Apple's Upcoming iOS 12 and macOS 14 Mojave
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All apps should be forced to play in it’s own sandbox, and only have toys thrown in to it by the OS upon request and with the established permission of the user. Any system not set up this way is obnoxious
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Both Grayshift and Cellebrite cater to law-enforcement agencies. The use of such equipment is controversial, and Apple has taken a hard-line stance on scenarios involving cracking its security: In 2016, it refused to help the FBI break into an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter. Then there’s the potential for this sort of technology to fall into the hands of rogue nation-states or criminals.
Which is why, in iOS 12, Apple has implemented a “Disable USB Access” access feature that blocks the ability for the iPhone to transfer data to a USB device, like the GrayKey, if the correct passcode hasn’t been entered on the device in the last 60 minutes. That timeframe is way too short for the GrayKey to work its security-defeating magic. In other words, Apple is bricking the GrayKey and other devices like it. That’s bad news for Grayshift and the organizations that have shelled out up to $30,000 for its box.
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Good!
Apple is pissing off the right people.
Good for Apple on all counts. Now if they could just add a physical hardware mute switch to cut off the microphone like putting a post-it note over the lens blocks the camera. A software switch can be bypassed with other software, but a millimeter gap in the microphone line is hard to sneakily reconnect.
Good article! Glad Apple is leading the way.
I turned off my iphone7 yesterday and got a dumb flip phone.
How good is all this security if they move all phones to be unlocked by facial recognition?
Cops/ criminals just take your phone and hold it in front of your (live or dead) face and it’s unlocked?