only they know what's what among all that data. There's no need to be involved in the sorting process.
The sorting process might be quite arduous though, with lots of 10 minute breaks in it and all...
Migrations often bring a lot of this out of the woodwork. You can tell users to clean up their machines before migration till you're blue in the face but you'll still get the uncomfortable moment when the 80Gb of "essential company data" they need transferred from their old laptop has filenames like "Busty Betty bonks like an animal"... Though as IT staff we're not immune to this either - I've seen someone asked to hand in their resignation by the end of the day because someone else borrowed their flash drive to transfer customer data and it turned out to be full of pr0n... which Windows helpfully popped up thumbnails of right in front of said customer...
This is why my porn is all encrypted. ;)
Mostly our problem is telling people MP3s shouldn't be copied onto the network.
I got a 1 terabyte hard drive from a (very snotty in general, a pile of self-important turds if I ever saw one) customer once that wanted their VM copied onto it so they could host it elsewhere. We were happy to see them go. Instead of buying a hard drive for couple hundred, the dude used his personal drive full of pirated movies. Of course, we copied all of them and tucked his VM on the drive and sent it back. No porn, unfortunately. But weeks worth of BitTorrents...
This was their IT guy.
Instructions came with "DONT DELETE ANYTHING". Which means, they couldn't afford a new drive to use, and the IT guy didn't know how to make his own backups. We offered to buy them a drive and just copy the VM onto it and ship it. With two way shipping costs... a new drive would have been better.
I never mix personal equipment with work equipment to help prevent that stuff from happening. "Sorry, go to walgreens and get a thumb drive" (while looking at a pile of my personal drives sitting on my desk.)
When your "balance" means giving things to people who haven't earned it, then it has no place in business nor politics.
Nobody who wants to get something done as their top priority, cares what race or sex the people are who do it. And seriously, you don't think that if one sex or one race did the same stuff for cheaper, that they wouldn't have somehow filled the ranks already? Do you really think people are more racist than they are greedy?
Sorry, the one causing problems here is you. Go smoke some more pot.
When it is mixed in with a steady stream of "I didn't do anything and now it's infected" and "Did you get the email about the email server being down?" , disgusting keyboards that don't work anymore, demands for more optical mice because the kids got new computers or whatever else...
this kind of stuff doesn't stand out so much.
Why would you trust them?
There is literally no down side for them to drop the reasons for the trust.
Maybe with a contract, and an escrow account wired pays into, that pays me every time I have to un-fuck a computer that got infected from their web site... at my sole discretion of course.
They can say they will be vetting adds all they want. They won't. It'll be the first thing dropped when someone gets busy or they start needing money.
The browser or ad-blocker could run the phone home part without showing you the ad.
Fourth option: have lightweight unobtrusive ads.
I only started using ad-blocker when ads became a draw on performance.
What motivated me was constantly fixing my friend's and families' computers.
Every social gathering "hey, can you look at" "I get these pop ups" etc.
I started using one of the popular HOSTS file data sets (not THAT one) and all of a sudden, it was only occasionally someone would get some crap installed.
Naturally, I used the file myself.
I would add or remove items if they provided the hostname they use, and it was unique to them. If slashdot wants to make "ads.slashdot.org" point to some ad network server I would let it happen. Use doubleclick or any of the other evil ones, and they will be blocked.
I will NOT disable ALL ad blocking to use any site.
I don't give a fuck if they go out of business or not, the sooner they realize this the sooner they work on the problem in a way they can actually solve.
I suggest they host the ads as first-party, no Javascript, static images/ text links on their actual domain. One would pretty much have to write an AI to block them, and there would be little reason to try.
There are large technical problems with that.
The ad providers don't trust the content producers not to fleece them. How are they going to know? And how are they going go back to the widget seller and prove the ad was seen and worked?
Those are all technically, unsolved problems still.
On the other hand, the fact the ad networks think everybody is a shyster that will rip them off sort of demonstrates they are shysters themselves... everybody thinks others are just like them.
... and by the way, do dogs howl in different languages?
Probably; it's pretty easy to pick out differences in intonation/cadence/etc. if you've ever heard two different breeds of dog try to howl at the same time. Of course, then there's 'husky bitching', which as far as I've seen is unique to that breed. At least, I have yet to encounter another breed of dog that will sit down and start grumble-barking a soliloquy for no apparent reason and for minutes on end...
I have seen Boxers do that too. In that case, apparently to complain or express displeasure.
You've just described the US.
How is the water in Flint?
Democratic.
Or they drive in what used to be the bike lane, shying away from people on the other side who are picking a random lane to drive in.