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Their business model just happens to align well with what is best for their customers. It's interesting that it's almost an anomaly. The business models of Goole and Facebook in comparison does not really align with what is best for their customers.

Apple are a company so they'd be stupid to not take advantage of this and as a consumer I am happy that the premium I pay for Apple products is benefiting me.
Also China had a positive current account balance of 347 billion dollars in 2015, while the US ran on deficit each year since 1989 and had one of 460 billion dollars in 2015.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
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I don't share the same opinion from the NDK code.

Plain C with C++ compiler, with a pseudo Hungarian notation.
I agree. I was under the impression that Apple's security was such that even they didn't have the power to decrypt a device because the crypto made it impossible without the password/pin/key. I'm interested to understand the reasons that it was not done this way.
Question: is it possible to design a cryptographic system that, whenever it is accessed by a third party (government), this is made publically visible in a log? Can blockchain technology help here?
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Doesn't surprise me because only english are great :)
Some people already complain that the iPhone is too expensive, especially compared to non-equal Android phones. Not enough people complain about any company not fighting for their user's security.

Talk is all we need so far. Publicly saying no to the FBI is a step rarely taken.
Does Apple really have to create a "master" key though? Couldn't Apple write the backdoor that would only activates on the iPhone in question? Even if it was something as simple as "if (secure_id == terrorist_phone_id) [accept any pin]", it's not like the FBI could remove the condition without invalidating the signature. If they could, they wouldn't need Apple's help to begin with.
I am very interested, may I ask you to provide a reference to such a clause? Maybe when confronted with a real contract it would be better to ask a lawyer, but having seen an example would be useful nonetheless.
> mvn, npm, composer, gem, and pip all work just fine

...for you.
But if they beat the order, and that they've made a big deal about going against the order, why would they go ahead and compromise the device's security? What would be the point? Just to tell the government, "Hey, don't worry about all that stuff we said, we didn't mean it?"

If they do it once, they'll do it again.
None that are necessary to run it, still (not including drivers, but that's hardware dependent)
on page 11 of the security white paper, there is a diagram illustrating the key hierarchy.

i believe that 'Hardware Key' refers to the UID. if this is the case, then learning the UID + user passcode gives you the root keys, from which you can decrypt the remaining key hierarchy until you reach the decrypted files.
Why wouldn't they believe in protecting their customers privacy? In Apple's case there is no conflict of interest to make you doubt that statement. If it came from Google or Facebook I would be more skeptical.
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I bought the first Zenbook UX31 when it came out and last year bought a retina MBP.
The zenbook was at the time half the price for the comparable mac air and I enjoyed it very much the first year, but since then I had it repaired 3 times costing me more than the purchase price (HDD, ram, power plug) and the power plug still doesnt work well so I can't use it anymore. It served me well, but not sure I would recommend it again.
I'm very happy with the MPB so far, never thought I'd buy a mac but there was just no alternative for build quality, as the article suggested. Still haven't put Linux on it, which I thought I'd do immediately, so the OS is not that bad. If the MPB were a little lighter, it would be the perfect machine for me.
No: data held on Apple servers (iCloud) can be provided with a warrant, but this is about data held on an iPhone but not saved to Apple servers. As a result, neither Apple nor the NSA can immediately provide it, and some means of hacking the iPhone is needed.
No, because I put the device in a faraday cage, with whatever proxies I need, crack it, then put it in a woodchipper. No one ever finds out.
two dead attackers, stack confiscated. case closed.
I think they're being asked for a few things—private keys and the ability to automate and not limit passcode entry attempts.
Nim GC is optional; It can be disabled to write system libraries.
You can stack fields so you grow 20X the amount per square meter/foot/whatever than you would with sunlight. True there are vertical solutions that use mirrors but these become unwieldy to design and maintain (cleaning the dust off the mirrors etc) so it's simpler to just go with the led shelf solution.

Adding to that, this allows you to grow vast amounts of food in urban environments meaning that it is a cheaper/shorter journey from field to table. Logistics is a major expense in farming and a huge harm factor in relation to our environment.
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I've had good luck with the Thinkpad W530. A little large for some (15''), but for me it works. 16Gb of RAM, SSD and an extra battery (which attaches to the back and angles the keyboard just right) gives me approx 10 hrs of battery life (even when fitting models/compiling).
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I too was quite frustrated with the wifi card, apparently they've sourced different cards. The Broadcom (I think?) was pure crap in linux, fine in windows. I upgraded to the non bluetooth intel card, everything is fantastic now.
I think jailbreaking requires you to erase the phone first.
having made the request for both an erase password as well as an erase finger print I would not mind going one further, a setting which wipes the phone if neither are entered in a set amount of time. The would protect you when the phone is stolen or confiscated.
It's standard PC hardware so you can install Linux on it if you'd like. I guess you're paying the "Microsoft Tax" for the OS license that won't be used but you could say the same about installing Linux on a MacBook too.

Also I'm not sure why you're being downvoted - I'm a .NET developer and spend all day in Windows but even I appreciate that others' workflows are built around Linux or OS X. Horses for courses and all that.
No dedicated function keys are the worst decision lenovo made. Kind of a pain in the ass when one is trying to avoid using the mouse (which most developers working for long periods tend to do).
I really like the idea. But I wonder how did you curate the whole list? From on your own? or is there tool for this?
They never say they can create it. They say the FBI wants them to create it, which may or may not be possible and is not addressed in this letter.
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I'm also excited that we are reducing jobs. Jobs for jobs sake is a fools errand.
Apple does deserve the respect their getting for standing up to the government about this. They're absolutely right that this is an attempt to fatally undermine security for a whole host of devices, and sets a disturbing precedent.

What do find interesting, is that Apple isn't the first manufacturer that the government as ordered to crack a device. An "unnamed smartphone manufacturer" was ordered to crack the lock screen on October 31, 2014.[1] No one made a fuss then, so someone caved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Writs_Act
Of course, Darwin is a perfectly cromulent POSIX system.
This is not apparent from the article. Where could I find out about this ability?
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In the world of cryptography, it is always possible, because you can always be lucky and guess the right "unlock" code. In fact, social engineering is normally used to find the right "unlock" code[0].

The FBI can also unsolder the components in the phone, make a full image of the content, find the encrypted section and then brute-force. This is what is done for SSD. They do not power up the drive, unsolder, put the memory modules in a special reader and copy the data before the controller of the SSD automatically wipe out data because of automatic optimization after a delete/trim.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/538/
I believe it was sarcasm making fun of a commonly held view.
The encryption key is calculated from your passcode + the AES key etched into the chip inside the phone. There's no way to read that key directly, unless you do some crazy chip imaging where you read the actual electron state of the memory - could be done, but the chance of corrupting that memory is very high, and if they read even one bit wrong then the entire key is useless.

So there are two ways to go about this - they can either brute force AES, which, quite simply, can't be done(and I don't mean can't be done with current computers, the number of possible combinations is larger than the atoms in the universe or something stupid like that), unless NSA has a way to crack AES faster(but if they do, they won't make that knowledge public). Or try every passcode combination going through the Apple's full algorithm, which takes about ~5 seconds to generate a key. So it's doable, but it would take some time.
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No, what I am assuming is the company will be compelled to provide the data on the phone without the potential for lock=out or erasure during brute-force. Then, in all likelihood state-of-the-art methods in brute-forcing AES (with the best theoretical speed-up up to and including quadratic due to Grover's algorithm on a quantum computer, or some unknown state-of-the-art slower than that on a classical computer) will be employed until the data is ultimately decrypted.
If in pursuit of an active investigation (i.e. the devices are still in active use), a police agency could invoke the All Writs act of 1789, and have Apple be instructed to introduce security vulnerabilities, with the next regular upgrade of iOS, such that after the phone is upgraded, it can be captured by the FBI, or whatever police force is involved, and the data recovered.

A large percentage (and presumably the the target in question) will willingly (at least today) upgrade their iOS to whatever Apple pushes out - we don't (for the most part) even question whether the purpose of that security patch is to reduce security.

The only thing that secures an iPhone is the iOS following the rules of security such as the security enclave - it can just as easily (in a new release of iOS) be instructed to ignore it.

What Apple/Tim Cook are doing here, is standing up for the importance of not being required to hodge-podge be at the whims and mercies of police agencies that demand they do whatever is required of it.
As you say, 'Apple could create'. It doesn't exist, what could the hacker even target?
Completely agree. I use the ThinkPad external keyboard as my main keyboard at work, mostly for the TrackPoint but also because it's just a really nice keyboard.

What bothers me about it is that it's a 6-row layout. I liked the 7 rows on the old keyboards, with double-height escape and delete keys.
Looking at the wording, seems to suggest they never state whether or not it is possible. It says "the FBI wants us to make", not what we can or cannot make. "Potential" doesn't mean certainty.
Previous discussions of this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7174513 (743 days ago, 226 points, 37 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428403 (1774 days ago, 283 points, 30 comments)
I guess in a few decades Smartphones with only one or two Petabytes of storage space will feel horribly cramped ;-)
Oooh, yes. It couldn't get any better, right? The amount of control you have here is just perfect.

If you don't like that, just wait a few days. I'm sure there will be tons of libraries that let you do that with a few lines of code.
Freedom from forced update is one of Stallman's motivations for free software.

Just one terrorist attack + PR letter to customer + forced update away from loosing encryption on your phone.
They didn't make any mention of how feasible it would be, just that they wouldn't even try because it would threaten the security of their users.
Wow the word bullshit get thrown very easily by people who use OSX and dont want other people to disagree.
Have you considered contributing to android-rooting-tools?

https://github.com/android-rooting-tools
As I've understood from other posts in the thread, you can't reproduce the hardware security module on the chip. It has a unique per-device key that cannot be read out (except perhaps with an electron microscope).
Personally I interpret the word PC as something like this:

http://bi9he1w7hz8qbnm2zl0hd171.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...

so it's funny that it's about laptops :)
This isn't the case with the newer devices though, where the delays and key destruction are enforced in hardware, and tampering would destroy the key.
Sorry, should have been more clear.

Yes, it does send the emails.
wow, I've not read a Matt Asay piece in years. And strangely, he seems to be saying the exact same thing he said then.
You have way too much faith into the the idea, that open source projects are free of backdoors / exploits and that the community can prevent creation of those. Aside from that, there is currently no platform, where 100% code is open source.
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>if one of the other manufacturers (say ASUS) makes their Android modifications open-source, they will see a drastic increase in Sales

Can you expand on this? I don't think enough people care about source access. RMS's exact hardware choices don't go on to sell millions.

edit: I didn't see your username before now.
I agree with you that Apple hardware is generally much better than the competition. However, there is one thing that really bugs me about Apple laptops - they don't open 180 degrees, which make them somewhat impractical to use with a stand. And simply using a laptop as-is is not very ergonomic.
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Same thing here, I just got one off ebay that we'll see if it kills my laptop. My complains about the laptop compared to macbook air:

- Battery life: with Ubuntu I'm getting ~2.5h, which really sucks. I'm still in Ivy Bridge though, I've read that newer ones double the life. Still ridiculously small

- The SSD is also proprietary (but I've read the ones from 2 years to now are standard). Same as Macbook

However, it also has some good advantages:

- Normal keyboard

- 1080p screen

- $900, which was around 700€ at the time I bought it
Inflation doesn't happen here. Bad debts actually take money out of the system. Recapitalizing the banks just add back the destroyed money.

Modern monetary policies don't "print" money anymore. Debt creation and destruction are used as the primary mean to create and destroy money. Below is a very simplified version of money creation, skipping many other aspects.

The banks lend their deposit out to the public and money is created out of the thin air and starts to circulate in the system. The banks are regulated by the central bank to maintain a certain reserve ratio on the deposit so there is a maximum level that can be lent out and that becomes the limit on the money supply. When loans are paid back, the money is destroyed but the returned money can be lent out again thus the money supply is not changed.

Central banks can influence the money supply by setting the interest rate. Lowering rate causes more loans to be made thus expanding the money supply, conversely for raising rate.

Now when a loan has gone bad, there is no money paid back to the bank. The bank is short of that amount of money. It still has to maintain the reserve ratio and can't lend that much out again. The money is gone; essentially it has been destroyed from the system.

So a bad loan actually shrinks the money in circulation, lowering the money supply. Too many bad loans would cause a credit crunch - the banks simply can't get the loan money back to re-lend them out and thus there's not enough money to go around.

Here's where the central banks step in. They recapitalize the banks (fancy word to create money out of the thin air), by either giving created money to the banks to write off the bad loans, or in the U.S. case in 2008 the Fed buying the bad debts from the banks with new money it created out of the thin air. In either case the banks get money for getting rid off the bad debts and can lend again, re-balancing the money taken out of the system due to bad debts. Thus the money supply is back to normal and life goes on.

The bad debts held by the central banks are simply some numbers on some papers, whose value are questionable. Someday it might be decided that they are worthless and, puff, they are gone.

The Chinese central bank is basically using the same mechanisms to deal with bad debts.
How did you fix it? I just mapped caps-lock as left mouse button :| I hate clickpads.
They could charge a million for this one time, but after that it's just the edit of that if statement. It's not justified to charge a million each time.
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Existence of such system wouldn't make much difference, because no authority would wan't to use it to access the data. They would claim that the target's inability to detect a wire is crucial to the ongoing investigation.
Honestly not that much : to feel comfortable at home I would need 20 TB of storage (of course it's only Linux ISO ;-). A bit more than 10 thousand people like me and they would have to reorder more drives.
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Thanks for answering. And original question was great too. Are you a lawyer, not trying to dismiss your answer because it seems logical, but asking so that I can ask something else
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I don't see how this message is reassuring. Are they expecting the customers to just take their word? Without Apple showing the world, every bit of software that they run on their phones, these statements are at best, meant to mislead the users that Apple is doing something on the user's behalf.
The core business of a bank is taking a global view on risk. The very idea of maturity transformation (at the heart of what a bank does) relies fundamentally on being big enough that the laws of large numbers come into play.

If we're saying we don't want big banks then we're saying we don't want banks. Maybe you want that - maybe mortgages should be sold directly to investors on the same maturity terms - but it would be a radical change to the way finance works for everyone.
Sure, that's fine with me, you can choose to spend your time however you want.

Someone said proper HiDPI support is not available on Linux. So I replied that I have used HiDPI on Linux for a long time without major issues.

That's not an advocacy argument for anyone to choose Linux. So I might ask you to re-read my paragraph—unless you're so allergic to Linux "bullshit" that mere anecdotes cause you pain, in which case I'm sorry. (That's meant to be just slightly condescending...)
As an owner of an SP2 for >2yrs, I strongly agree with your idea. However as things are now, it's very difficult to install Linux, FreeBSD or other OS on the SP[2-4], I know because I've tried to do it, not a pleasant experience at all.

OTOH it is pretty easy to run just about any OS in a Hyper-V VM. My SP2 has FBSD running most of the time. One use is letting the VM act like a remote node that clients on the host OS can access. Makes a convenient arrangement for server development and testing in a way that dual booting would not accomplish.

On the downside MS hardware means running Windows 10 on new machines, which I'm not happy about. I won't go into details re: Win10, it's been discussed plenty. When it works the hardware's great, though MS firmware skills are marginal at best, it's bitten me a few times, but there's another bunch of long stories that ATM I'll refrain from telling.
• Can Apple upgrade iOS on a single device that is locked, from a new untrusted laptop without wiping it?

• Can Apple OTA upgrade iOS when the device is locked?
Google's study some time ago found that temperature either didn't correlate with failures or, in the ranges they ran their machines, had an inverse correlation with failure. It would appear to be one problem disk manufacturers have largely surmounted.
A company with courage. Hard to believe when virtually no institution, government or corporate has it.
Only a reasonable amount though. They could charge $100k or even $1m the first time, but they'd have a hard time justifying similar fees if only an if condition needs to be changed. Worse, they would lose the moral high ground if they even tried it. They'd go from being a good corporation standing up for the Constitutional rights of its users to a scumbag organisation trying to bleed taxpayer money for helping criminal investigations.
I interpret as the OP does. The court document asks Apple to lock the particular image to a particular serial number, so if all goes according to plan, the same image could not unlock other iPhones. Obviously, writing security code on a short deadline does not make for the best security, so that's one worry.

But Apple's letter uses the expression "technique", which I think means they're worried the government will get another court to make them change the serial number and sign a new image "next time". Before you know it, Apple will have to have an entire department to make these one-off images. Someone will say, "you know, you could save yourself a lot of time if you just made it work on any phone." Then that image will be leaked, and their security guarantees will be dead. (One might also worry about the DRM implications.)
YMMV; my Thinkpad and my HP DV2 before that both had side vents.
It could be, but why would the FBI want that?
I think it's not only about build quality. If you use Linux, sadly it's also about compatibility.

I bought a MBA 11' (2012) because it's an all-Intel machine, which was used by Linus for some time and hardware support is almost perfect. It's only lacking ACPI events for battery discharge, something very few machines have.

While Macs are good, I think they are optimised for the looks and not for robustness. Glossy screens are a bit uncomfortable, and aluminium tends to be too rigid, transmitting shocks to the screen as a consequence.
I'd also like to point out that Apple has a record of not practicing cautiously to security exposure, like _the inclusion of CNNIC root certificate despite the public exposure of security breach_.

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/15/04/09/1531237/apple-leave...