This only works on really old iPhones. The count is kept in the Secure Enclave since the iPhone 6 I believe.
Since iPhone 5s actually. The iPhone 5 and the iPhone 5c in the Bernardino case were the last phone models that didn't use the secure enclave to store the count.
On the other hand, had the Bernardino killer used a six digit passcode, then it would have taken easily a year to unlock the phone. Eight digit passcode = 100 year. I have no idea what data you could extract from a 100 year old iPhone.
If Apple can update the firmware to prevent bricking the phone then they can update the phone to match any pin.
That's not how it works. The iPhone doesn't check that you entered the correct pin. What it does is calculating a decryption key for one key stored in the CPU (which cannot be extracted by any means), one key stored in the flash drive (freely readable), and the pin. Someone needs to enter the correct pin. Without that, the iPhone is totally incapable of reading most data on the phone.
(There is some data that is encrypted _without_ the pin code. That makes it possible for example to use the calculator, take photos, call emergency services without entering the pin).
Apple's argument for not producing a customized version of the OS is that the FBI would surely leak it out, which would then endanger 100s of millions of phone users. And unfortunately, there is now precedence for that fear: The "wannacry" malware, which took for example many computers in Britain's national health service down, was stolen from the NSA. And I would have thought the NSA would be better than the FBI at keeping secrets, because that's their job.
Ten years ago, that shooter would have had a Nokia phone. With no information stored on it. I can't remember the FBI complaining that phones didn't store enough information, and were hindering their efforts back then?
Also, a Muslim President would be another problem IMO - it would be very difficult to criticize his policies (especially if those policies were even partially based on his religion) without somebody calling you a racist
London has a muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, and he is doing just fine. Doing a lot better than the former mayor, the incompetent and lying Boris Johnson, also known as mini-Trump.
If a person attempts to commit murder it is attempted murder. Hate is a motive not a crime. If a person actually commits murder it is murder. It is not more or less of a crime if the person belongs to a protected minority. That a person hates is not really relevant.
There is actually a good reason for this, and that is maths. Assume you have 10,000 people, and 1,000 of them are member of some minority. And there are 10 people among those 10,000 who are willing to kill just because of someone's race. Nine from the majority, one from the minority. If you are a member of the majority, your chance of becoming a victim is one in 9,000. If you are a member of the minority, your chance of becoming a victim is one in 111. Clearly this is a good reason for laws protecting the minority.
Assumptions based on what I've read: The contractor's actions appear to have been intentional, applied after termination, done without company directive, and did harm to the business. I think this ticks a lot of the boxes of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
There is one essential thing missing: He wasn't hacking into the computer. That's what makes the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" apply, and that's not there. For example, a bank employee who is authorised to give people loans and transfer money into their bank accounts, and transfers money into his own account, is surely guilty of theft - but the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" doesn't apply. As far as hacking laws are concerned, he wasn't hacking.
Anyone else is not the president of the US. Also - there was no authorization to disable his account. So - the perp was violating company policy
You got this totally wrong. This is not about whether he should have disabled this account or not. He shouldn't have, and would have been fired about it if he hadn't left already.
This is about whether he is guilty of abusing his ex-employer's computers. And he clearly was authorized to delete accounts.
A similar recent case was about a woman whose job it was to operate a computer that fills out lottery tickets, and take payment for those tickets from customers. She used the computer to fill out about 1,000 tickets per week for herself without paying. The result: Guilty of theft. Not guilty of abusing the computer, because she was authorized to operate it.
In all of the EU, the warranty will be 2 years, even in GB, for now.
Careful. Warranty is whatever the manufacturer decides, in this case 1 year. In addition, you have consumer protection laws, which mean that the _seller_, not the manufacturer, is responsible that the product should work for a reasonable amount of time. And for phones someone seems to have decided that two years is a reasonable amount of time.
When you say "for now": EU law says that Apple has to provide the same warranty everywhere in the EU. So that won't apply to the UK anymore in 2019. And I think if Apple is the seller (not just manufacturer), then any Apple Store in the EU will count as "seller" and have to fix problems; that won't apply to the UK anymore in 2019.
Up until they commit the myriad of other offences, such as driving unlicensed, identity theft (often a felony), uttering false documents (often a felony), impersonating a US Citizen (a crime), failure to file taxes (also a crime), etc.
Well, if they took away your driving license, your right to work, etc. you would commit all these crimes as well. So what you say is rather asinine.
Tech companies never met an immigrant they don't like because more supply of workers means you can pay them less. If there were fewer workers then you would have to pay them more. If you've already made your money you benefit from having tons of surplus labor around.
You could ask Tim Cook if any of Apple's 300 "dreamer" employees are paid less than their colleagues doing the same work.
You're right, that the kids are victims, but of their parents choices, not the state. The state enforcing the law and deporting them is just an ultimately inevitable outcome of their illegal status, or should be at least. Don't like it? then don't be in the US illegally. Simple.
Consider how it works in a more civilised country, like the UK. After staying long enough in the UK, you receive "permanent residence status", which means you have the right to live and work in the UK, the right to return to the UK unless you leave for more than two years, the right to benefits etc. If you enter the UK legally, you receive this after five years, or ten years if your visa didn't allow for permanent stay. If you enter the UK illegally, you receive this after fourteen years.
So the people we are talking about here would mostly have no problems in the UK at all. In the USA, it's only a problem because you've got a president who needs to show that he is some kind of twitter tough guy.
Illegal immigrants were and still are having anchor babies just as a tactical strategy. There needs to be a clear deterrent to that.
What the fuck. We are talking about people here who have been in the USA for twenty or more years, who cannot remember ever living in a different place. You want to throw them out because of "teh law". But anyone born in the USA is a US citizen, that's the law. So you want to follow the law then it suits your prejudices, and not follow the law when it doesn't?
ÃoeDreamersà , what a stupid name. Deport their sorry asses and let them complain to their criminal parents for dragging them to US.
I would suggest that assholes like you should be deported first, preferably to some hellhole in Syria.
These people have done nothing wrong in their life. Their only problem is being born in the wrong country. You, on the other hand, have demonstrated that you should be let nowhere near any decent people.
When a site says "remember my credit card info for future purchases", they are still not allowed to store your credit card number. They are allowed to convert the credit card number into a token that allows transfer of money from your bank account to Pizza Hut's bank account, and to use that token when you order again. That kind of token is useless to any hacker except to create a bit of mischief, because it can only used to send money to Pizza Hut, and not to anyone else.
Why should we believe what Apple is reporting . . . ? Maybe the true number is 4,000 % . . . would Apple tell us the truth, if the government did not want us to know . . . ?
Why wouldn't they? The government specifically set the rules so that companies like Apple are only allowed to report a range of 250. The assumption was obviously that Apple for example would report "1 to 250 requests" and the public would be left to guess. Now they are allowed to report "13,001 to 13,250", so that's what they do.
It is better than two separate drives because data is moved to the better suited drive automatically at a 128KB block level, not at a file level.
Typically, all the directory structures will be on the SSD drive, all the parts of the operating system that you actually use. If you have a huge iTunes library, it is likely that most music files are on the slower hard drive, while the portions of those files containing album art that are displayed a lot are on the SSD drive.
You don't waste time moving files to the right place. All the space of the SSD drive is used, if you do it manually you probably don't use more than 80%.. To improve file writes, 4GB of space on the SSD drive are used as a write buffer. That means all writes go to the SSD drive first (quickly, written sequentially at optimal speed) and later on the OS sorts out where the data should really go in the background.
Technical demonstration for the non-haters: Fusion drive is a combination of a hard drive and an SSD. It hasn't been around for nearly a decade, but was introduced in late 2012. The technology is not available on a MAC (Media Access Controller) but on various Macintosh computers. It combines the speed of an SSD drive with the huge size of large hard drive. It is very much appreciated by many customers as they are very good at getting the best value for money and allows for example huge collections of video or music to be stored at reasonable cost, while giving fast access to data that is used a lot.
For example, a combination of 3TB hard drive and 128GB SSD is a lot faster than just a 3TB hard drive, and a lot cheaper than a 3TB SSD drive.
On one hand, that shows you are ignorant. On the other hand, maybe you are just too young. On the gripping hand, most likely you are an ignorant arse who is proud of his ignorance, and that's why you had to post.
In order to apply for DACA, immigrants had to be younger than 31 on June 15, 2012 and the average age of DACA beneficiaries is 25. These are not children but are income tax evaders.
These people applied for DACA, which means they are known to the authorities, and have to pay income tax just like anyone else known to US authorities, that is just like US citizens, and foreigners who live and work in the USA legally. No income tax evaders.
Obama, from what I understand really overstepped his constitutional powers by enacting this in the first place.
Well, your understanding is wrong.
There are an estimated 10 million people present in the USA who could legally be deported. Deportation costs money, therefore about 400,000 a year only get deported. So someone needs to decide who gets deported first, who gets deported second and so on.
Obama had the right to give orders which priorities should be followed determining who goes first. And he gave orders, quite reasonably, that people who were raised in the USA and lived there most of their lives, had jobs, paid taxes and health insurance, should be at the very end of the list. That was absolutely within his rights.
Quite frankly you will have a hard time even finding Mac users who could tell you what the current file system used on the Mac is and even fewer that could tell you why it matters.
Actually, since all iOS devices with the latest iOS version are supposedly using AFPS... How would you actually find out whether your iPhone uses HFS+ or AFPS? There's probably an OS call to find out the name of the file system, but if that call was faked, how would you actually find out?
Here's the thing: iOS 10.3 included an upgrade to APFS. Since March, every updated iPhone and iPad has been running this in production.
Actually, iOS 10.1 and iOS 10.2 created the complete AFPS metadata while leaving the HFS+ metadata intact, then tested carefully that all the AFPS data structures were Ok and the metadata was the same as before, and then they just didn't do the last step of throwing HFS+ away and keeping AFPS only.
So there were two revisions that would have found and survived any errors in AFPS, and the third one was the first one that had to be error free.
Additionally, the core of the filesystem uses case-insensitive NFD Unicode strings, which led Linus Torvalds to say that "HFS+ is probably the worst file-system ever."
That's the difference between Linux and MacOS. One is designed for users.
There's a hardware cost, but there's also a non-trivial software cost -- to maintain two compiler versions, support two versions of applications, etc.
I've shipped MacOS applications built for three different processors (PowerPC 32 bit, x86 32 and 64 bit), and lots of people ship iPhone apps for three different processors (armv7, armv7s, aarch64). Apple has no problem whatsoever supporting any number of different processors if they want to.
If Apple built an iPhone with an Intel processor for example, that wouldn't be more than five minutes time for most developers.
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This only works on really old iPhones. The count is kept in the Secure Enclave since the iPhone 6 I believe.
Since iPhone 5s actually. The iPhone 5 and the iPhone 5c in the Bernardino case were the last phone models that didn't use the secure enclave to store the count.
On the other hand, had the Bernardino killer used a six digit passcode, then it would have taken easily a year to unlock the phone. Eight digit passcode = 100 year. I have no idea what data you could extract from a 100 year old iPhone.
If Apple can update the firmware to prevent bricking the phone then they can update the phone to match any pin.
That's not how it works. The iPhone doesn't check that you entered the correct pin. What it does is calculating a decryption key for one key stored in the CPU (which cannot be extracted by any means), one key stored in the flash drive (freely readable), and the pin. Someone needs to enter the correct pin. Without that, the iPhone is totally incapable of reading most data on the phone.
(There is some data that is encrypted _without_ the pin code. That makes it possible for example to use the calculator, take photos, call emergency services without entering the pin).
Apple's argument for not producing a customized version of the OS is that the FBI would surely leak it out, which would then endanger 100s of millions of phone users. And unfortunately, there is now precedence for that fear: The "wannacry" malware, which took for example many computers in Britain's national health service down, was stolen from the NSA. And I would have thought the NSA would be better than the FBI at keeping secrets, because that's their job.
Ten years ago, that shooter would have had a Nokia phone. With no information stored on it. I can't remember the FBI complaining that phones didn't store enough information, and were hindering their efforts back then?
Also, a Muslim President would be another problem IMO - it would be very difficult to criticize his policies (especially if those policies were even partially based on his religion) without somebody calling you a racist
London has a muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, and he is doing just fine. Doing a lot better than the former mayor, the incompetent and lying Boris Johnson, also known as mini-Trump.
If a person attempts to commit murder it is attempted murder. Hate is a motive not a crime. If a person actually commits murder it is murder. It is not more or less of a crime if the person belongs to a protected minority. That a person hates is not really relevant.
There is actually a good reason for this, and that is maths. Assume you have 10,000 people, and 1,000 of them are member of some minority. And there are 10 people among those 10,000 who are willing to kill just because of someone's race. Nine from the majority, one from the minority. If you are a member of the majority, your chance of becoming a victim is one in 9,000. If you are a member of the minority, your chance of becoming a victim is one in 111. Clearly this is a good reason for laws protecting the minority.
Assumptions based on what I've read: The contractor's actions appear to have been intentional, applied after termination, done without company directive, and did harm to the business. I think this ticks a lot of the boxes of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
There is one essential thing missing: He wasn't hacking into the computer. That's what makes the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" apply, and that's not there. For example, a bank employee who is authorised to give people loans and transfer money into their bank accounts, and transfers money into his own account, is surely guilty of theft - but the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" doesn't apply. As far as hacking laws are concerned, he wasn't hacking.
Anyone else is not the president of the US. Also - there was no authorization to disable his account. So - the perp was violating company policy
You got this totally wrong. This is not about whether he should have disabled this account or not. He shouldn't have, and would have been fired about it if he hadn't left already.
This is about whether he is guilty of abusing his ex-employer's computers. And he clearly was authorized to delete accounts.
A similar recent case was about a woman whose job it was to operate a computer that fills out lottery tickets, and take payment for those tickets from customers. She used the computer to fill out about 1,000 tickets per week for herself without paying. The result: Guilty of theft. Not guilty of abusing the computer, because she was authorized to operate it.
In all of the EU, the warranty will be 2 years, even in GB, for now.
Careful. Warranty is whatever the manufacturer decides, in this case 1 year. In addition, you have consumer protection laws, which mean that the _seller_, not the manufacturer, is responsible that the product should work for a reasonable amount of time. And for phones someone seems to have decided that two years is a reasonable amount of time.
When you say "for now": EU law says that Apple has to provide the same warranty everywhere in the EU. So that won't apply to the UK anymore in 2019. And I think if Apple is the seller (not just manufacturer), then any Apple Store in the EU will count as "seller" and have to fix problems; that won't apply to the UK anymore in 2019.
Up until they commit the myriad of other offences, such as driving unlicensed, identity theft (often a felony), uttering false documents (often a felony), impersonating a US Citizen (a crime), failure to file taxes (also a crime), etc.
Well, if they took away your driving license, your right to work, etc. you would commit all these crimes as well. So what you say is rather asinine.
Tech companies never met an immigrant they don't like because more supply of workers means you can pay them less. If there were fewer workers then you would have to pay them more. If you've already made your money you benefit from having tons of surplus labor around.
You could ask Tim Cook if any of Apple's 300 "dreamer" employees are paid less than their colleagues doing the same work.
You're right, that the kids are victims, but of their parents choices, not the state. The state enforcing the law and deporting them is just an ultimately inevitable outcome of their illegal status, or should be at least. Don't like it? then don't be in the US illegally. Simple.
Consider how it works in a more civilised country, like the UK. After staying long enough in the UK, you receive "permanent residence status", which means you have the right to live and work in the UK, the right to return to the UK unless you leave for more than two years, the right to benefits etc. If you enter the UK legally, you receive this after five years, or ten years if your visa didn't allow for permanent stay. If you enter the UK illegally, you receive this after fourteen years.
So the people we are talking about here would mostly have no problems in the UK at all. In the USA, it's only a problem because you've got a president who needs to show that he is some kind of twitter tough guy.
Illegal immigrants were and still are having anchor babies just as a tactical strategy. There needs to be a clear deterrent to that.
What the fuck. We are talking about people here who have been in the USA for twenty or more years, who cannot remember ever living in a different place. You want to throw them out because of "teh law". But anyone born in the USA is a US citizen, that's the law. So you want to follow the law then it suits your prejudices, and not follow the law when it doesn't?
ÃoeDreamersà , what a stupid name. Deport their sorry asses and let them complain to their criminal parents for dragging them to US.
I would suggest that assholes like you should be deported first, preferably to some hellhole in Syria.
These people have done nothing wrong in their life. Their only problem is being born in the wrong country. You, on the other hand, have demonstrated that you should be let nowhere near any decent people.
It's double illegal to store the CVV number.
When a site says "remember my credit card info for future purchases", they are still not allowed to store your credit card number. They are allowed to convert the credit card number into a token that allows transfer of money from your bank account to Pizza Hut's bank account, and to use that token when you order again. That kind of token is useless to any hacker except to create a bit of mischief, because it can only used to send money to Pizza Hut, and not to anyone else.
Why should we believe what Apple is reporting . . . ? Maybe the true number is 4,000 % . . . would Apple tell us the truth, if the government did not want us to know . . . ?
Why wouldn't they? The government specifically set the rules so that companies like Apple are only allowed to report a range of 250. The assumption was obviously that Apple for example would report "1 to 250 requests" and the public would be left to guess. Now they are allowed to report "13,001 to 13,250", so that's what they do.
It is better than two separate drives because data is moved to the better suited drive automatically at a 128KB block level, not at a file level.
Typically, all the directory structures will be on the SSD drive, all the parts of the operating system that you actually use. If you have a huge iTunes library, it is likely that most music files are on the slower hard drive, while the portions of those files containing album art that are displayed a lot are on the SSD drive.
You don't waste time moving files to the right place. All the space of the SSD drive is used, if you do it manually you probably don't use more than 80%.. To improve file writes, 4GB of space on the SSD drive are used as a write buffer. That means all writes go to the SSD drive first (quickly, written sequentially at optimal speed) and later on the OS sorts out where the data should really go in the background.
Technical demonstration for the non-haters: Fusion drive is a combination of a hard drive and an SSD. It hasn't been around for nearly a decade, but was introduced in late 2012. The technology is not available on a MAC (Media Access Controller) but on various Macintosh computers. It combines the speed of an SSD drive with the huge size of large hard drive. It is very much appreciated by many customers as they are very good at getting the best value for money and allows for example huge collections of video or music to be stored at reasonable cost, while giving fast access to data that is used a lot.
For example, a combination of 3TB hard drive and 128GB SSD is a lot faster than just a 3TB hard drive, and a lot cheaper than a 3TB SSD drive.
On one hand, that shows you are ignorant. On the other hand, maybe you are just too young. On the gripping hand, most likely you are an ignorant arse who is proud of his ignorance, and that's why you had to post.
In order to apply for DACA, immigrants had to be younger than 31 on June 15, 2012 and the average age of DACA beneficiaries is 25. These are not children but are income tax evaders.
These people applied for DACA, which means they are known to the authorities, and have to pay income tax just like anyone else known to US authorities, that is just like US citizens, and foreigners who live and work in the USA legally. No income tax evaders.
Obama, from what I understand really overstepped his constitutional powers by enacting this in the first place.
Well, your understanding is wrong.
There are an estimated 10 million people present in the USA who could legally be deported. Deportation costs money, therefore about 400,000 a year only get deported. So someone needs to decide who gets deported first, who gets deported second and so on.
Obama had the right to give orders which priorities should be followed determining who goes first. And he gave orders, quite reasonably, that people who were raised in the USA and lived there most of their lives, had jobs, paid taxes and health insurance, should be at the very end of the list. That was absolutely within his rights.
Quite frankly you will have a hard time even finding Mac users who could tell you what the current file system used on the Mac is and even fewer that could tell you why it matters.
Actually, since all iOS devices with the latest iOS version are supposedly using AFPS... How would you actually find out whether your iPhone uses HFS+ or AFPS? There's probably an OS call to find out the name of the file system, but if that call was faked, how would you actually find out?
Here's the thing: iOS 10.3 included an upgrade to APFS. Since March, every updated iPhone and iPad has been running this in production.
Actually, iOS 10.1 and iOS 10.2 created the complete AFPS metadata while leaving the HFS+ metadata intact, then tested carefully that all the AFPS data structures were Ok and the metadata was the same as before, and then they just didn't do the last step of throwing HFS+ away and keeping AFPS only.
So there were two revisions that would have found and survived any errors in AFPS, and the third one was the first one that had to be error free.
Additionally, the core of the filesystem uses case-insensitive NFD Unicode strings, which led Linus Torvalds to say that "HFS+ is probably the worst file-system ever."
That's the difference between Linux and MacOS. One is designed for users.
There's a hardware cost, but there's also a non-trivial software cost -- to maintain two compiler versions, support two versions of applications, etc.
I've shipped MacOS applications built for three different processors (PowerPC 32 bit, x86 32 and 64 bit), and lots of people ship iPhone apps for three different processors (armv7, armv7s, aarch64). Apple has no problem whatsoever supporting any number of different processors if they want to.
If Apple built an iPhone with an Intel processor for example, that wouldn't be more than five minutes time for most developers.