Posted on 01/11/2018 10:34:05 PM PST by Swordmaker
An FBI forensic expert lambasted Apple for making iPhones hard to hack into.
Ever since Apple made encryption default on the iPhone, the FBI has been waging a war against encryption, complaining that cryptography so strong the company itself can’t break it makes it harder to catch criminals and terrorists.
On Wednesday, at the the International Conference on Cyber Security in Manhattan, FBI forensic expert Stephen Flatley lashed out at Apple, calling the company “jerks,” and “evil geniuses” for making his and his colleagues' investigative work harder. For example, Flatley complained that Apple recently made password guesses slower, changing the hash iterations from 10,000 to 10,000,000.
That means, he explained, that “password attempts speed went from 45 passwords a second to one every 18 seconds,” referring to the difficulty of cracking a password using a “brute force” method in which every possible permutation is tried. There are tools that can input thousands of passwords in a very short period of time—if the attempts per minute are limited, it becomes much harder and slower to crack.
"Your crack time just went from two days to two months," Flatley said.
(Excerpt) Read more at motherboard.vice.com ...
Two million U.S. jobs. And counting.The numbers tell the story. Apple is one of the biggest job creators in the United States, responsible for two million jobs in all 50 states. Last year, we spent over $50 billion with more than 9,000 U.S. suppliers and manufacturers. Since we launched the App Store in 2008, U.S. developers have earned over $16 billion in App Store sales worldwide. And we’re just getting started.
You're complaining about the wrong company! Apple is the only company making computers and smart phones here, and not in communist China. People need to spread the word to stop using Samsung phones, which are produced in Samsung owned factories in communist China with communist Chinese labor employed directly by Samsung. Apple does not employ any workers in China to make products; their only workers there are salespeople. Surprises me as to how ignorant people are when they beat the drum against Apple, when Apple is making products here in the USA, but not countless other companies.
Agreed
I don’t agree with you on that.
Apple doesn’t technically make the phones. Yes I agree. But Apple sells the phones, made as iPhones, which ARE made in China. They are made by a company from Taiwan, which makes them in Communist China, but they are Apple phones.
Samsung phones also, yes they are made in Communist China. But so are iPhones.
Same-same. Basically.
Both are made in China. Basically.
At least that is sure my understanding of things.
where in the constituency does it say we need a federal secret police ?
the FBI is way out of line here. The FBI is a rouge agency and should be disbanded.
drain the swamp
The main reason I think Apple are jerks is because I can’t simply drag and drop music into an iPhone.
Spokesman for totally corrupt FBI....DOJ
“We want you Big Brother” David Bowie 1984
So just by extending the lock screen password from 4 characters to 6 characters is a crime against the country?
He's nuts, and I don't want to spend the time to read more of this Vice article.
Wait until Flatley finds out that serious folks are using 2048 bit encryption. Try to brute force that password, at least in the next few years.
And then technology will march on.
#MeToo.
The difference, I suppose, is that the government persecuted Zimmerman for many years, threatening imprisonment, etc. Now all they can do is call Apple stupid names.
I suppose that's a considerable improvement.
The FIB is full of criminals, so they need to pull the plank out of their own eye.
Hey FIB, your track record on catching crooks and terrorists before the fact is poor anyway. I’ll take my chances. I prefer liberty over your polticized spying. Sod off.
And, if the gubmint wasn’t so keen to collect so much on all the citizens, it never would have come about.....
“Doing business in the US is a privilege, not a right. With it comes some responsibility and accountability.”
The 4th Amendment is a Right, not a privilege.
It comes down to Law.
Really? So, an American should have to ask the government for permission to go into business?
Are you sure you're on the right site?
Given a legal, public court order or warrant, Apple should make the device accessible, same with other manufacturers.
No. Apple should not be required be law, which is what it would take, to make their product's security purposefully weak, just to please the feral government. Some of are quite happy with the security of Apple products, and prefer them to stay that way. It's not even particularly government criminals that I'm particularly worried about, but rather your garden variety criminal without the power of the state behind him, who might steal my phone and then use the information contained therein for nefarious purposes, such as identity theft among other things.
Yeah, I hate the fact that there is no Linux support at all for iPhones that I'm aware of. Sucks. I actually have a Win-7 VM that has just one reason for existing. I use it to back up my phone prior to a major update. The whole 'itunes' thing is annoying in the extreme to me. Doesn't stop me from using an iPhone, but yeah, it's annoying.
Is that a reference to Hoover's cross-dressing habits?
I disagree. The government has no given right to be able to access everything anytime they want.
Let them get a warrant for each and every individual device they want to get into and put an end to this surveillance state that was used to try to overthrow our last Presidential election.
Our surveillance state is too dangerous and too powerful to trust.
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