Apple v. FBI Schadenfreude
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Posted on 01/14/2017 3:16:10 AM PST by Swordmaker
Cellebrite, the third-party which the FBI contracted with to unlock the San Bernardino terrorists' iPhone 5, has itself been hacked and the data and techniques it used to hack that iPhone 5 among others of its proprietary technology were stolen, just as I predicted would happen if Apple were forced to provide a back-door as the FBI wanted! Vanity Fair has an article on the Cellebrite crime but I cannot post it due to copyright issues. Here is the link only. — Swordmaker
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/a-hacker-just-proved-that-apple-may-have-been-right-about-the-fbi
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Remember Obama going after Kaspersky and Macaffee?
And how we couldn’t really figure out what the purpose really was?
Turns out the FBI has a malware snoop program and they asked various antivirus companies to leave an exception in the definitions used to detect malware.
Kaspersky and Macaffee both told the feebs to pound sand.
Fast forward, Windows 10 calls home with enough data that malware backdoors aren’t needed.
Same with Google data collection.
I wouldn’t doubt that the feeb malware has been collected, decompiled, and repurposed already.
/ End tangential related musing.
Fast forward, Windows 10 calls home with enough data that malware backdoors aren’t needed.
Same with Google data collection.
Add in self-reporting by all the nitwits on Facebook and the Feds have a total surveillance state. Of course all that data wont do them a bit of good in stopping terrorism when their goal is not stopping terrorism, but instead protecting the Deep State.
Can’t sleep? How is your wife doing?
I remember the 1990s when libs threw a fit that Monica Lewinsky’s book purchase(s) at some store were subpoenaed (I think to corroborate some discussion on the tapes).
I told the libs that it was offensive that the bookstores even KEPT such records as to who purchased what, when. Transaction is done, go home like a whore. BEGONE.
A few years back, the gummint asked the makers of my favorite encryption program to put in a back door. Which they did. Soon after, millions of credit card numbers from one of their biggest clients got hacked and the encryption company went belly up.
I am still using the last version of their program from before it got “fixed”.
Who is on the committee that will report to Trump in 90 days about cyber security?
First off, I love the Microsoft-bashing FReepers who can turn ANY article into something bad about MS. Bravo!
Second, please cite your sources.
Microsoft's privacy policy is pretty clear on what is collected, and there are dozens of settings both in the OS and associated with your MS account where you can control the data going to MS.
Further, there are hundreds of articles on how to adjust collection settings in Windows 10. If you're not concerned enough to search for it, then you're part of the problem.
My doc asked me (in my mid 70s) if I got up at night, and told me to take melatonin. Stuff works; I haven’t gotten up in the wee hours unable to sleep and unable to stay in bed since I started using it.Comes in 1,3, 5,and 10 mg; I started out at 1 and got as high as 5mg during the election. Thank God for that outcome.
Never had a feeling of being “drugged” by it, but had some occasions when I slept in a bit. Which never happened to me without it, since I’ve been retired. I used 2 last nite.
Maybe he hacked McCain.
...don’t think so,I think McCain was tipped off he was caught and came clean....not that it matters.
If you think your data isn’t being collected in other operating environments, you’re a dullard.
how to adjust collection settings in Windows 10.
Who was the courier?
Who paid for the fabrication?
Your line of thinking is very narrow. You think your personal information is safe posting on FaceBook? Twitter? Instagram? How about FR? Notice there’s no SSL on FR. You think your conversations and transactions on this website are safe? You think your personal information isn’t being traded by your bank? Your brokerage firm? Your mortgage lender? How about the dealership where you bought your last car? Amazon? Grocery rewards clubs? How about your phone provider? Cable company?
If you think that the OS you use insulates you from your personal information being distributed and traded, you need to change your thinking. I’d trust a corporation like Microsoft with my personal information more than the open source community. Microsoft is the number one security company in the world. They also have a HELL of a lot more to lose by a breach than Slackware, Ubuntu, Mint, or any of the other flavors of Linux out there.
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