Yes, Apple is holy and invincible, and its phones are unhackable marvel. Every Apple fanboy knows it. Even some lame 5C that doesn't even have "secure anclave" to pretend any security illusion, must be unhackable, because it is made by saints. It is total lie that Apple helped authorities in the past to disable its super-secure screen lockers. Keep your faith unshaken, don't listen to infidels!
It is not that much about radioactivity, but that nuclear has hopelessly high capital costs and can't compete commercially even when provided legislated liability insurance subsidy as in the US. This also leads to: 1. Very long pay off period lasting decades. You giving up all your options for many DECADES as you already wasted all money building nuclear plant, and you must buy that hopelessly expensive nuclear electricity as somebody assumed it will cost that much when plans were made decades ago. 2. It isn't really dispatchable. You may stop it, but most of the costs are capital costs, fuel is just small fraction. So you run it at 100% or capital is wasted. Worse, it may come down unscheduled at any moment and you will need to provide full gigawatt level backup immediately to avoid grid failure anyway. 3. 1 & 2. also means that it doesn't stick with intermittent solar/wind power at all. Bigger nuclear power share leaves less space for solar/wind. Conclusion: Nuclear power is dinosaur of nuclear weapon development era. Leave it to submarines if they still want it.
SSLv2 was also top security feature that is impossible to crack by anybody, just make keys long enough. Then SSLv3 was the one impossible to crack. Then everybody started to understand that they are full of holes and workarounds, and who knows how many undisclosed exploits big government agencies have - whatever country you will take. The "private" key isn't that private too if you think more about it. There is bunch of people at Apple who have access to it and it is not hidden in some Faraday cage 100 feet under ground with vaulted doors.
How about just booting existing OS and reading/writing the RAM if you have hardware access? It is assumed that Apple already has backdoor to disable unlock attempt counter, so it should be possible for everybody if you can skip Apple signature requirement for new code.
How dumb people can go? Trump resort in Palm Beach also "can't find" local workers no matter how many crowds of locals try to apply. They just import them from Romania. http://www.miamiherald.com/opi...
It is just business. You don't get rich by even pretending to be anti-Government fighter in China - you would get jailed very quickly or kicked out of the country without money. No business case here, better to comply and don't ask questions.
While in US, there are plenty of folks who may applaud you even if fight is just a publicity stunt. So you can do it, it is safe and adds popularity (=money).
Apply may increase their profits by providing false sense of security, but it is just delusional to assume there is any security in your phone against governments and regimes of big countries. Everything on it can be read using zero-day exploits and you will never know it was read. Even if your phone is locked and you are dead and can't readily provide pin code to interrogator with a big wrench, he can always hire electronics engineer, connect your phone RAM and ROM and change all the bits he needs to brute-force full access. Very long unpractical passphrases may give another level of security illusion, but basically it is very old dilemma - you are trying to create security on device that is connected to all kinds of communication channels and can't be trusted at all, you have no clue what exactly is running on it at given moment of time.
You don't need "that" phone. You need to get any iPhone and you can debug it and get whatever access to it in general way that will apply to similar hardware/software, most likely just by changing single byte in machine code instructions. It would cost time/money though. Apple already has access to it though through their own personal backdoor,
No. The whole point is that "their own personal backdoor" does not exist.
Of course it exists. Changing software remotely without device owner permission is backdoor.
They are not changing anything remotely. The whole point is that the FBI physically has the phone.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with changing software by remote access. This is about breaking into a phone that they have in front of them and have opened up to directly get to via the physical access ports.
Apple has left option for themselves to change software remotely to whatever they choose as long as it is signed. Obviously having physical access to the phone doesn't make this software update more difficult or very different. So Apple can do it quite easily. And as long it can do it, there always be legal options to force them to do it. Will they be doing it individually for each phone after verifying rubber-stamped court orders, or just provide general way for law enforcement and forget it, is another story. But it will be done one way or another.
I don't know about this specific iPhone, but in general they should have some service software that would allow to flash whatever phone, including bricked phone with corrupt software, whatever phone settings were before.
You don't need "that" phone. You need to get any iPhone and you can debug it and get whatever access to it in general way that will apply to similar hardware/software, most likely just by changing single byte in machine code instructions. It would cost time/money though. Apple already has access to it though through their own personal backdoor,
No. The whole point is that "their own personal backdoor" does not exist.
Of course it exists. Changing software remotely without device owner permission is backdoor. You may argue about words and go around in circles as lawyers like but this request would not be possible at all if backdoor didn't existed. Apple can't tell that it is impossible for them - it is possible.
so why should they be immune to court orders? No business or person is immune to it. They can only (try to) refuse to provide general access software, but every time they will get court order to provide data from specific phone, they should be legally required to comply with court order.
Again. Apple is not being asked to "provide data from the phone"; they're not even being asked to decrypt the phone. They are being commanded to write new software to the FBI's specification.
Maybe, but public perception is different. And it is not "new software", it is just small and quick switch for existing software. Apple can and should argue about giving copy of this modified signed software to law enforcement. But Apple can use it in their own house and provide data only from unlocked phone back if they really want to check every court order themselves.
All this would unlikely to occur in some communist dictatorship like China. Nobody would go public and use some legal system there and would not tell Apple anything unless necessary. They would just write their own hack and use it without telling anybody even if it requires some hardware tweaks. Iphones are made in China after all, their electronics engineers know it better.
It is sounds like silly excuse, Apple doesn't know how to update software on their phone???;) It will not fly, and you don't have any "change phone" options, all phones are the same or worse in this aspect. Government can always have access to it, assuming otherwise just leaves you exposed. China regime may choose to do it their own though to avoid publicity and catch its enemies by surprise. It is likely they already done it, they have plenty of qualified people in China to do it.
You don't need "that" phone. You need to get any iPhone and you can debug it and get whatever access to it in general way that will apply to similar hardware/software, most likely just by changing single byte in machine code instructions. It would cost time/money though. Apple already has access to it though through their own personal backdoor, so why should they be immune to court orders? No business or person is immune to it. They can only (try to) refuse to provide general access software, but every time they will get court order to provide data from specific phone, they should be legally required to comply with court order.
The Apple will be required to do it in countries like China anyway. Making excuses and delays in US court will not make them immune to totalitarian regimes at all. Who cares about US courts in China.
They should had though about it when leaving backdoor in their phones allowing to install whatever software without owner's permission. Once they have left backdoor for themselves, now they have a line of people wanting to use it too, isn't this what was obvious from the beginning? They don't have and should not have any legal right to withheld access to evidence that they have access to.
And yes, once you have physical access to hardware, it certainly can be reverse engineered and few bits changed to ignore failing Apple signature or counter or whatever you want. It is just more convenient and faster to ask Apple do this work.
Regular human beings allow other human beings nearby to exist. And when you deny them right of existence and want to push them to the sea, no wonder you are treated as war time enemy.
You are free to image whatever you want if your emotions require it, but it is hard science and hydrogen is widely used for many decades, technology is more or less developed, and everything is already well proven long time ago, no need to invent a bicycle.
People were talking about some major water requirement in this thread as if it is some kind of fuel. Water is just part of the system that doesn't need much replacement. Yes you need power source, but it can be intermittent solar or wind. It is much more usable than UPS, specific energy, cost and ability to store energy for long term is better by orders of magnitude.
Did you ever heard that US isn't the whole world? Gas prices in Europe are still mostly taxes as it should be, and still over 1 EUR per liter, not gallon.
You don't need deep water for some fuel cell:/ Water is split into hydrogen and oxygen, then combined again into the same water. It is closed circle. Much easier and cheaper than constantly shipping diesel fuel to remote locations.
Pumped storage is expensive, limited by geography, and its scale is hopelessly small compared to natural gas storage. And it can't be used for microgrids like on military bases, so it is irrelevant for this application.
The theoretical limits how much wind/solar we can produce are way higher than we need. They either don't need any special supplies to manufacture, or these special supplies can be substituted by other wide-spread supplies without significant cost increase. E.g. many wind turbines use neodymium but newer giant wind turbines don't use permanent magnets and don't need neodymium. You can scale it as much as you want.
There are hundreds or thousands of important research project like this, not just fusion, and with more direct and realistic benefits. Even for fusion, there are at least couple of more projects in the US that continue to receive taxpayer money. They may look for private sponsors (and it seems it is what they are repeatedly doing with such publicity) if they can convince them they are in somewhat better research position than other labs burning the money.
Soviets had nuclear powered bomber plane program before rocket technology was advanced enough. Lead covered pilot capsule, first version didn't even have windows for pilots:/
For interstellar travel you will need to invent hyperspace jumping first;) Just reaching close to speed of light with thermonuclear reactor is like looking for very fast horse carriage to go to the Moon;)
It is just PR when you desperately need to find financing or you will be shut down. Manufacturing is pie in the sky so far, we don't have a slightest idea how to make this thing to work at all at practical level yet.
No need for the rocket, it already delivers this small part straight to the Earth at speed 300,000 km/s. We only using very tiny fraction of this small part and have plenty of it left.
Gas turbine costs vary greatly depending on what kind of turbines you are talking about. Anyway, there is no reason to claim that thermonuclear heat to electricity transformation will be in any way similar to gas turbine. Why not more like coal, or even more likely like nuclear? Nuclear fuel cost are also just small fraction of nuclear plant costs but we don't have electricity too cheap to meter yet.
Wind and PV costs are going down rapidly as they scale up, as there is no heat conversion involved, and by the time thermonuclear will be ready for commercialization decades later, they will be below even simple gas turbine costs. Power-to-gas will not need heat conversion either, pilot fuel cell power plants are already built around the world with higher efficiency than any gas turbine. Thermonuclear may make commercial sense for niche applications, but I don't see much sense for widespread use of it on Earth, unless something revolutionary will be invented during these decades.
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Yes, Apple is holy and invincible, and its phones are unhackable marvel. Every Apple fanboy knows it. Even some lame 5C that doesn't even have "secure anclave" to pretend any security illusion, must be unhackable, because it is made by saints. It is total lie that Apple helped authorities in the past to disable its super-secure screen lockers. Keep your faith unshaken, don't listen to infidels!
It is not that much about radioactivity, but that nuclear has hopelessly high capital costs and can't compete commercially even when provided legislated liability insurance subsidy as in the US.
This also leads to: 1. Very long pay off period lasting decades. You giving up all your options for many DECADES as you already wasted all money building nuclear plant, and you must buy that hopelessly expensive nuclear electricity as somebody assumed it will cost that much when plans were made decades ago.
2. It isn't really dispatchable. You may stop it, but most of the costs are capital costs, fuel is just small fraction. So you run it at 100% or capital is wasted. Worse, it may come down unscheduled at any moment and you will need to provide full gigawatt level backup immediately to avoid grid failure anyway.
3. 1 & 2. also means that it doesn't stick with intermittent solar/wind power at all. Bigger nuclear power share leaves less space for solar/wind.
Conclusion: Nuclear power is dinosaur of nuclear weapon development era. Leave it to submarines if they still want it.
SSLv2 was also top security feature that is impossible to crack by anybody, just make keys long enough. Then SSLv3 was the one impossible to crack. Then everybody started to understand that they are full of holes and workarounds, and who knows how many undisclosed exploits big government agencies have - whatever country you will take. The "private" key isn't that private too if you think more about it. There is bunch of people at Apple who have access to it and it is not hidden in some Faraday cage 100 feet under ground with vaulted doors.
How about just booting existing OS and reading/writing the RAM if you have hardware access?
It is assumed that Apple already has backdoor to disable unlock attempt counter, so it should be possible for everybody if you can skip Apple signature requirement for new code.
How dumb people can go? Trump resort in Palm Beach also "can't find" local workers no matter how many crowds of locals try to apply. They just import them from Romania.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opi...
It is just business. You don't get rich by even pretending to be anti-Government fighter in China - you would get jailed very quickly or kicked out of the country without money. No business case here, better to comply and don't ask questions.
While in US, there are plenty of folks who may applaud you even if fight is just a publicity stunt. So you can do it, it is safe and adds popularity (=money).
Apply may increase their profits by providing false sense of security, but it is just delusional to assume there is any security in your phone against governments and regimes of big countries. Everything on it can be read using zero-day exploits and you will never know it was read. Even if your phone is locked and you are dead and can't readily provide pin code to interrogator with a big wrench, he can always hire electronics engineer, connect your phone RAM and ROM and change all the bits he needs to brute-force full access. Very long unpractical passphrases may give another level of security illusion, but basically it is very old dilemma - you are trying to create security on device that is connected to all kinds of communication channels and can't be trusted at all, you have no clue what exactly is running on it at given moment of time.
You don't need "that" phone. You need to get any iPhone and you can debug it and get whatever access to it in general way that will apply to similar hardware/software, most likely just by changing single byte in machine code instructions. It would cost time/money though. Apple already has access to it though through their own personal backdoor,
No. The whole point is that "their own personal backdoor" does not exist.
Of course it exists. Changing software remotely without device owner permission is backdoor.
They are not changing anything remotely. The whole point is that the FBI physically has the phone.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with changing software by remote access. This is about breaking into a phone that they have in front of them and have opened up to directly get to via the physical access ports.
Apple has left option for themselves to change software remotely to whatever they choose as long as it is signed. Obviously having physical access to the phone doesn't make this software update more difficult or very different. So Apple can do it quite easily. And as long it can do it, there always be legal options to force them to do it. Will they be doing it individually for each phone after verifying rubber-stamped court orders, or just provide general way for law enforcement and forget it, is another story. But it will be done one way or another.
I don't know about this specific iPhone, but in general they should have some service software that would allow to flash whatever phone, including bricked phone with corrupt software, whatever phone settings were before.
You don't need "that" phone. You need to get any iPhone and you can debug it and get whatever access to it in general way that will apply to similar hardware/software, most likely just by changing single byte in machine code instructions. It would cost time/money though. Apple already has access to it though through their own personal backdoor,
No. The whole point is that "their own personal backdoor" does not exist.
Of course it exists. Changing software remotely without device owner permission is backdoor. You may argue about words and go around in circles as lawyers like but this request would not be possible at all if backdoor didn't existed. Apple can't tell that it is impossible for them - it is possible.
so why should they be immune to court orders? No business or person is immune to it. They can only (try to) refuse to provide general access software, but every time they will get court order to provide data from specific phone, they should be legally required to comply with court order.
Again. Apple is not being asked to "provide data from the phone"; they're not even being asked to decrypt the phone. They are being commanded to write new software to the FBI's specification.
Maybe, but public perception is different. And it is not "new software", it is just small and quick switch for existing software. Apple can and should argue about giving copy of this modified signed software to law enforcement. But Apple can use it in their own house and provide data only from unlocked phone back if they really want to check every court order themselves.
All this would unlikely to occur in some communist dictatorship like China. Nobody would go public and use some legal system there and would not tell Apple anything unless necessary. They would just write their own hack and use it without telling anybody even if it requires some hardware tweaks. Iphones are made in China after all, their electronics engineers know it better.
It is sounds like silly excuse, Apple doesn't know how to update software on their phone??? ;) It will not fly, and you don't have any "change phone" options, all phones are the same or worse in this aspect. Government can always have access to it, assuming otherwise just leaves you exposed. China regime may choose to do it their own though to avoid publicity and catch its enemies by surprise. It is likely they already done it, they have plenty of qualified people in China to do it.
You don't need "that" phone. You need to get any iPhone and you can debug it and get whatever access to it in general way that will apply to similar hardware/software, most likely just by changing single byte in machine code instructions. It would cost time/money though. Apple already has access to it though through their own personal backdoor, so why should they be immune to court orders? No business or person is immune to it. They can only (try to) refuse to provide general access software, but every time they will get court order to provide data from specific phone, they should be legally required to comply with court order.
The Apple will be required to do it in countries like China anyway. Making excuses and delays in US court will not make them immune to totalitarian regimes at all. Who cares about US courts in China.
They should had though about it when leaving backdoor in their phones allowing to install whatever software without owner's permission. Once they have left backdoor for themselves, now they have a line of people wanting to use it too, isn't this what was obvious from the beginning? They don't have and should not have any legal right to withheld access to evidence that they have access to.
And yes, once you have physical access to hardware, it certainly can be reverse engineered and few bits changed to ignore failing Apple signature or counter or whatever you want. It is just more convenient and faster to ask Apple do this work.
Regular human beings allow other human beings nearby to exist. And when you deny them right of existence and want to push them to the sea, no wonder you are treated as war time enemy.
You are free to image whatever you want if your emotions require it, but it is hard science and hydrogen is widely used for many decades, technology is more or less developed, and everything is already well proven long time ago, no need to invent a bicycle.
People were talking about some major water requirement in this thread as if it is some kind of fuel. Water is just part of the system that doesn't need much replacement.
Yes you need power source, but it can be intermittent solar or wind. It is much more usable than UPS, specific energy, cost and ability to store energy for long term is better by orders of magnitude.
Did you ever heard that US isn't the whole world? Gas prices in Europe are still mostly taxes as it should be, and still over 1 EUR per liter, not gallon.
You don't need deep water for some fuel cell :/ Water is split into hydrogen and oxygen, then combined again into the same water. It is closed circle. Much easier and cheaper than constantly shipping diesel fuel to remote locations.
Pumped storage is expensive, limited by geography, and its scale is hopelessly small compared to natural gas storage. And it can't be used for microgrids like on military bases, so it is irrelevant for this application.
The theoretical limits how much wind/solar we can produce are way higher than we need. They either don't need any special supplies to manufacture, or these special supplies can be substituted by other wide-spread supplies without significant cost increase. E.g. many wind turbines use neodymium but newer giant wind turbines don't use permanent magnets and don't need neodymium. You can scale it as much as you want.
There are hundreds or thousands of important research project like this, not just fusion, and with more direct and realistic benefits. Even for fusion, there are at least couple of more projects in the US that continue to receive taxpayer money. They may look for private sponsors (and it seems it is what they are repeatedly doing with such publicity) if they can convince them they are in somewhat better research position than other labs burning the money.
Soviets had nuclear powered bomber plane program before rocket technology was advanced enough. Lead covered pilot capsule, first version didn't even have windows for pilots :/
For interstellar travel you will need to invent hyperspace jumping first ;) Just reaching close to speed of light with thermonuclear reactor is like looking for very fast horse carriage to go to the Moon ;)
It is just PR when you desperately need to find financing or you will be shut down. Manufacturing is pie in the sky so far, we don't have a slightest idea how to make this thing to work at all at practical level yet.
No need for the rocket, it already delivers this small part straight to the Earth at speed 300,000 km/s. We only using very tiny fraction of this small part and have plenty of it left.
Gas turbine costs vary greatly depending on what kind of turbines you are talking about. Anyway, there is no reason to claim that thermonuclear heat to electricity transformation will be in any way similar to gas turbine. Why not more like coal, or even more likely like nuclear? Nuclear fuel cost are also just small fraction of nuclear plant costs but we don't have electricity too cheap to meter yet.
Wind and PV costs are going down rapidly as they scale up, as there is no heat conversion involved, and by the time thermonuclear will be ready for commercialization decades later, they will be below even simple gas turbine costs. Power-to-gas will not need heat conversion either, pilot fuel cell power plants are already built around the world with higher efficiency than any gas turbine. Thermonuclear may make commercial sense for niche applications, but I don't see much sense for widespread use of it on Earth, unless something revolutionary will be invented during these decades.
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