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RE: FBI v Apple

RJS (undefined) posted this on Wednesday, 2nd March 2016, 08:35

Not the same case, sorry should have made that clear, but a request for the same thing by the same people, just in a different state.

John McAfee's offer to open the iPhone for the FBI:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/john-mcafee-better-prepare-to-eat-a-shoe-because-he-doesnt-know-how-iphones-work/

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Now I'll probably lose my admission to the world hackers' community, however, I'm gonna tell you. You need a hardware engineer and a software engineer. The hardware engineer takes the phone apart and it [sic] copies the instruction set, which is the iOS and applications [sic] and your memory, and then you run a piece, a program called a disassembler which takes all the ones and zeroes and gives you readable instructions. Then, the coder sits down and he reads through, and what he's looking for is the first access to the keypad, because that's the first thing you're doing when you input your pad. It'll take half an hour. When you see that, then you reads the instruction for where in memory this secret code is stored. It is that trivial. A half an hour.

Er, half an hour? For all that?

Don't worry John, you will have lost your admission to the world hackers community, but you still get to keep your lifetime entry key to the marketing and bullshit community.

I'm off to hack myself some free Sky TV, all I have to do is open up the box, copy the instruction set and memory, dissassemble the software and find the bit that says you can't watch the Sports channels, should take me about half an hour.

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RE: FBI v Apple

Snaps (Elite) posted this on Wednesday, 2nd March 2016, 10:16

Quite a useful overview of encryption
At least for those of us a bit less Techy 

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[VIDEO] RE: FBI v Apple

RJS (undefined) posted this on Friday, 4th March 2016, 15:10

A good video on why this matters:




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RE: [VIDEO] FBI v Apple

RJS (undefined) posted this on Tuesday, 8th March 2016, 11:02

John McAfee admits lying about how to crack the iPhone:
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/john-mcafee-lied-iphone-apple-fbi/

His reasons are so insane:

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“By doing so, I knew that I would get a s***load of public attention, which I did,” McAfee said. “That video, on my YouTube account, it has 700,000 views. My point is to bring to the American public the problem that the FBI is trying to [fool] the American public. How am I going to do that, by just going off and saying it? No one is going to listen to that crap.

“So I come up with something sensational,” he continued. “Now, what I did not lie about was my ability to crack the iPhone. I can do it. It’s a piece of friggin’ cake. You could probably do it.”



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RE: [VIDEO] FBI v Apple

Snaps (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 8th March 2016, 12:24

Would you really want your computer security down to a company run by that fruitcake?

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RE: [VIDEO] FBI v Apple

RJS (undefined) posted this on Tuesday, 8th March 2016, 15:13

That must be a constantly depressing thing for Intel, who currently own McAfee and it's antivirus products. He has had nothing to do with them for years.

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RE: [VIDEO] FBI v Apple

Snaps (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 8th March 2016, 16:45

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Rob Shepherd says...
"He has had nothing to do with them for years"

In which case, unless there's some really dumb clause in the takeover/buyout, I'd suggest it's time for a re-branding.
Unless they subscribe to the any publicity is good publicity, which I doubt.


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RE: [VIDEO] FBI v Apple

RJS (undefined) posted this on Thursday, 24th March 2016, 08:55

Latest news, FBI have had the case postponed, and an Israeli firm is apparently unlocking it for them:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-cellebrite-idUSKCN0WP17J


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RE: [VIDEO] FBI v Apple

sj (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 29th March 2016, 05:58

And they're in....
It'll be intersting to see if the FBI tell Apple how it was done.
I was wondering if they could somehow make a block level copy of the storage and use it as a 'master'.  Then copy it and try to unlock that by trying unlock codes 'manually'.  Once it's 'locked', make another copy of the 'master' and carry on/repeat.??..

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RE: [VIDEO] FBI v Apple

RJS (undefined) posted this on Tuesday, 29th March 2016, 07:56

I doubt they'll tell Apple, otherwise Apple will just go and fix it. But any device is hackable eventually anyway, it's more a question if the manufacturer should be forced to hack it themselves or not.

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