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Because it sets an awful future legal precedent. If Apple did it once and didn't challenge it, you can be sure that all future government cases involving decryption will cite this case as the new standard of law.
Do we need more competition in banks? We have way more viable banks than say viable mobile operating system makers, or viable desktop operating system makers, or viable search engines, etc. Do those markets lack adequate competition?
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So the FBI is asking Apple to build a tool that will unlock security measures of an existing iPhone, like the one in the San Bernadino shooting, and allow it to be read.

The problem with this is that no such tool should be possible to build. It should not be a matter of yes or no; it should be simply impossible for Apple to build such a tool without the private key of the user, which Apple does not have.

If it is possible to write a piece of software which can circumvent the protections of the iPhone without the user's private key, then Apple wrote its security software incorrectly. Either they wrote it with an appalling lack of security understanding; or they left in important backdoors, either knowingly or through ignorance. But if they wrote the software correctly and did not create backdoors of which they're aware, then the government's request is actually impossible -- cannot be done.

So which is it, Apple? Is the point moot because you did this right? Or have you already placed backdoors in the product which the FBI is now asking you to exploit for their benefit?
I'm always very careful when placing code supporting the test outside of the test itself. Setup and teardown functions are fine, but I prefer to be safe because, well, you can't test the test.

-- I'm not saying this is the case in the blog post. Just some thoughts.
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I'm not sure why that is your main take away from that article. The point is that relatively slow disk controllers designed for rotating magnetic storage are a bottleneck when you connect fast enough Flash storage. Connecting the storage via PCIe alleviates this bottleneck, to the point that you are no longer bound by the traditional constraints of small caches and large, slow permanent storage.
It's not complete nonsense. While growing up, I read about her in numerous U.S. textbooks that failed to point out the Polish connection.
>I haven't seen evidence that these ghost cities are the result of central planners building slack for expected growth.

I think this reveals some bias. The evidence is the cities themselves. Or do you think that it's central planners merely trying to improve GDP numbers, but completely oblivious to the fact that Chinese citizens are urbanizing at a scale not seen before in human history?
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>Or you know... sitting outside in 30C summer in shorts.

Well, anyone that wears shorts and sandals and is over 20, deserves it.

>Current rMBP is unusable outside in summer due to hot chasis...

Maybe sit on a table? I use mine in a country that frequently gets 38-40 oC, and in a country that is constantly Lousiana-summer level heat and humidity (Singapore) and never had much of a problem.

Or one could use any kind of towel or pad below their laptop.

Kind of reminds me of the Louis CK routine about people complaining about trivial things (e.g. the food) while flying, sitting on a chair in the sky, across thousands of miles, in a few hours (something that just 3-4 generations ago took days or even months, discomfort and a few deaths along the way).

We now have undreamt-of power in our PCs or even mobile phones (power which used to take a device as big as a house and with its own cooling infrastructure), and we complain for them being uncomfortamble to have on our bare laps...
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You're both accurate here:

> The implications of the government’s demands are chilling. If the government can use the All Writs Act to make it easier to unlock your iPhone, it would have the power to reach into anyone’s device to capture their data. The government could extend this breach of privacy and demand that Apple build surveillance software to intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone’s microphone or camera without your knowledge.

Once there's a backdoor, the legal precedence and technical capability will exist to use it on any device. The precedence would also exist to request support in backdooring other parts of the OS.

It's FBI Director Comey's explicit goal[0] to destroy the notion of strongly secured encryption for civilians. From an an address to Congress July 2015:

> Thank you for the opportunity to testify today about the growing challenges to public safety and national security that have eroded our ability to obtain electronic information and evidence pursuant to a court order or warrant. We in law enforcement often refer to this problem as “Going Dark.”

[...]

> We would like to emphasize that the Going Dark problem is, at base, one of technological choices and capability. We are not asking to expand the government’s surveillance authority, but rather we are asking to ensure that we can continue to obtain electronic information and evidence pursuant to the legal authority that Congress has provided to us to keep America safe.

In other words, encryption makes it harder for the FBI to collect people's information. They therefore want to make sure encryption as implemented can't block the FBI.

Further on:

> The debate so far has been a challenging and highly charged discussion, but one that we believe is essential to have. This includes a productive and meaningful dialogue on how encryption as currently implemented poses real barriers to law enforcement’s ability to seek information in specific cases of possible national security threat.

[...]

> We should also continue to invest in developing tools, techniques, and capabilities designed to mitigate the increasing technical challenges associated with the Going Dark problem. In limited circumstances, this investment may help mitigate the risks posed in high priority national security or criminal cases, although it will most likely be unable to provide a timely or scalable solution in terms of addressing the full spectrum of public safety needs.

Encryption, when implemented in a way that legitimately secures a person's data from unauthorized access, the FBI can't just get in and take the data. Comey would like Congress to support policy and tools that can get around that, because terrorism.

The Apple situation feels very foot-in-door to me.

0: https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/going-dark-encryption-tec...
Doesn't the phone belong to San Bernardino County?
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Annoyingly, neither the price nor the spec have been updated recently. The non-developer XPSes are already on Skylake and come with more RAM and storage: http://www.dell.com/uk/p/xps-13-9350-laptop/pd
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I actually have a Lenovo x220 as one of my machines, and with 70-80% brightness I get about 4 hours of battery life (wifi included) on a 9 cells battery. Does it sound reasonable or am I not getting what I should?
I'm actually more influenced by Swedish spelling, where I saw how nice things could be. Separating ij and ei (which were long i and ai in protogermanic) seems pretty cool to me as it makes it more obvious for other germanic languages what the corresponding word is (drijven seems more similar to drive than to treiben), however I guess it's really hard for people to remember which of the two is the correct one for each word when they're pronounced the same.
According to the wikipedia article[1], the Polish lacked resources to automate decryption once the Germans upgraded Enigma.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Po...
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The real security risk is the ability to update the phone's OS without authorized user consent at least as strong as the original protection the FBI are trying to break.

Right now it all hinges on Apple's private key and that's a very thin wire to hang all this privacy off.
I know lots of successful people.

IMHO You should not trust successful people advice more than unsuccessful people in general, but TRUST WHAT THEY DO.

I remember when I was young(16 or so) and wanted to learn from the best men with the girls. There were men that were really great at dating the most gorgeous women.

I approached them and asked. What they told me was generic and non sense. But I started going out with them and doing what they did and man, what a change!. I got to be as good as them or better(I am naturally athletic and tall but before I met them I was average with women, I discovered for example that being smart and intelligent(geek) could be the most attractive thing ever for a women, but the smartest people use to be unattractive to women because they don't know how ).

I discovered that most people good with women were "naturals", they did not learn it, but for some other reasons they had acquired the abilities that made them great.

They can't teach anything because they are not really conscious of what makes them different. For them, it is completely natural, the way it should be.

The same happens in business. These people has a completely different mindset from the rest of the world but for them the world is that way. They are not conscious and can't teach you.

The way to learn is to live with them, not to do what they say, but do what they do.
"In particular, they are nowadays not any more efficient than using character"

How could a comparison of two strings of unknown size be as efficient as comparing two integers? I'm curious to learn something new.
Unlikely, after all the mistake would have been discovered by now and an updated firmware would be shipped. After all, that email address is still active and is still receiving those images.
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The way I read this, is that Tim Cook has and said it can't be done, only that it shouldn't be done. This leads me to suspect that Apple can decrypt your phone, and they know precisely how to do it, but in doing so would disrupt their entire marketing campaign around safe and secure encryption.

I'm just a government relations guy, not a security person, so please forgive me, but I'm not sure where I fall on this. I want the FBI to be able to decrypt the San Bernardino attackers phone. The same time, I don't want the government to be able to decrypt my phone. This is one hell of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation, and I'm really stuck.
Hence this part of the order

(3) it will ensure that when the FBI submits passcodes to the SUBJECT DEVICE, software running on the device will not purposefully introduce any additional delay between passcode attempts beyond what is incurred by Apple hardware.
I've never been an Apple fan but this was a fantastic and bold move by them. Software security and hacking is already an enormous problem that every single person has to deal with. Even major companies like the NYTimes have been hacked by malicious users in the recent past. We need to take every reasonable action to combat this threat. Building deliberate vulnerabilities (yes, every backdoor is a vulnerability) into our software and devices is going to make all of us less safe, and all of us more vulnerable to unforeseeable attacks in the future.
Stealing crypto keys from an offline laptop in another room
I'd love to know the names of the people within the FBI who are pushing this agenda. The only way this foolishness is going to stop is if those people are out of a job.
non-elected dictatorship.
The point is there currently is no backdoor. FBI wants Apple to create (and sign) an OS update with a backdoor and install it onto the suspect's phone. Specifically the backdoor is to remove the rate limiting and 10 attempts limitation on trying the passcode.

If you have a very strong passphrase (not a 6-digit code) then even that should be unbreakable even with brute force. Of course, most users have the 6 digit code.

If you read the actual court order a lot of your questions are answered. Here: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160216/17393733617/no-ju...

Also, the phone is an iPhone 5c. This doesn't have Touch ID and doesn't have the secure enclave. The same approach would not even be possible wouldn't even work on a 6 or 6s.
http://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/02/17/apple-can-comply-with...
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Yep, just picked up an e6220 for €200 (with a new 6 cell battery) - runs for ~7.5 hours with MX-15 (Debian without systemd) and TLP installed. Military-grade ruggedness and a nice keyboard, too.
Why am I not starting with a greenfield? In my example I did mention a niche start up.
I am not american either.
I was just about to say, your OP was a great quick summary, but glossed over the loss of risk/punishment inherent in the system. Consider the loophole closed.
>Apple has allegedly cooperated with law enforcement in the past by using a custom firmware image that bypassed the passcode lock screen.

If true, precedent has already been set.
I don't understand your comment.

The iPhone in question is protected with an unknown passcode. Auto erase is enabled, so brute-forcing the passcode will erase the data.

However, a new OS version without auto erase and that accepts passcode input from USB would allow the FBI to try all combinations.

How is Apple at fault because most any passcode scheme can be cracked via brute-forcing all comginations?
Your musl libc list is too short. GNU libc puts much of getaddrinfo() into one source file. musl libc splits it across several, including:

* http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/network/getaddri...

* http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/network/lookup_s...

* http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/network/lookup_n...

* http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/network/lookup_i...

* http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/network/resolvco...

See also the BSD libc implementation of getaddrinfo():

* https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/10/lib/libc/net/getad...

* http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/net/getaddr...
For convenience, the links in the OP:

Digwebinterface screenshot (1002x2394, 291KB): http://i.imgur.com/iqaGKt8.png

IP OpenDNS responds with: https://131.252.210.176/

That IP sends me to: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/

Digwebinterface settings: http://www.digwebinterface.com/?hostnames=x.org&type=&showco...

pir.org screenshot (754x882, 108KB): http://i.imgur.com/hsPqvaS.png

PIR domain lookup form: https://pir.org/products/org-domain/#domain_form

URLs: http://x.org, https://x.org, http://www.x.org and https://www.x.org don't seem to work.

Handover issue Phoronix article: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Do...

Handover issue HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10867202

/r/linux crosspost: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/468c78/xorg_suddenly...
sounds like the backdoor already exists, but only Apple knows how to use it. same as if Apple knew a master password for this phone but refused to give it. they are saying they don't want to give it because once the FBI has it, then they are free to use it anywhere. pretty strange post from Apple.

probably they try to fight this request by arguing that the government is actually asking them to effectively remove security from all the phones (of this model at least). they would be happy to help break this one phone as long as it doesn't affect any other phone.

in that case, then Apple should just break the phone and give it back to the FBI after removing the backdoor.
What you linked is about the federal budget not the current account, which is something totally different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_account
"Apple's reasonable technical assistance may include, but is not limited to: providing the FBI with a signed iPhone Software file, recovery bundle, or other Software Image File ("SIF") that can be loaded onto the SUBJECT DEVICE. The SIF will load and run from Random Access Memory and will not modify the iOS on the actual phone, the user data partition or system partition on the device's flash memory. The SIF will be coded by Apple with a unique identifier of the phone so that the SIF would only load and execute on the SUBJECT DEVICE."

People hyperventilating that the tool could be used to crack other phones can relax, given the last clause in the quoted text (from the actual order).
@antirez: should the linked "linenoise NG" be considered a replacement for your linenoise?

I did diff on linenoise.c and linenoise.cpp (from NG) and very few lines are identical.
My MBP is the hottest machine I've ever owned. Run any game on it and not only is it too hot to put on my lap it's too hot to touch the keyboard. It actually stings my fingers
The problem with the X.org domain is that it was set to expire some time ago and the current X.org owners, X.Org Foundation, are not technically the same as X.Org Foundation LLC (now defunct) whom the domain is currently registered to.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Do...
If you are talking about Ordos New Town, it is local governments and tycoons trying to do something with their coal money. This isn't really central planning, more like investment options suck, and we can't just park our money in the bank, so let's build a city in the middle of nowhere! Ordos is filling up slowly, but it's clear at this point that many of the buildings will be torn down before they are ever occupied (Chinese constructed buildings only last around 20-30 year before they are completely derelict).

China is urbanizing, but it is not clear those poor farmers can afford the $200k+ apartments being built...even if they come down by half or more. Not only that, but these farmers can't even get hukou, making them second class citizens in the cities they might move to, ineligible for schooling for their kids or even subsidized healthcare. China needs to do a lot of reforming before this massive urbanization can happen, and they haven't really prepared for it (e.g. By focusing on luxury apartments vs. mass social housing with schools and hospitals enough to give those farmers proper urban hukou).

Finally, farmers can't even sell their land to buy an urban apartment. Instead, they have to wait for it to be appropriated by the local government (if near a growing urban area) or otherwise, they are just SOL. It really is quite a mess.
Australian here, who did do the science electives in high school... I'm sure I must have read that she was Polish at various points, but I sure as heck didn't remember it until seeing the above comment...
That doesn't explain how they would get the update on to a locked and encrypted device, even if it existed.
The title is misleading: China Deploys Missiles on US-Considered Disputed Island in South China Sea.
Better stories should not trump accuracy. After all future generations are likely to see this 'better story' as the real one, such accuracy should be preserved where possible.
> However, a new OS version without auto erase and that accepts passcode input from USB would allow the FBI to try all combinations.

It shouldn't be possible to just add a new OS onto the phone without the restrictions in place, without knowing the passcode first.
Can someone explain this to me? The FBI requests a new version of iOS to be installed on a single phone that was involved in the attack. What, exactly, does this mean? If the phone is locked, how will they install new software on it without unlocking? People are suggesting an update to iOS that will get pushed-out to all users, but contain a backdoor that is specific to that one particular device -- but how will the new iOS version be installed without unlocking first?
Sorry in advance for taking the headline and talking about something else.

What I want is a real personal computer that can fit in my pocket. A mobile device that is extremely open and very easy to hack on. I would like it to expose sensory readings in a UI and then provide a simple if-this-then-that UI that would allow me to teach daemons to respond to events that occur during the day and additionally support scripting for more complex automations. And once this device exists I'd like open protocols to exist to help other I/O devices to expose themselves to it.

Simply put I'd like devices to start offering extra senses to us beyond the five we were born with, and for these to be unencumbered from walled gardens.

Does such a thing exist?
>Printing money on this scale doesn't add wealth to the economy

Ceteris Peribus...

But when vast amounts of wealth vanish in a broad deleveraging you are merely replacing money. Case-in-point, the US pumped over $1TT into the economy since 2008, and yet the value of the dollar has gone through the roof, despite the cries that hyperinflation was around the corner.
I think the missing information here is how the phone is encrypted. If it's done with the 4-digit numeric PIN, then the software could be built; it would take 10000 tries, but at less than .1 seconds per try, it would be able to crack the code in about 15 minutes. The current iPhone has a protection for this; after some number of tries, it will lock you out for increasing time intervals.

This is the only way that their claims might possibly be valid.

And a reminder, then: change your iPhone's password to a more complex one. If apple doesn't make this fake OS, someone will.

Edit: to expand on this, Apple's PR goal was to take advantage of the NSA mass surveillance scare. On-device encryption is not very relevant to that. iCloud security is much more important, and they've been quietly granting data from it to the Feds. Including iPhone backups which contain most of the data they're looking for.
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I just ninja-edited in some info I forgot to originally include (out of freaked-out-ness): PIR (who appear to be the canonical .org registry (?)) show the domain expires in 2025.

You have to go through a captcha to run a lookup, so I included a screenshot in the OP: http://i.imgur.com/hsPqvaS.png
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I don't have a specific recommendation, but Lansky sounds a lot like the Tape Musician's of the 50's. Said musicians would slice and glue together countless snippets of sound recordings of real objects or spoken voice to create their compositions.
Today, the same can be accomplished digitally. Here is a recent example (though a little pop-music like):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwR6w2TgxY
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11112923 on this page.
You can go through each and every physical object I own or even was in contact with, but you won't find any of my passwords
I think the question is less about whether or not a "correct / valid use" of this new technology is acceptable. The problem is that it's impossible (once it exists) to guarantee it won't be used in malicious ways.
Extrapolate; in what way?

10.4 took until 10.4.11 to be stable. Snow Leopards wasn't great out of the box either. Marco's original post was nerd rage and the new mDNS solution. Was it annoying? Yes. Is it symptomatic of a larger issue? Hardly. I think, like may others, you are looking at this with extremely rosey glasses, especially given the comparison to Linux desktops, which in my experience (around 15 years) is still not as reliable as OS X out of the box or intuitive; too many desktops trying to do too many things too differently. Of course YMMV, but I'd argue it was likely due to confirmation bias.

I stand by the fact that this is nothing more than a meme.
It's not possible now. The FBI is asking Apple to change iOS so it will be possible in the future.