1st: This guy didn't say anything about his emotions against the whole world's privacy, you did. Don't make him part of you fantasy.
2nd: The iPhone has already been cracked without any help from Apple for the 5c model, let see if the iPhone 6 is better, he never asked for a backdoor, you did misinterpreted his request to sustain your own point.
3rd: Sorry, but since it is already done by a private company, letting us think anyone with the motivation and capabilities can do the same, is it devastating for all iPhone users everywhere right now? I asked, because it already happened.
Nice, the CEO will then purchase insurance against a data breach, I don't see any problem with this. However, the insurer will accept to cover the risk only if certain conditions are met. This is then back to the CEO to make sure the conditions required to ensure the insurance will effectively cover the risk and a data breach will not turn into a legal case where the insurer will deny any payment to the company because the CEO didn't take his responsability to make sure the security is managed appropriately and accordingly to the insurance contract.
Purchasing an insurance is absolutely required, however it doesn't automagically make someone else responsible for the security.
Everyone in IT and CS is obviously a type A asshole. You survive in these fields only if you are a spelling maniac when time comes to write code. The compiler being the father and/or mother of all the type A assholes. What the compiler misses, the runtime will remind you. It is no wonder after two decades IT workers turn into jerks.
False, moving design where coding is done doesn't improve anything. The design is more tightly coupled to the business processes and needs than to the coding. The design is what makes the software useful in the way the business needs it. If you move the design off-shore, you decouple it from the business, unless you move the business as well off-shore. However, moving the business off-shore decouples it from its customers.
It is not true you have zero chance of survival after a dirty bomb event. In fact, you have pretty good chance to survive without any effect such an event. A dirty bomb has nothing to do with a nuclear bomb. The whole problem, if we take for granted they have the appropriate radioactive isotope in quantity in hand, is the delivery of such a bomb in order to create a large enough area with a large enough radiation intensity to be destructive. Given the means they have so far, I doubt they can do any harm greater than what they already did.
What is naive is to believe you can build an efficient dirty bomb with the grade of explosive they are using and the delivery means they have. How do you spread significant radioactive material over a large area? By large area, I mean something much more larger than the area damaged by the bombs they detonated in Brussels. Which isotope are they able to handle and how to do that? Being exposed to radiations doesn't kill or give cancer automagically. You need a large dose or a delivery mean that imply you will ingest a significant amount of the right isotope (yep, bananas and red beans contains a measurable amount of radioactive material you can ingest without harming yourself).
Making an efficient dirty bomb and deliver it is not a trivial task.
I don't know any of these titles, however, the American peak oil did actually occur in the 70s, as expected and predicted. The world peak oil has probably occured few years ago. You seem to think the peak oil is the point where no more oil is available. You can look at the World Energy Outlook 2013 (this is the lastest free report) from the International Energy Agency and look at the section on fossil fuel. http://www.worldenergyoutlook....
You will see for gas and oil, there is a bit more than half century of oil and gas left in proven reserves. Yes, there is still new oil and gas to discover, however, these reserves are expensive, difficult, not energy efficient to exploit.
Yes, there is a lot of difference between both, but not for the deads. The gun deaths are mostly due to gang wars and are not targetting civilians, while terrorist attacks are high profile events targetting as much civilians as possible.
So, what is the rational here? You mean, stop doing cancer research, because people are dying of cancer anyway? Or, don't try to avoid terrorist attacks because they are insignificants compare to cancer?
The largest per capita prison population doesn't mean anything alone. USA is also having the largest per capita illegal immigrants population. There is a lot of good and legitimate reasons to put someone in prison. The prisons in USA are not full of political prisoneers.
You seems to rule out the possibility the exploit may be a hardware exploit and not a software exploit. In which case, it may not be possible to fix it unless they release another iPhone. In which case, this means as well physical access to the device is required to recover the encryption key and the data.
The article says nothing about how they believe they can access they encryption key. It may be a hardware hack since they have physical access to the device.
My enterprise is just starting to migrate from XP to Windows 7. At this pace, we will probably migrate to Windows 10 around 2030 to just discover laptop and desktop computers no longer exist anywhere.
Exactly. Unfortunately/. is publishing a lot of faked news about the Apple vs DOJ case which are only an opportunity for Apple groupies to show off. Some of them seems to believe/. is the platform of choice to raise an army against the DOJ. I'm just tired of that shit. So, if this f... legal procedure can reach an end asap, I will be glad to return to business as usual on/.
The brain dead script kiddies declare war on Trump. Really?
Do they know anything about democracy? Let the people not choose Trump as President and that's all. Left the democracy alone and get a life anonymous kids.
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You have it wrong.
Purchasing an insurance is absolutely required, however it doesn't automagically make someone else responsible for the security.
Everyone in IT and CS is obviously a type A asshole. You survive in these fields only if you are a spelling maniac when time comes to write code. The compiler being the father and/or mother of all the type A assholes. What the compiler misses, the runtime will remind you. It is no wonder after two decades IT workers turn into jerks.
They will use it as an argument to sell a newer model.
Unfortunately, many have already learned the hard way that even the best coding chops have their limits.
It all depends on your butcher and if you picked lamb, pork or veal chops.
This is even worst logic.
False, moving design where coding is done doesn't improve anything. The design is more tightly coupled to the business processes and needs than to the coding. The design is what makes the software useful in the way the business needs it. If you move the design off-shore, you decouple it from the business, unless you move the business as well off-shore. However, moving the business off-shore decouples it from its customers.
It is not true you have zero chance of survival after a dirty bomb event. In fact, you have pretty good chance to survive without any effect such an event. A dirty bomb has nothing to do with a nuclear bomb. The whole problem, if we take for granted they have the appropriate radioactive isotope in quantity in hand, is the delivery of such a bomb in order to create a large enough area with a large enough radiation intensity to be destructive. Given the means they have so far, I doubt they can do any harm greater than what they already did.
Making an efficient dirty bomb and deliver it is not a trivial task.
Please, don't be agressive.
Since the poster didn't describe his/her understanding of what agressivity is. Well, being a risk taker can be seen as being agressive on a position.
And agressivity is just a negociation skill.
You will see for gas and oil, there is a bit more than half century of oil and gas left in proven reserves. Yes, there is still new oil and gas to discover, however, these reserves are expensive, difficult, not energy efficient to exploit.
Yes, there is a lot of difference between both, but not for the deads. The gun deaths are mostly due to gang wars and are not targetting civilians, while terrorist attacks are high profile events targetting as much civilians as possible.
So, what is the rational here? You mean, stop doing cancer research, because people are dying of cancer anyway? Or, don't try to avoid terrorist attacks because they are insignificants compare to cancer?
The largest per capita prison population doesn't mean anything alone. USA is also having the largest per capita illegal immigrants population. There is a lot of good and legitimate reasons to put someone in prison. The prisons in USA are not full of political prisoneers.
With physical access to the device, it is perfectly plausible they found a way to recover the encryption key.
You seems to rule out the possibility the exploit may be a hardware exploit and not a software exploit. In which case, it may not be possible to fix it unless they release another iPhone. In which case, this means as well physical access to the device is required to recover the encryption key and the data.
The article says nothing about how they believe they can access they encryption key. It may be a hardware hack since they have physical access to the device.
But all bugs are not born equal.
My enterprise is just starting to migrate from XP to Windows 7. At this pace, we will probably migrate to Windows 10 around 2030 to just discover laptop and desktop computers no longer exist anywhere.
Well said Anonymous!
Exactly. Unfortunately /. is publishing a lot of faked news about the Apple vs DOJ case which are only an opportunity for Apple groupies to show off. Some of them seems to believe /. is the platform of choice to raise an army against the DOJ. I'm just tired of that shit. So, if this f... legal procedure can reach an end asap, I will be glad to return to business as usual on /.
Do they know anything about democracy? Let the people not choose Trump as President and that's all. Left the democracy alone and get a life anonymous kids.
These days it seems crime no longer pays well enough to stay in business. That's hard time for everyone in IT.