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I don't understand — if the iPhone 5C is so simple to brute force, why aren't Apple simply doing this for the FBI in this particular case? Why request an entire iOS modification when Apple could do what it has done for previous court orders and just brute force the phone.
Wall street is indeed a very broad term and the biggest distinction is between banks and hedge funds. Below is a very rough outline and no doubt some people will debate it.

Banks are more standard jobs, where devs are usually siloed into doing very specific assignments in a pre-determined part of the business. If you want to build a long-term career in finance through banking, you should get in, climb the corporate ladder by doing your particular job well and hope your department’s business will be popular and sexy in 5 years. In 2003-2008 CDO and derivatives were the sexiest thing alive, after which it became less interesting. In terms of pay, you would get a higher base salary guaranteed, but any extra profit the bank makes will have to be split across all departments (sales, client, compliance …), so bonuses tend to be limited.

Hedge funds and prop trading are smaller institutions than banks, as such they are more tech-oriented (especially systematic trading places, where algorithmic platforms are built to place and execute trades). Hedge funds client their clients’ money and charge a commission on profits, while prop traders trade their own money and could potentially go down in one day. All this presents challenging problems to solve. Therefore, HFs and prop trading value good developers and they work closely with quant analysts and traders. While they usually look for strong backend developers, there is demand for good front-end engineers to refine the client facing applications too. Due to the nature of the job you would be working with traders and analysts, which is a good way to learn about finance proper. Smaller headcount in hedge funds generally encourages more collaboration and working in tighter teams, as it’s inefficient for the business to silo people away from each other as much. Another advantage is splitting the bonus across fewer people, leaves more money per person, which is where a dev with a lower base will beat your banker dev and can (not always) get > 250k.
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Other commentary suggests this capability is targeted at the iPhone 5C, and that at least some newer models do have protections against this technique.
Once the open source version of Tensorflow releases multi-node support, this would be one way to make it work. There are potential gains from using a GPU for RF training. As for distributing, in my experience for small models it doesn't make much difference and for larger models the cost of distributing the dataset dominates the benefit from having multiple nodes. But an implementation carefully designed for a given node topology could be made more performant.
Once the government grants a monopoly, no matter how limited or small, the foothold and motivation exist to expand it.

The system is: a small number of monopoly holders, each with strong incentives to expand it, versus the rest of the population, none of whom cares that much about a single case, and a court system that responds to the more motivated party.

The rest is a matter of time.
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But this request was made specifically for the phone in the San Bernardino case. In which the owner is dead and the phone is locked.

This implies it is possible for Apple themselves to apply an iOS update to a locked phone in order to disable the erase-on-repeated-failure feature.
dead people were once alive. go through their pockets or their apartment.
On iOS, I use Pythonista for running various python scripts. They also acts as an extension, on which you can run various python scripts. One of the examples provided is generating a QR code from an URL in Safari - but the sky is the limit. No idea how Apple ever allowed this on the AppStore, but it's there, and it's magnificent.
FBiOS :)
But how can the custom iOS build be installed on the device while it is locked?
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The San Bernardino Case

We were shocked and outraged by the deadly act of terrorism in San Bernardino last December. We mourn the loss of life and want justice for all those whose lives were affected. The FBI asked us for help in the days following the attack, and we have worked hard to support the government’s efforts to solve this horrible crime. We have no sympathy for terrorists.

When the FBI has requested data that’s in our possession, we have provided it. Apple complies with valid subpoenas and search warrants, as we have in the San Bernardino case. We have also made Apple engineers available to advise the FBI, and we’ve offered our best ideas on a number of investigative options at their disposal.

We have great respect for the professionals at the FBI, and we believe their intentions are good. Up to this point, we have done everything that is both within our power and within the law to help them. But now the U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone.

Specifically, the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation. In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession.

The FBI may use different words to describe this tool, but make no mistake: Building a version of iOS that bypasses security in this way would undeniably create a backdoor. And while the government may argue that its use would be limited to this case, there is no an way to guarantee such control

This is just pure awful they admit to helping the fbi. how can we trust them
Even if Apple created a backdoor, how are they going to install it on locked phone? Are locked mobile able to update without access to internet or user passcode?
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Tim Cook: a really nice guy with blue whale-sized cohones.

There can be no compromise because China, Syria and Turkey would also lean on Apple to break into phones of dissidents, and pretty soon, future whistleblowers here in US too in order to prevent leaks (iPhone 7 and iCar notwithstanding).

That's the tradeoff in not giving in to faint, vague "maybes" that there were "external coordination" when in all likihood it was the ultraconservative, Saudi half leading this duo into the kookooland of violent extremism.

The security services will just have to buy exploits, develop malware, cultivate human intelligence sources and monitor everything the old-fashioned way... It's not like that kid in a YouTube video finding a jailbreak exploit for an iPhone and not releasing a tool is going to sit on it, he's going to auction it off to the shop or country with the most $$$.
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There's some value over other laptops, notably that it's tested with Linux as the main target and uses recent hardware that is virtualization friendly (+15" which is a personal requirement for me). Configuring a laptop like that takes a nontrivial amount of time from my experience.
What interests me is that it will run Qubes OS before the 15" ships if that statement is to be trusted. It is one of the more interesting approaches out there and I'll gladly pay a premium for a Qubes laptop.

The BIOS is not free and the laptop won't be free anytime soon due to Intel ME [1]. Unfortunately the compromise for the foreseeable future seems to be freedom vs. more power or hoping for something awesome non-x86.

[1](PDF): http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf
Why should PM2 not be used?
Yes but like where would you nop? You can't statically analyse the code because the image is encrypted at rest (and potentially partially in ram also?)
Gotta give it to Apple, they sure know how to pull off a PR stunt.
I think it goes deeper ... there's another group called the Ebu Gogo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebu_gogo

> The Nage people believe that the Ebu Gogo were alive at the time of the arrival of Portuguese trading ships in the 17th century, and some hold that they survived as recently as the 20th century, but are now no longer seen. The Ebu Gogo are believed to have been hunted to extinction by the human inhabitants of Flores. They believe that the extermination, which culminated around seven generations ago, was undertaken because the Ebu Gogo stole food from human dwellings, and kidnapped children.

> An article in New Scientist (Vol. 186, No. 2504) gives the following account of folklore on Flores surrounding the Ebu Gogo: The Nage people of central Flores tell how, in the 18th century, villagers disposed of the Ebu Gogo by tricking them into accepting gifts of palm fiber to make clothes. When the Ebu Gogo took the fiber into their cave, the villagers threw in a firebrand to set it alight. The story goes that all the occupants were killed except perhaps for one pair, who fled into the deepest forest, and whose descendants may be living there still.

> There are also legends about the Ebu Gogo kidnapping human children, hoping to learn from them how to cook. The children always easily outwit the Ebu Gogo in the tales.

Not to "cook the children" but to learn how to prepare food ... that's quite different from an expected tale of terror. And in these, the children always got away fairly easily. It doesn't seem to be a traditional la llorona like story.

The more I've looked into them, the more I see they fall outside mythologies - no magic or witchcraft. The creatures don't put spells or curses. They don't do horrible things like disembowel people. In fact, they seem more like the stories of monkeys as a pest - ruining crops and making agrarian life difficult; not really the fodder of elaborate mythologies.
Panasonic makes such great laptops. Too bad it's hard to get them outside of Japan.
Link to the full order:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2714005/SB-Shoote...

It is a PDF.
"There are occasional "sneaker" waves that break on the beach and knock people down."

Lost light house keepers at Flannan Isles , 'Eilean Mor', 1900 ~ http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-E... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDqhQ9wlQxQ
It somehow reminds me of a letter written by Francis Galton, one of the founders of statistics and coiner of the word "eugenics", about the potential for the Chinese in Africa. http://galton.org/letters/africa-for-chinese/AfricaForTheChi... Note that by today's standards his views are pretty barbaric, so it's not easy reading.
Razer and built quality or reliability don't go well together.
Sounds like you already have a particular use case in mind.
It's been available for quite a while, long before iOS 7. It was at least available in iOS 5, probably available before that.
>And I'm not optimistic that the stockholders care about anything more than doing the opposite

AAPL is one of the most mainstream, widely-held stocks on the planet. Assumptions about the opinion of some homogeneous "stockholder" are useless.

I'm positive HN is filled to the brim with AAPL shareholders who care deeply about this issue.
This is a good overview https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
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Most previous jailbreaks required an unlocked device with passcode disabled and find my iphone turned off (because passcode encrypts things).

I'm still waiting for JB for 9.2.1 or 9.3 when released but there are already semijailbreaks (browser based installs a temporary app) and some unreleased PoCs, but Cydia MobileSubstrate and other tools need to be ported / verified too.

Perhaps if Apple allowed the devices to be officially customer hackable (like flux, springboard replacements, transmission, 3G unrestrictor and changing fonts), there would be less need to develop exploits... Unfortunately, there is great demand from governments to buy exploits and keep those secret (not a conspiracy but tools in a market)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8957680 for earlier discussion of that latter point.
> I don't think technology has gotten cheap enough in that span of time for even a $4 dumb phone now. This one is pretty close though

But it has a color display, bluetooth, is capable of playing mp3. What if they removed that?
I wish the author included something about the Intel Management Engine. It runs closed source software with privileged access to your entire machine including support for remote execution, has a history of critical vulnerabilities, and is present on every current Intel chip.
I like how you respond to concerns about not being able to modify the physical hardware with both "apple totally lets you do that!" and "some things in life you just can't do!"

The second comment is more amusing, given you then compare Apple's laptop with a battery case, instead of other vendors' laptops, whmo frequently provide free service manuals with exploded diagrams showing exactly how to open the thing and get inside.

The whole comment reads like apologia, but the funniest part was the assertion that Apple don't design for beauty, it just happens to be a by-product of designing for function. Apple. The company famous for intentionally designing beauty into their hardware products. The company that files design patent after design patent. Ah, well, I guess "you read that somewhere on the internet", but really, you should "think for yourself".
No money is spent on people to come up with an original design so you emulate what is already successful.
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Being a clear thinker (role of the CEO) and being a concise writer are two different things. The latter requires a lot of training. The CEO of the world's (second) most value company must be able to clearly articulate his goals and his vision, but he doesn't have to be a wordsmith to put his vision on paper.

Writing != thinking != talking

Writing might make you a better communicator in general, maybe a better thinker, too. But clear thinking and talking don't make you automatically a better writer.
After a few attempts the OS would rate-limit guesses to prevent exactly that. On some iOS versions it is possible to override this mechanism by cutting power at the right moment[1] but this exploit has been patched for a while and I doubt this device is vulnerable.

[1] http://observer.com/2015/03/watch-this-little-machine-brute-...
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I working on this library, a pull-to-action gesture. It works fine on desktop and on iOS, but it is really slow on android, especially when pulling up/down, chrome is repainting the elements quite a few times.
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Exactly how do you know that the case is now "closed"? It sounds like you're just making an assumption. The state is too, but the cost of their assumption --- that there is valuable data to gather from the phone --- is very low, and the cost of your assumption, if you're wrong, is immense.
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So I guess when you say that Israel occupies territories illegally according to UN while exercising extreme force prohibiting Palestians of their right to live, is considered an "anti-semitic" comment. No, you can't stand criticism while your being full of smugness and self-righteousness. Am I being antisemitic when I say that 25% of the Israel defence budget is paid by the Americans?. Do you follow Congress rulings that support that fact? Why should there be homeless americans when there is so much money used to support Israel?. Who decides that? You do? You and the other people flagging me because you do not want the truth to be told.
I don't quite understand - what is the actual purpose of being able to push a new version of iOS while locked? Apple don't seem to use this - people stick to whichever version they're comfortable with on old devices and accept whatever limitations.. so why does the functionality even exist?

Even with the restriction of being plugged in, outside of Apple who needs to push iOS versions at tethered devices and will be hindered too badly by having to unlock them first?
> by Jason Robert Carey Patterson

Is the author related to David Patterson?

(Known from [1])

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Fifth-Quantitati...
Chinese thug of a government needs to be put out of its misery.
It is probably a loss leader to create a splash. It does not seem to be supported by the Govt. Likely, only a few will be in stock at that price. Later the price will increase or the model will be discontinued.
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Fortunately for the future, this kind of attack can be thwarted through key stretching (making each attempt intrinsically long to perform, by making it computationally expensive).

I expect to see an optional, configurable key stretching setup in future phones, for those whose privacy is worth a couple of seconds' delay when unlocking their phones.
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Maybe by the US thug of a government?
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iTunes recovery mode? It allows to restore the OS, but also gives you other means to manipulate the device. Imagine if they simply hot-patch the lockscreen to allow any number of tries of password?
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As promised I wrote a post about your setup. Thanks a lot for bringing the technique to my attention: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-sto...
I am but one data point, but I recently had opportunity as a stockholder in a fund to cast a vote on a shareholder led proposition. Voting in favour of the proposition would have removed a set of investment choices that the fund managers could pursue on our behalf. The fund managers (I forget the exact terminology of what they were - maybe the word "board" was used) recommended that shareholders voted against.

I voted for, and to my surprise so did a majority of other stockholders, and that avenue of opportunities was removed.
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I trust it as much as commercial grade APCs I've used in DCs. It definitely cost more in my engineering time than buying an off-the-shelf component, since I spent a lot of time researching it. But I'm a hardware nerd at heart and rarely get to putz around with this kind of stuff, so it didn't really seem like labor to me.

The precautions I took were probably overkill but since it wasn't my lab I chose to go pretty overboard. In addition to conforming to the strict charge-discharge guidelines Panasonic thoroughly delineated in their sheets, were to use 1: use "protected 18650's" (actually designated as 19760) which have internal circuitry to keep, say, cheap chinese eBay charge-units from setting peoples house on fire, 2: sourced the batteries from a vendor I've trusted for ages (since the Panasonic 'greens' have such a popular reputation, and knock-offs make it into all sorts of markets including first-tier shops like Amazon and Digikey, I asked my vendor to source directly from Panasonic JP, which he did and provided me with a packing slip). Fear of Li-* is reasonable, and I figure risking permanent damage to ones body and/or life isn't worth the 7 bucks you save buying no-names - go with the 19760's and live life to the fullest! (Pro-tip, the form factor of the 760s are about a mm or 1.2 mm or something longer than unprotected 850s due to the added circuitry -- which I presume is just a PTC thermistor + kill switch, I haven't looked it up though. I'm sure there's a mass difference too if you have access to lab quality scales or are friendly with your local cannibus vendor.

Thrown in the case I have a live K-type thermocouple in all 8 of the 1u's (a pair in each rack) with conservative failure policies should temperatures exceed parameters I set. I put put some nice fusing (HRC.. why? because I was already going overkilling and since this wasn't an off-the-shelf component, and I'm not an EE with extensive PDU experience I decided to go safe. (I also consulted with a post-doc buddy of mine who's actively in lithium battery research and after a good chuckle told me the precautions I took were satisfactory.) It came in at around 5k USD for all 8 units with everything, including ~115 a piece for the Hammond 1u's. Each unit can sustain a little under 4.5 kVA which gives more than enough buffer time for a graceful shutdown
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It depends a lot on screen brightness and the power settings. The XPS13 has a bright screen....
Linux wifi can be a bit of a curious beast, but there is some element of the random number generator playing against people here. Last year I was working for a company in a startup colocation. My computer is a desktop and I run linux... and we moved into the colo only to find there was no wired network. Wifi was the only way. I tried a couple of USB wifi cards (yuck) and then just bought a cheap pci one. After that, it worked perfectly. Over the next few months, there were frequently times that all the macbook users in our company would be complaining and asking each other about the wifi being down, meanwhile my card was going rock solid and never missed a beat.

At a previous workplace, the folks on macbooks often complained of wifi dropouts and the folks on windows laptops never did.

But then there are stories like yours that are the other way around. Wifi is a difficult thing to pinpoint, because you can never be sure just what it is that's causing problems; there are so many factors, and it's difficult to really nail down without a lot of time and alternate parts to swap out.
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I'll check how you did it. I wrote my notes and a couple of scripts down in a post: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-sto...
My 2008 macbook's (removable) battery also puffed up.
There are probably Android devices which make use of ARM's TrustZone [1]. Apple's Secure Enclave is a bit more thorough, though, because it actually uses a physically separate co-processor running a custom L4-based microkernel with a secure boot process. It is hardware isolated from the rest of the system, and uses a secure mailbox and hardware interrupts to communicate. Whereas ARM TrustZone appears to be implementable entirely on a single CPU.

[1] http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzon...
When I'm at home and my 3G phone loads everything faster than expected I know that Wifi isn't enabled...
And while we're at it, why don't we have some VA or even OLED matte displays for laptops?
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This kind of security is used in SIM-cards, access-cards for pay-TV, TPMs. Kind of standard with various variations.

Some criss/cross metal mesh as the topmost layer you would have to penetrate, or photodiodes that sense the light if you put a device under a microscope, ...