What's the response rate to: "Should Apple give the FBI a key to unlock all iPhones?"
If context is needed, try: "... to help the FBI investigate the work phone of a terrorist who is already dead and already destroyed his personal phone?"
Specifically, the next step in technological advancement of omnipresent surveillance/"telemetry" and of vendor lock-in and of forced upgrades and of dependency on corporate services. If that sounds good, just wait until some joker writes a virus to make your lightbulbs blink obscene messages in Morse code or pit your heater against your air conditioner.
Everyone here appreciates your standing up for America's right to privacy and safety. Even the ones who nitpick about your using "communism" as a synonym for "authoritarian".
"The Apple senior executives also pushed back on the government’s arguments that Apple’s actions were a marketing ploy, saying they were instead based on their love for the country and desire not to see civil liberties tossed aside."
Would you believe "love of their country" as a motivation for any large organization, including government agencies?
So if they were right 56% of the time and wrong 9% of the time.... Math isn't your strong suit is it? Next time you go to make up numbers you would make up better ones.
They're right 91% of the time. 56% of the time they're right about the gender, 35% of the time they're right about not being able to tell the gender (eg merchant#3475), and 9% of the time they guess wrong.
The FBI has the hardware. At the software level it should be game-over. So what is stopping them from copying the phone's memory, putting it in an emulator or another phone, and brute forcing the 5-digit PIN. Every time it self destructs, they load up another copy and continue until the correct PIN is found. What am I missing here?
What you're missing is that Apple engineers aren't idiots, and spent more than the 5 seconds you did thinking of their security. Specifically, half the key is embedded in the hardware and would require some super expensive reverse-engineering to extract.
Meanwhile, the government is making a big fuss about this because what they really want is the ability to crack iPhones in general, preferably remotely, automatically, and without a warrant. They already know who the guy was talking to. But there likely won't be such a good opportunity to set precedent as with this case, not for a loooong time.
My question as well. It's not like most eBay sellers have names like No1seller_gurl and buy_from_this_dude or even more subtle things like Sarahs_stuff or Dans_shop.
Apparently they do. They did a study and found that the gender of the eBay account could be correctly identified by volunteers 56% of the time, while only being misidentified 9% of the time.
It also is solar powered, and uploads video via a cloud-based webcam so people can watch as an eco-friendly, artisianally crafted from locally sourced renewable materials, hellfire missile blows op some filthy terrorists and/or innocent bystanders. It will also post to Twitter, default message "Another strike for freedom", and post a picture of the resulting crater on Instagram.
In case anyone was wondering why this story isn't littered with hosts files spam, Whipslash said he got rid of APK. I guess now we'll see how that went, as this story would have drawn him out for sure.
And if it's a vote Google feels should go a certain way, they can be sure to emphasize the poll to those who their analytics say will vote the right way.
I mean, just take one look at how successful the war on drugs has been!!!
The war on drugs has been unimaginably successful. At least if you assume the objective was to massively expand the ability of the state to search, confiscate, and imprison their citizens.
Yes, the whole mission is ready to go, but we just need someone to unblock the funds, you could help us out by sending a small sum to Nigeria via Western Union and then we'll give you a 50% cut in the proceeds!
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It's also cheaper than Starbucks.
What's the response rate to:
"Should Apple give the FBI a key to unlock all iPhones?"
If context is needed, try:
"... to help the FBI investigate the work phone of a terrorist who is already dead and already destroyed his personal phone?"
Specifically, the next step in technological advancement of omnipresent surveillance/"telemetry" and of vendor lock-in and of forced upgrades and of dependency on corporate services. If that sounds good, just wait until some joker writes a virus to make your lightbulbs blink obscene messages in Morse code or pit your heater against your air conditioner.
It's never happened to me, either. Has it been reported on why it affects some users but not others?
Hasn't affected me either. Of course, I don't use Windows 10...
It seems that accidentally is another English word that is reversing its meaning.
Kids these days are literally slaughtering the English language.
As a bonus, I hear that this new gut microbe biodiesel does not smell like hamburgers nor french fries...
Everyone here appreciates your standing up for America's right to privacy and safety. Even the ones who nitpick about your using "communism" as a synonym for "authoritarian".
Know any lawyers that have done 86,000 pro-bono cases?
I'm not going to hire any robot lawyer unless it can prove it is soulless.
Nuclear reactors were a fad that will soon blow over.
But if you can't tell someone "no" when they request your services, they own you.
So if the cops can subpoena you to produce documents, or compel you to testify, then they own you?
"The Apple senior executives also pushed back on the government’s arguments that Apple’s actions were a marketing ploy, saying they were instead based on their love for the country and desire not to see civil liberties tossed aside."
Would you believe "love of their country" as a motivation for any large organization, including government agencies?
So if they were right 56% of the time and wrong 9% of the time.... Math isn't your strong suit is it? Next time you go to make up numbers you would make up better ones.
They're right 91% of the time. 56% of the time they're right about the gender, 35% of the time they're right about not being able to tell the gender (eg merchant#3475), and 9% of the time they guess wrong.
The FBI has the hardware. At the software level it should be game-over. So what is stopping them from copying the phone's memory, putting it in an emulator or another phone, and brute forcing the 5-digit PIN. Every time it self destructs, they load up another copy and continue until the correct PIN is found. What am I missing here?
What you're missing is that Apple engineers aren't idiots, and spent more than the 5 seconds you did thinking of their security. Specifically, half the key is embedded in the hardware and would require some super expensive reverse-engineering to extract.
Meanwhile, the government is making a big fuss about this because what they really want is the ability to crack iPhones in general, preferably remotely, automatically, and without a warrant. They already know who the guy was talking to. But there likely won't be such a good opportunity to set precedent as with this case, not for a loooong time.
Never mind teachers, why are female rubbish collectors so rare?
Because a man says, "It's time to take out the trash!"
But a woman says, "Honey, could you please take out the trash?"
My question as well. It's not like most eBay sellers have names like No1seller_gurl and buy_from_this_dude or even more subtle things like Sarahs_stuff or Dans_shop.
Apparently they do. They did a study and found that the gender of the eBay account could be correctly identified by volunteers 56% of the time, while only being misidentified 9% of the time.
What about the 20% difference observed for new items?
Obviously, people check the gender of the merchant before buying from them.
It also is solar powered, and uploads video via a cloud-based webcam so people can watch as an eco-friendly, artisianally crafted from locally sourced renewable materials, hellfire missile blows op some filthy terrorists and/or innocent bystanders. It will also post to Twitter, default message "Another strike for freedom", and post a picture of the resulting crater on Instagram.
Got rescued by Disney. But did not live happily ever after.
In case anyone was wondering why this story isn't littered with hosts files spam, Whipslash said he got rid of APK. I guess now we'll see how that went, as this story would have drawn him out for sure.
how would we know?
It's a function of how popular they think the opinion is, and whether they've been elected yet.
And if it's a vote Google feels should go a certain way, they can be sure to emphasize the poll to those who their analytics say will vote the right way.
I mean, just take one look at how successful the war on drugs has been!!!
The war on drugs has been unimaginably successful. At least if you assume the objective was to massively expand the ability of the state to search, confiscate, and imprison their citizens.
Why? You got an asteroid you wanna sell?
Yes, the whole mission is ready to go, but we just need someone to unblock the funds, you could help us out by sending a small sum to Nigeria via Western Union and then we'll give you a 50% cut in the proceeds!
Nigerian Jedi spam?