Posted on 03/10/2016 5:50:32 PM PST by Nachum
That’s why Apple makes them without easily removable batteries.
If I didn’t want the government monitoring me on my Blackberry, I just popped off the back and pulled the battery out. I don’t *think* they monitor my current phone, but I can pop the battery out if it, as well.
Yep. Just like the body scan by the TSA: they’ll save the ones from the hot babes. All for national security.
No reason why this company should be above the law.
I really don’t care to defend the liberal Tim Cook.
How bout the warrantless searches? Who gets the blame for those?
What about our freedoms?
I have to side with Apple on this one. The Government would certainly abuse our right to privacy given the chance.
Maybe we should put our iPhone into airplane mode and put them in an ESD bag.
The government is asking (or demanding) that Apple write software that currently does not exist. Apple can’t just magically enter in the passcode to unlock the phone. They don’t know what the passcode is.
I don’t own a smart phone. I’ve been saying all along that they do not bring much value into one’s life. Long live Luddites.
Yes.
Myth.
The govt. didn’t “ask” for anything, they showed up with a court order and said, “You work for us now.” I’d have told them to go suck it, too. The NSA could get into that phone within 20 minutes, that’s not what this is about.
There is no way to make a smartphone secure.
Even the silicon of large scale SoC’s are likely compromised.
I think the uproar about needing Apple to break their devices is just crap to make people believe smartphones are secure.
You could make a smartphone secure with a simple external device designed to transfer secure data over an insecure network... I posted about this the other day...see below.
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You can make a perfectly secure computing device but it needs to be very simple.
A cheap microcontroller, a noisy diode(for random number gen), a simple display, a few buttons for data entry and control along with a few other simple parts and you have the device.
The software needs to be simple as well and of course open-source for peer review.
You can generate random numbers onto a pair of uSD cards and use that data to pass symmetric keys using the unbreakable one-time-pad method or use a public key system with adequate key length to pass symmetric keys.
It’s nearly impossible to secure a modern SoC based device like a smartphone....just too much complexity resulting in many attack vectors. But you can make a tiny external device and use it in conjunction with a smartphone to pass secure data over an insecure network.
You could build the external device into a protective case for a smartphone... data linking to the phone could be via audio or blue tooth. Both text and data could be handled easily using blue tooth.
Totally unbreakable as long as the private keys are generated on-the-fly and properly discarded or the one-time-pad data is properly discarded as it is used.
The one-time-pad method of symmetric key gen is cumbersome and has the key distribution problem but is mathematically provable to be totally secure.
The only technical attack possible IMO would be through compromised silicon and that’s unlikely when using a mass market uc like a cheap 32bit ARM. Compromised silicon is much more likely when using a complex SoC.
Smartphones sure bring value into my life. For >4 years my salary comes from writing apps.
You can read the court order yourself, here:
http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/SB-Shooter-Order-Compelling-Apple-Asst-iPhone.pdf
BS
I would think that they could do this already do this with your old analog cell phones. Which is why they want to have it now. I don’t believe this is a new feature request.
Once the govt bans citizen privacy, only the govt will have secrecy.
Thanks folks. That clarifies it for me. ;)
Black tape over the camera lens.
A BRAND NEW APP (or mod)—the ‘off’ switch.
Problem solved.
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