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From a sociology point of view, yes you should distrust any signs of p-hacking or selective reporting, especially when there is a low effect size.

From a technology point of view, I think we are already well past "no one.. really knowing what is going on." Take the current study. Past researchers had identified the CD19 antigen found (often exclusively) on B cells, and others had found that autologous T-cells could persist in a patient for many years, potentially providing a durable response. The current researchers built on this knowledge to design and engineer T-cells that could wipe out a patient's B cells.

So it's a very planned, targeted approach, more akin to engineering than the old approach of testing thousands of random molecules as potential treatments. When the targeted approach works, and especially when it has a large and consistent effect on patients as in this case, then you can be very confident at an early stage.

This needs to be recognized and medical practice needs to change as a result. We're entering an era of incredibly detailed knowledge and precision tools for research and development. The pace of development will continue to increase and treatments will become more patient-specific as individual targets are identified.

You could consider the large, slow, blunt clinical trials as being like optimization for a particular treatment. When new drugs are rare or not well understood it makes sense to spend time to optimize their use. But when new drugs come frequently and are well targeted this premature optimization costs lives.
Seems there must be. I'm assuming this is with some kind of plan or contract. The price is below the cost of the components it seems to me. The quad core 1.3GHz ARM processor alone is probably worth more than $4. The display panel and flash probably are also each worth $4 or more.

If these cellphones can really be bought for $4, then I want to buy 100 and network them into a cluster.
Technically you're right, legally think of the huge precedent. FBI is using the San Bernardino case as a legal crowbar, and it's awful.
Thanks. This explains it. I was just thinking about my old Thinkpad X41. That had TPM module and hardware encryption. There's nothing that IBM or the TPM manufacturer could've done to decrypt it (unless the TPM module already had backdoors, haha). Latest iPhones are basically the same?
Actually, the Wikipedia article[1] says it ("Noor 1") costs $3.9 billion, and produce 125 to 160 MW.

That is $24/W to $31/W. That is horrible. For cleaning the reflectors, it apparently uses 23 times as much water as a dry cooled coal power station.

It makes me sad to think that money and resources are being spent so inefficiently, in a country where the GDP per capita is $3k/year.

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$4 should be much less than the cost of the components. How do they stay in business?
The specs are great but, what actually 4inch qHD means? Quad HD or is it some sort of marketing slang?
"we believe the contents of your iPhone are none of our business."
You can have professionally applied an anti-glare film on the screen.

The application is perfect and resilient, and although it's "not the same", I will never ever go back to a glossy screen.
Also, patent licensing and taxes. I think they aren't earning anything at this cost.
Nobody builds their Android from source. Nobody uses Cyanogenmod. And nobody runs Android on a phone where the entire stack is open source and blob free.

Anyone who does is a rounding error.
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Not necessarily.

Despite the openness of Android/AOSP, there are still, unfortunately, things like binary blobs for certain graphics chips and closed-source firmware for things like Wi-Fi chipsets. Given what we've seen agencies like NSA are capable of (intercepting hardware in transit to apply backdoors, paying off RSA to make Dual EC the default pRNG in their crypto libraries, etc.), them compelling a manufacturer of a component to include a backdoor in their closed-source blobs is no stretch of the imagination.

Apple even has this problem: basebands in cellular modems are notorious for being the source of exploits in otherwise-secure phones.
I'm surprised that nobody on this thread has commented on the real substance of this response. It has nothing to do with Apple brute forcing iPhones for the police (which it has done for years, with a simple court order) - but instead, is Apple making it abundantly clear, that if they comply (or are forced to comply) with the All Writs Act of 1789 to create this particular back door, then that opens the floodgate moving forward for all sorts of requests to add backdoors/decrease security.

It's entirely possible, that the FBI can then use this precedent to simply have Apple remove all security from an iPhone in pursuit of an active investigation, which can be done with a straightforward firmware update - which IOS users tend to do without much thought.
Where is the reply button under your comment chillaxtian? Edit: hmm, now it suddenly appeared...

How about disabling the wipe signal by cutting some interconnects in the silicon?

Is the function by which the AES keys are calculated from the password really completely inaccessible?
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If government agencies has unfettered access to data, it undermines the reputation of these companies. For instance, in Europe, many companies and organisations are likely even more hesitant to use Google's services since the Snowden leaks. This is a large loss of potential revenue.

Google has been (even more) proactive about security and encryption since then, since part of their business model relies on trust.
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To all in-love-with-Apple downvoters, please read this Schneier sound analysis of the same type of situation that RIM(Blackberry) has been met with: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/08/uae_to_ban_bl...

/quote:
"RIM's carefully worded statements about BlackBerry security are designed to make their customers feel better, while giving the company ample room to screw them." /endquote

I have lost enough points on this thread to simply double down on this issue.

This is not a good sign at all. While Google can't compete with Apple on the principle of "not spying on their users". All Apple has to to is to publicize it and then ask for forgiveness from it's users later.
In europe you would just normally talk to each other during group-activities: on a party, maybe during work, wherever.

If you like someone, you would make sure that you meet him or her more often until, at some point, you will start doing things together without any others.

There are no clear rules for this. There are typical dates, like over Tinder, here as well. I guess one of the differences is that we don't define it.
THe problem is that Apple is being asked to build a modified iOS to extract that information from that phone. Should that software get into the wrong hands or if the FBI decides to keep that software for future use, then Apple's credibility about security will be at stake.
I was about to mention the Chinese case, the Chinese government asking foreign companies to install means of control and access in their products.

Does that mean that apple will not provide such means or disable security for phones sold on the Chinese market? That would be surprising given the potential size of this market.
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The nvidia driver is 303MB. I thought that Vulkan allowed for slim drivers. Something like ~1MB.

Someone has failed big time here.
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way more fun.
IIRC there is something similar in python
changing == to random yes/no. that's pure evil
Why do you assume that a "due legal process" will be followed every time, in every country?

Or maybe you think it's OK to do it just this once?

Sort of the "just the tip" mentality here?

The problem is that once such a capability is added to the OS, there is no going back. And it can then be used with or without your wonderful US due legal process, potentially by criminals and definitely by governments in countries where human and civil rights are a joke.
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Well it's very connected with Intel: 8086 -> 80186 + 80286 -> 80386 -> 80486 you know. USB 3.0 problems could also be mechanical problems with the connector. It's a very high bandwidth signal, about the frequency of standard wifi.
Do you want a phone always secure or never?

Should Apple have to re-engineer a special IOS to avoid the normal protections so governments can trivially brute force any phone?
if they can create it, they have the capability.
Not all of CyanogenMod is free software (you still have a bunch of binary blobs, and everyone has to use Google Play Services anyway because every app seems to implicitly require it). Replicant would be a much better alternative if it actually supported anything newer than 2G.
Good find.

And according to that source, you can change that target email address via a request parameter.
This is the only acceptable response.
I don't really buy this, simply because actual investors do not think this way. On public markets at least, there is some expectation that a stock price will have some relationship to expected future earnings. When the price is out of whack with those future earnings, the stock is under- or over-valued - and I would say that this is objectively true even when there is no way of knowing. Of course, there very often is a way of at least taking an intelligent guess, which is why Warren Buffett is so goddamn rich, for one.

Otherwise, we are left believing obvious absurdities: for example, somebody who bought Bear Stearns at $60 on March 13 2008 got just as good a deal as somebody who bought Bear at $3 on March 17; Bernie Madoff's fund management services were worth every penny until his arrest; etc. There is nothing 'subjective' about either Bear's hiding of the worthlessness of its subprime books or the fraudulence of Madoff's scheme.
> And nobody runs Android on a phone where the entire stack is open source and blob free.

> Anyone who does is a rounding error.

I'm actually curious if there is literally anyone who uses no proprietary software, including the radios and the SoC, on their Android device.

My bet is that there's not even a single device out there for which this is possible. (If there is, I'd love to see it.)
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I'm the author.

My device sends an email at boot to the email address, and it has also been triggered at other times - I am not sure why.

It looks like there are a number of variants of the device out there.

The repo mentioned in another comment has a MakeFile for another device, and has been forked 9 times. It could be used anywhere.

The article will be updated, but I'll have to get a trace another time.
That is possibly true for current models of the iPhone. It is significantly less true for the 5c in question, which has less robust security features. See other answers referring to the Secure Enclave.
This is a good short summary of the accomplishments of the WWII Polish code breakers;

http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/virtualbp/poles/poles.htm
If they beat the order they could always do what GP said, crack the password, and hand in a decrypted copy of the device. Everyone goes home happy: no precedent set, FBI gets their data, going into the future as old iOS devices die Apple won't even be able to pull that stunt again if they want to.
If you want to describe Apple's actions in terms of market competition, then you should also describe the consumer (our) reaction in similar terms.

We as consumers should support the companies that have the best, in terms of product usability as well business ethic, market strategy by buying said companys product and recommending and commending their actions.

So props to Apple for leading an ethical business strategy.
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To make the backdoor general purpose, this line would need to be removed.

Or the ID on the device be changed to match "san_b_device_id".
I wonder what will be response of other manufacturers making phones with Android.
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What it sounds like is they've been asked to prepare a new OS release that allows an unlimited number of attempts to enter the passphrase via some network link. The press release is written to sound like without a software release, it wouldn't be possible to mount this kind of attack, however attacks like this are generally possible regardless of having some specially modified and signed OS image: for example, by cutting power to the hardware precisely when it is clear a password was incorrect, before the hardware has time to implement any destructive actions. Attacks like this have been used against SIM cards since the 90s.

I'm ambivalent regarding Apple's stance. In principle they are doing the right thing, but in practice, it seems they may be kicking up a whole lot of fuss over a relatively minor issue (with the exception that providing an easy means to brute force a phone to the authorities sets a horrible precedent). As for creating a universal backdoor, it seems highly unlikely they couldn't produce a signed OS / coprocessor firmware image that wasn't locked to one of the various serial numbers associated with this particular device

edit: as mentioned below, this order entirely originates with Apple's use of DRM to prevent software modification. Had users actual control over the devices they own the FBI wouldn't need to request a signed firmware in the first place. Please think twice about what Apple might really be defending here before downvoting
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Yeah, it wasn't at all clear to me from 2 minutes of static analysis under what circumstances an email would be sent and to which address. I'd hope the authors of the linked article would have verified this with a packet sniffer (as mentioned in another comment here) before making the claim.
I suspected this might be the case but I don't know Fortran. Maybe you're right about Julia and Lua also, I'll have to investigate.
Actually, there is a third business model which doesn't exploit its users' privacy, nor does it have to resort to closed-source licensing (but selling add-on services like support and customization). This is the model adopted by companies like Red Hat, Canonical and to some extent Google (in a few products).

The future, in fact, belongs to this third business model that helps a business earn profits without hurting its users in any manner. Ultimately, all the IT companies will have to embrace this model in order to stay in the market and survive. Competition will ensure that they will.
I agree that things like forever aren't a great process manager, immediately jumping from that to something like Dokku is the wrong move IMO.

Phusion Passenger will manage processes (including multiple concurrent processes if required) for a node (or python or ruby) app, and can run under Apache, Nginx or stand-alone.

This doesn't drastically change the infrastructure involved as Docku/Deis/etc would, but provides a much more robust solution.
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This may be one of the most important things Apple has done. Whether or not you agree with their position, it's incredibly important that tech companies start publicly explaining things like the fundamental problems with backdoors so that a lay person can understand it. Apple have the credibility to make non-technical people take their argument seriously, and the reach to get the message out to a vast number of people. I'm really pleased they're taking this position.
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>theft

Alice takes some of Bob's property without Bob's permission and with the intent to permanently deprive him of it. Alice is a thief.
It is rather interesting that this isn't upvoted it does reveal an interesting bias.
Once they build that in for one device then they have opened pandora's box.

Then it becomes a precedent in the courts that Apple has this ability so they will issue court orders to make them comply for every single case where a phone is encrypted.
I would bet you all the money in the world that the very second such a firmware image was provided to the FBI it would find its way to the CIA/NSA. All with the assumption of course that the FBI has no rogue agents who work for foreign governments or criminal organisations.

Apple is right to be terrified at the thought of being asked to make such a firmware image.
>How about the guy whose hands were cut off when he tried to smuggle fuel across the border that wasn't closed?

What? I've never been anywhere near the Nepali border, but have spent enough time in India to know that it's not lawless anarchy. I'll have to ask you for a source on this please.
> Why wold Google and Facebook get behind this? They store their customers data in a way they can access and subsequently have to give it to persecuters when there's a court order

Exactly like Apple. Or do you think that the emails in iCloud are not given to the prosecutors?
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Author here.

I submitted a review but it has yet to be approved.

It has been approved but the exploit link and link to the blog post are not in it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R20SLCJIPN9UDB/ref=pe_157228...
What I don't understand is why Apple could create such software but a hacker could not exploit it.
I feel like that mean that there is already a backdoor.
I wholeheartedly agree. I'm still using a T61 because I don't really like any of the models that succeeded it. The new keyboard, the reduced keyboard layout, the huge touchpad (which I disable anyway) with those reduced buttons, small screen resolutions compared to my 1400x1050 (unless you pay for the ultra expensive display panel or get)...it's just not attractive anymore. And as the author said, thinkpads are still among the best laptops :/ I'd be willing to throw some money at lenovo for a laptop I want to have but it looks like they're no longer producing those :(
You are of course correct. I edited my comment.
If anything the GDPs of relatively poorer countries are underestimated.
they recently redesigned them to include physical buttons again, if that's what you're referring to in the x40x series.
Hmmm. If this pans out in Apple's favor, I may finally buy an iPhone.
It used to be possible to do what you describe (cutting power at the right moment) and there were even physical bruteforce devices built to implement this but it's all been hardened in iOS 8 and there are no currently known ways to bruteforce a passcode. Obviously there might theoretically exist a software bug to do so, but there's no information around and it sounds even FBI couldn't find it if it exists
From the link that was posted in reply to you, 'hope against hope' means 'to have hope even when the situation appears to be hopeless'. Which means he does have hope, even though the situation appears to be hopeless.
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> They are just exploiting that competitive advantage.

... and that's what I paid them for, thanks for not taking money both from me and from FBI :)
I wonder how much of that was personally written by Tim Cook, vs. various other people within Apple (I'm sure legal, PR, product, etc. all had input, but this feels like something he wrote himself.)
In which case the best way to proceed would be to say that they will try to do it and after few months of investigation say the data became corrupted before they even got the phone. Who's going to verify it? No one.
well, now that you mention...

i was commenting only on the article that says they wanted apple to remove the "wipe data after X tries"
Few months? Housing has been on steady increase for the last 10 years.
There are escalating time limits on incorrect PIN attempts, which is also enforced in hardware by the Secure Enclave in A7 chips and above. This would mean even breaking a 4-digit pin code without that delay being removed would take a long time. Additionally the device may be set to wipe after 10 incorrect attempts.

Attempts | Delay

1-4: none

5: 1 minute

6: 5 minutes

7-8: 15 minutes

9: 1 hour

Source: https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
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Its a sort of interior trim.

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> with the exception that providing an easy means to brute force a phone to the authorities sets a horrible precedent

This is the entire concern (in my opinion and in my reading of Tim Cook's opinion). If the government can force Apple to backdoor this one iPhone (because terrorist), then they can force Apple to backdoor any iPhone for any person given a valid warrant, subpoena or otherwise granted power. Once the flood gates open...
For right click, configure it as 2-finger click, it's easier (at least for me)

Concavity helps but chiclet keyboards are usually better than regular ones for notebooks

> The keyboard has no Home, End, Page Up/Page Down or Delete keys. It is also lacking an Insert (overwrite) key

True, that sucks. But there are combinations of keys to do that. PgUp = Fn+Up direction key. Home/End for single line entries is Up/Down, etc (google it)

You kind of get used to it until you plug a PC keyboard then hate yourself for a couple of days (but it gets back eventually)
It is correct that there is "one main content" per page, available in the 'body' attribute.

However, to me the distinctive feature of a blog is not that, but the way entries are ordered (i.e. reverse order by date). For a manual, faq, feature requests,... I need a different ordering scheme, but I am happy with the "one main content" concept.

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Nope. Once this option will be there, a single-button iPhone cracker box with lighting connector will be available on aliexpress in cca 3 weeks.
> they may be kicking up a whole lot of fuss over a relatively minor issue

I strongly disagree. They are taking a stance in the debate about government mandated backdoors in software.