Apple addressing security concerns.

[jledou]

Love the conversation Mark and Dave.

IMO - If a back door is there, it will be found by someone who wants it bad enough even if "all" precautions have been made to try to ensure that only a limited entity such as the government has the backdoor.

[markem]

Originally Posted by jledou

Love the conversation Mark and Dave.

IMO - If a back door is there, it will be found by someone who wants it bad enough even if "all" precautions have been made to try to ensure that only a limited entity such as the government has the backdoor.

Statements by Apple and the EFF indicate that the feds seem to want a way to break the security via a "special update". quite novel if auto updates are turned on for the phone. Problematic if the solution is that trivial.

There *may* be other ways to accomplish what the feds want, but having Apple do it may be the safe way to go. For example, they may be able to put in a different firmwear chip that bypasses some aspects of the security. I don't think that Apple would design a product to be susceptible to this since this would make certain governments (<cough>China<cough>) very happy. Still, the general technique called a teardown might be a productive route. Teardowns are destructive to the device, but a way around the security might be found.

Maybe IBM should get in to the smartphone business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_4758

I'm not sure why the FBI doesn't just clone the drive and break in to it via a virtual machine. The RCFLs (FBI regional computer forensic labs) have that ability. At least the one here in Portland does.

Full disclosure, I've done work in the area of computer forensics in the past. Not now though. http://psuvanguard.com/psu-profs-moo...th-detectives/