When he says "wipes the phone" what he really meant is "wipes the decryption key from the secure hardware storage" and you're fucked. Then it's brute force for thousands of years time.
Well, a judge ordered them to do the impossible. The judge didn't order that it had to be done within a certain time period. So, pull an image from the device and set a "reasonable" amount of computing power at guessing keys. In a couple thousand years when it gets unlocked, no one will care, and the order was complied with.
Yeah, you have no idea how Apple implemented this, so of course it should be easy.
The amount of tries you get has an ever-increasing delay between that is hardware enforced by the secure device that holds the key, and that device cannot have it's storage copied. That device cannot be removed from the phone, as the processor contains part of the key's salt burned in, so they must be paired. And, it's possible that the default behavior of wiping the device, which is accomplished by wiping the key, happens after 10 incorrect tries. A better explanation from someone above: http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
So, if you want to do what you're suggesting, which is to image the device and then try to brute force the AES-256 key to decrypt the image, have fun. We'll get the results of that somewhere between now and after the Sun consumes the planet as it turns into a red dwarf. Either way, it is very improbable that anyone who would see the phone unlock would be born yet, or care about a very limited event in history from so many years ago from their point of view.
CALEA doesn't apply to on-device storage, or even data networks. It applies to the voice network, and being able to run a court ordered wiretap for telephonic surveillance.
Yeah, except it's not "bricked". Don't use words you don't understand. The device is still fully functional, and you have many recovery methods to get it back to a usable state.
"Bricked" means that it is no more functional than a brick. It's ballast. You can use it to prop open a door, or make sure papers don't blow away off your desk. And that's it.
If a toddler figures out how to turn on the PIN lock and locks you out of your shit, you can always plug it into iTunes and wipe it. If you don't have a backup to then restore, then you're a damn idiot and deserve to lose all your shit, especially as Apple gives you 5GB of encrypted online backup storage for free.
Or, being the manufacturer, they set up 1000 phones on a room of computers capable of remote PIN entry, and each one tries 10 PINs. One phone unlocks, and then they reset the PIN to 1234 and hand it to the FBI.
At least, that's the "parallelized" brute force solution.
Making a nuclear weapon is basically about doing some math, and having the materials of enough purity. Making a thermonuclear weapons takes a whole lot more work, and a whole lot more effort and time. And then you end up with something the size of a building, which is only good for vaporizing the island that the building is sitting on.
Then, after spending an ungodly amount of money and supercomputing time, can you then shrink your warhead down to something that is what in the US arsenal is referred to as "modern".
Yes, you're right, the first fission detonation was in 1945. But in 1965 the US Air Force's main ICBM was the Titan II missile, which was optionally used to launch a Gemini capsule with two people in it into orbit, because the US nuclear missile force still required something that could put 8200 pounds into a 10,000 km suborbital trajectory. The Titan-II was still in use as an operational ICBM until Ronald Reagan retired it in 1981, and used a W53 warhead / Mark-6 reentry vehicle weighing in just under that.
The smaller warheads available to the US Military which enabled the idea of MIRV was brought about by a few different things: massive increases in computing power, the idea that big-dick multi-megaton bombs just didn't do as much destruction as a few smaller, more reliable warheads, guided by new inertial guidance systems that didn't exist in the early days of nuclear missiles.
But it still took untold billions for the US to finally arrive at the W88 warhead which "probably" weighs less than 800 pounds, and still carrying a yield estimated at 475kt.
My neighborhood does not have center markings on the access road. Some jerk off in a huge bro-truck just about tore the front end off my car by cutting a left turn 90 degree corner in a road.
A center line would help him keep that pig in his lane, rather than trying to set off my airbags.
And if the full cost of taking a train was included in what you pay at the fare box, the trains would run empty.
Yes, roads and highways are expensive. So are $300M/mile light rail lines that aren't even sold to the public as mass transit anymore, but rather as value enhancement for property owners. You see, they're turning yet another negative about rail transit into a positive - once the tracks are set, they can't be moved to meet demand like a bus can.
Then don't make the advertising on your site intrusive, and abusive.
Ads have been on the Internet for 15 years now, we're willing to accept some advertising. But if you go overboard, we'll find ways to make it go the fuck away. The rise of ad blockers can be correlated with the rise of in-your-face pop-over infuriating advertising. I know the bills have to be paid, but stop throwing it up in my face covering the content.
You've got nobody to blame but yourself. Think of ad blocker software as the DVR 30 second skip button of the Internet. It exists purely as a reaction to content providers going over the line a few too many times.
If Intel sticks to what they've done in the last few product generations, they'll still have higher-wattage higher-performance chips at the upper end for servers and workstations. But the ULV parts have been staying at basically the same performance now for a few years, with drastically reduced energy use. I think the current parts are under 4 watts for the same performance you used to have to spend 18 watts to get.
Exactly. Apple kept a secret x86 / x64 version of Mac OS X in the closet for 5 years as a hedge against IBM screwing them over on PowerPC. Turns out to be one of the best decisions that they ever made.
Except that Intel has been a licensor of ARM for a very long time, so even if there was some magical shift to ARM in non-mobile ultra-low-voltage devices, Intel would still be able to apply what they know about advancing the state of the art.
Yes, Sanders supporters know that he's talked about raising taxes.
The problem is that it's always raising taxes on 'other people' so that doesn't bother his supporters. It's the Occupy Wall Street thing all over again - let's just tax the shit out of the top 1% in order to pay for free shit for the 99%. Except that if you taxed the top 1% at a rate of 100%, that still only gets you 4 months of the federal budget. Then the 99% either still has to pony up, or the wheels come off the global economy.
In reality, in order for Sanders to do even half of what he's talking about, he would need to substantially raise taxes on everybody, even after closing all the loopholes that everyone loves to talk about. In reality, we need to raise taxes *right now* in order to pay for all the shit we're currently spending money on, or stop spending all that money. It's basic math, and Congress gets an F in basic math every year.
Especially as the cross-section between people that want a self-driving car, and people who want a Porsche is so close to zero that the Theory of Limits applies.
If people want to show off, they buy a Lambo. If they want a car that can drive quickly around a race track, they get a Porsche.
My god, it's hideous. Who thought "Hey, you know, we don't have a real competitor to the Maserati Quattroporte, so let's stretch out a 911 and put 4 doors on it...
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That gets you the AES-256 encrypted image.
When he says "wipes the phone" what he really meant is "wipes the decryption key from the secure hardware storage" and you're fucked. Then it's brute force for thousands of years time.
This is why you pay a team of lawyers to show what extravagant actions were done in order to comply with the court order, and convince the judge.
You act like a Federal Judge is a fucking moron or something. They may not understand technology, but they aren't stupid by any means.
Well, a judge ordered them to do the impossible. The judge didn't order that it had to be done within a certain time period. So, pull an image from the device and set a "reasonable" amount of computing power at guessing keys. In a couple thousand years when it gets unlocked, no one will care, and the order was complied with.
Yeah, you have no idea how Apple implemented this, so of course it should be easy.
The amount of tries you get has an ever-increasing delay between that is hardware enforced by the secure device that holds the key, and that device cannot have it's storage copied. That device cannot be removed from the phone, as the processor contains part of the key's salt burned in, so they must be paired. And, it's possible that the default behavior of wiping the device, which is accomplished by wiping the key, happens after 10 incorrect tries. A better explanation from someone above: http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
So, if you want to do what you're suggesting, which is to image the device and then try to brute force the AES-256 key to decrypt the image, have fun. We'll get the results of that somewhere between now and after the Sun consumes the planet as it turns into a red dwarf. Either way, it is very improbable that anyone who would see the phone unlock would be born yet, or care about a very limited event in history from so many years ago from their point of view.
More info: https://www.apple.com/business...
You can't take down co-conspirators with that kind of quitter talk.
CALEA doesn't apply to on-device storage, or even data networks. It applies to the voice network, and being able to run a court ordered wiretap for telephonic surveillance.
Yeah, except it's not "bricked". Don't use words you don't understand. The device is still fully functional, and you have many recovery methods to get it back to a usable state.
"Bricked" means that it is no more functional than a brick. It's ballast. You can use it to prop open a door, or make sure papers don't blow away off your desk. And that's it.
If a toddler figures out how to turn on the PIN lock and locks you out of your shit, you can always plug it into iTunes and wipe it. If you don't have a backup to then restore, then you're a damn idiot and deserve to lose all your shit, especially as Apple gives you 5GB of encrypted online backup storage for free.
There you go, using facts and logic to try to set an irrational person right.
Won't work - they're irrational.
And in that case, if it was my phone, I would cease caring.
Because I'm dead.
(restoring an image of the phone in question onto each, of course)
Or, being the manufacturer, they set up 1000 phones on a room of computers capable of remote PIN entry, and each one tries 10 PINs. One phone unlocks, and then they reset the PIN to 1234 and hand it to the FBI.
At least, that's the "parallelized" brute force solution.
BitTorrent.
You've got it basically backwards.
Making a nuclear weapon is basically about doing some math, and having the materials of enough purity. Making a thermonuclear weapons takes a whole lot more work, and a whole lot more effort and time. And then you end up with something the size of a building, which is only good for vaporizing the island that the building is sitting on.
Then, after spending an ungodly amount of money and supercomputing time, can you then shrink your warhead down to something that is what in the US arsenal is referred to as "modern".
Yes, you're right, the first fission detonation was in 1945. But in 1965 the US Air Force's main ICBM was the Titan II missile, which was optionally used to launch a Gemini capsule with two people in it into orbit, because the US nuclear missile force still required something that could put 8200 pounds into a 10,000 km suborbital trajectory. The Titan-II was still in use as an operational ICBM until Ronald Reagan retired it in 1981, and used a W53 warhead / Mark-6 reentry vehicle weighing in just under that.
The smaller warheads available to the US Military which enabled the idea of MIRV was brought about by a few different things: massive increases in computing power, the idea that big-dick multi-megaton bombs just didn't do as much destruction as a few smaller, more reliable warheads, guided by new inertial guidance systems that didn't exist in the early days of nuclear missiles.
But it still took untold billions for the US to finally arrive at the W88 warhead which "probably" weighs less than 800 pounds, and still carrying a yield estimated at 475kt.
My neighborhood does not have center markings on the access road. Some jerk off in a huge bro-truck just about tore the front end off my car by cutting a left turn 90 degree corner in a road.
A center line would help him keep that pig in his lane, rather than trying to set off my airbags.
And if the full cost of taking a train was included in what you pay at the fare box, the trains would run empty.
Yes, roads and highways are expensive. So are $300M/mile light rail lines that aren't even sold to the public as mass transit anymore, but rather as value enhancement for property owners. You see, they're turning yet another negative about rail transit into a positive - once the tracks are set, they can't be moved to meet demand like a bus can.
Yeah, no.
The Federal Highway speed limit is 55, but states have increased it within their borders to as high as 80 depending on the state.
Most states use 65 or 70 MPH outside urban areas on modern highways.
Then don't make the advertising on your site intrusive, and abusive.
Ads have been on the Internet for 15 years now, we're willing to accept some advertising. But if you go overboard, we'll find ways to make it go the fuck away. The rise of ad blockers can be correlated with the rise of in-your-face pop-over infuriating advertising. I know the bills have to be paid, but stop throwing it up in my face covering the content.
You've got nobody to blame but yourself. Think of ad blocker software as the DVR 30 second skip button of the Internet. It exists purely as a reaction to content providers going over the line a few too many times.
Basically all of the manned launches except Apollo and Shuttle.
If Intel sticks to what they've done in the last few product generations, they'll still have higher-wattage higher-performance chips at the upper end for servers and workstations. But the ULV parts have been staying at basically the same performance now for a few years, with drastically reduced energy use. I think the current parts are under 4 watts for the same performance you used to have to spend 18 watts to get.
Exactly. Apple kept a secret x86 / x64 version of Mac OS X in the closet for 5 years as a hedge against IBM screwing them over on PowerPC. Turns out to be one of the best decisions that they ever made.
Except that Intel has been a licensor of ARM for a very long time, so even if there was some magical shift to ARM in non-mobile ultra-low-voltage devices, Intel would still be able to apply what they know about advancing the state of the art.
Don't worry about Intel, they'll be just fine.
Yes, Sanders supporters know that he's talked about raising taxes.
The problem is that it's always raising taxes on 'other people' so that doesn't bother his supporters. It's the Occupy Wall Street thing all over again - let's just tax the shit out of the top 1% in order to pay for free shit for the 99%. Except that if you taxed the top 1% at a rate of 100%, that still only gets you 4 months of the federal budget. Then the 99% either still has to pony up, or the wheels come off the global economy.
In reality, in order for Sanders to do even half of what he's talking about, he would need to substantially raise taxes on everybody, even after closing all the loopholes that everyone loves to talk about. In reality, we need to raise taxes *right now* in order to pay for all the shit we're currently spending money on, or stop spending all that money. It's basic math, and Congress gets an F in basic math every year.
Especially as the cross-section between people that want a self-driving car, and people who want a Porsche is so close to zero that the Theory of Limits applies.
If people want to show off, they buy a Lambo. If they want a car that can drive quickly around a race track, they get a Porsche.
I'll see your Cayenne, and raise you a Panamera.
My god, it's hideous. Who thought "Hey, you know, we don't have a real competitor to the Maserati Quattroporte, so let's stretch out a 911 and put 4 doors on it...
Stewart Alsop, is that you?