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FBI Hacker Says Apple Are 'Jerks' and 'Evil Geniuses' for Encrypting iPhones
Motherboard ^ | January 10, 2018 | by Lorenzo Franceschi Bicchierai

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: applepinglist; fake; fakenews; fbi; overreach; privacy
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To: Boomer

dittos


41 posted on 01/12/2018 9:55:06 AM PST by grwcfl537
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To: cba123

What brand of “quality” phone is made here in the US if ya have the time ..... ?


42 posted on 01/12/2018 10:10:48 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Swordmaker

Just an FYI.
Government is uses Apple iPhones for confidential conversations BECAUSE they are secure. NASA actually uses Apple Pro laptops for their work because of the security.

BlackBerry had backdoors installed, and those keys were lost to the public domain. Now one can sit and ponder how the US Government lost all the data on everyone who applied for a classified clearance, or how everyone in the Federal Employees pool had their personal information stolen, all the bad guys had to do was use the Blackberry back doors.


43 posted on 01/12/2018 3:58:42 PM PST by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: raybbr
The main reason I think Apple are jerks is because I can’t simply drag and drop music into an iPhone.

Have you bothered to consider “why” Apple does this? If you can drag and drop music, you can drag and drop ANYTHING. VIri, Trojans, malware, ANYTHING.

Apple spent a great deal of time to prevent fools from themselves, and they don’t even get a “thank you” for the FREE APP that provides the security; yet allows you to add books, apps, blogs, music, and video

44 posted on 01/12/2018 4:08:49 PM PST by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Hodar
Have you bothered to consider “why” Apple does this?

Yes, to force you to use their app so you'll give up trying to load music you've ripped from discs you own to pay them for the same music.

If you can drag and drop music, you can drag and drop ANYTHING. VIri, Trojans, malware, ANYTHING.

Hasn't happened to me ever.

Apple spent a great deal of time to prevent fools from themselves, and they don’t even get a “thank you” for the FREE APP that provides the security; yet allows you to add books, apps, blogs, music, and video

That's just frikken' hysterical. It DOESN'T allow to add whatever you want. There are no cogent directions anywhere an how to add music to an iphone. I have several songs that are greyed out in "my phone" but there is no explanation as to why. They are in my library but I can't play them on my iphone.

OH, they gave me an app! Holy shit! I'm so glad. Well, no I'm not. Even MS's music app Zune was leaps and bounds easier to use. I could even have the same music library on different computers. It didn't limit me to one effin' computer to hold all my music so if that computer crashes my effin' library is gone.

You really amaze me in your post. Do you really think iTunes is some sort of freebie app that we should be grateful for? If so, you are very definition of apply fanboy.

45 posted on 01/12/2018 5:35:39 PM PST by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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Call a “Waaaaaambulance” for the poor FBI!
Not sorry for them:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/devin-nunes-accuses-fbi-doj-of-demonstrating-abuse-of-government-surveillance-programs/article/2645818


46 posted on 01/12/2018 5:50:36 PM PST by Drago
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