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No. No it's not. please tell me how someone is going to get those passwords without root. (hint, they're not)

additionally, how is this different than NY laptop with Pidgin accounts, my IMAP client, Firefox's stored passwords, etc.
Does Apple iPhone uses mobile TPM? Any known mobile phone?
I'd be interested in hearing more and discussing. Give me a shout: bb (at) fea (dot) st
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You're comparing one component to a complete product.

At a minimum you'd need to add a TTL-to-RS232 converter, wiring, connectors, and I believe a proprietary "MFi" chip from Apple is required to use protocols other than the ones blessed by Apple (and surprise, the serial port profile isn't one of them)

Plus the prices I'm seeing right now show the cable is $59.00 and the Bluetooth chip is $59.95.
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Sorry to be this thread's grammar troll, but I would be very happy if OP (and the person who wrote this article) would edit the title to read:

On Seceding Steve Jobs

Succeeding means something totally different than seceding!

That bit of ugliness aside, I agree with the basic premise of this article. It would be tremendously risky for the board to bring in an outsider, and when you consider the structure of Apple's management, Tim Cook is the only reasonable choice to secede Jobs. However, Mr. Cook will have his work cut out for him as Jobs has an iconic stature, both within his company, on Wall Street and throughout the technology community.

However, on a strictly personal note, I feel sorry for whoever does eventually replace Mr. Jobs. There will inevitably be a few years when every time the new CEO makes an error, someone (either within the company, on Wall Street or within the media) will say, "If Steve Jobs were around this would never have happened."

In that regard, getting Steve Wozniak to firmly and publicly support the new CEO will be a major factor in his/her success.
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But it did, didn't it? By sending that email that got x people to look at the page.

If it were a store having a sale, they would consider it a win if people shared the sale flyer and enticed more people to come.
I guess we agree (see my edit).

By "hardware ID", you mean a unique salt.

Unfortunately even with a unique salt, 7-digit PINs are not strong enough if, from a theoretical viewpoint, we assume they can be bruteforced at a few thousand per second.

Does Apple IOS really use PBKDF2? The Fraunhofer paper does not mention it. http://sit.sit.fraunhofer.de/studies/en/sc-iphone-passwords....
My dad once told me that someone in the community he grew up in wore long sleeves year-round and said it "keeps the cold off you in winter and keeps the heat off you in summer". This was in Indiana and my dad grew up on a farm where people worked really hard (after WWII was over, he rejoined the army so he could sleep in and work less hard -- he felt it wasn't a bad gig as long as they weren't shooting at you).

I am also reminded of how my oldest son wanted to wear a winter coat in June when he was 2 years old because it came in the mail from relatives around the same time I bought him new shoes and the coat and shoes matched. I felt it was not too risky since he was born in Texas and we were living in Germany at the time. So I taught him that half your heat escapes through your head, so just keep the hood off and don't zip it all the way up (so heat could vent from around his neck). He now tells me this lesson stayed with him throughout his childhood and he was better at dealing with cold weather than the other school kids because of it.
Okay, thank you for clarifying and expanding on that.
As well as the enormous "Maker Shed" tax. My company made a product that was sold there, and Make wanted a >60% margin.
Same here. I <3 Google Chrome.
> It's a pity that DF isn't open source either

I don't get that. It's totally donation-supported. Is it a pride thing? A control thing? I have already tried it out if it were in apt.
Just to throw it out there, Mark Zuckerberg could be a candidate if Apple ever acquired Facebook.
Is there any place it's more appropriate than a site called ycombinator?
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There's a certain truth value to that.

There's also the perception that social networking is the game to be in, and it's been the carrot everyone's been chasing for quite a while, and that AOL saw success with Bebo as absolutely vital to its corporate survival, worth the risks. Subsequent developments bear this out somewhat as Bebo's failed and been spun off, and AOL continues its decline.

There's also the truth that social is a network-effects game. The bigger your network, the greater the value. Up to a point. From a user perspective, the Odlyzko/Tilly refinement of Metcalfe's Law is a better estimator: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf

Essentially: for any member, there are a small number of high-value members of any network. Additional members have a decreasing marginal value, and eventually (particularly with heavy marketing adoption of a network, but also with trolls and other malevolents) many members have a negative participation value. The death of many prior "social networks" (Usenet, email, Myspace, early AOL) derives in part from this negative aspect of growth, as well as the flight of high-value participants to nascent (and high S/N) networks. Such as, say, HN.

The social value of networks is hugely volatile and tippy. Networks can go from titan to has-been in a matter of a few years, though some survive longer: AOL, Geocities, Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, Google+, ....

The network effects also come into play on the business side, and the business side of social networking is advertising and marketing. Here Google already have a huge advantage (and are already the subject of some anti-trust investigations). This both increases the likelihood of success for Google and raises the bar for new entrants.

The other interesting story from history is that while early-stage technology is often marked by the emergence of walled gardens (think of the time when MCImail, Prodigy, and AOL mail systems couldn't communicate with one another), eventually such networks tend to merge. At the same time, commodity backbone providers (telcos, generally) tend strongly to consolidate. The two opposing factors are commoditization and opening of protocols (e.g.: SMTP) and the monopolization of common carrier infrastructures (rail, telegraph, telephone, radio/TV, mobile, Internet).

If history is any guide, we'll eventually see some set of social networking protocols emerge (messaging, identity, authentication, directory services, data interchange), while there's a consolidation of certain back-end services (comms, advertising networks, possibly compute resources and storage). Initiatives such as Diaspora may play a role, or not. Give that another 4-5 years to play out.
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Sorry, no. Those verbs are indeed totally different, and you have them backwards.
From the features section, it says "Enables development of iOS apps for private use in homes, schools and offices"

Is it possible to also use this for non-private apps - that is - apps submitted to the App Store?
Advertising is a fun problem space to work in. Huge amounts of traffic and data to process. Doing user prediction. All sorts of neat stuff. There are also a lot of smaller companies out there looking for good developers all the time. Get to know the industry and don't limit yourself to the top 5 and you can get in easy.

Stuff like profiles on users a lot of companies already do we also do stuff like predict based on numerous factors how likely you are to convert on different products. All this without you filling out a form.

Local ads are interesting but more work in selling. As for stuff like weightloss pills the reason you see so much of these is because very few sites can fill their full inventory with relevant paying advertisers so they put whatever they can in the spaces and keep their fingers crossed. The more profiling you do the less likely you are to find relevant advertisers.
> Name one outsider who’d be accepted both inside the company and on Wall Street.

Maybe somebody from Pepsi?
If you use a TPM to store your device encryption key, a PIN combination should be fine. Of course, by definition that requires hardware support.

I work in Android security in particular for a manufacturer. We came across the unencrypted email pass ourselves, but decided it was fine for two reasons:

1) If you don't get rooted, there should be no way to pull from /data/data/* in the first place.

2) With filesystem encryption turned on, you essentially get the benefit of encrypting that pass along with everything else.
Who said it was better than Bluetooth?

There are a lot of existing hardware devices that have RS232 connections but don't support Bluetooth. For those devices this is "better" than Bluetooth in the sense that Bluetooth isn't an option at all.
http://www.infoworld.com/%5Bprimary-term-alias-prefix%5D/%5B... According to this (mind you, this is my sole source), iOS 3+ use PBKDF2, with iOS 4 using 10k rounds.
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Gruber's dismissal of Ive as a candidate is pretty solidly based. I don't think Ive has even appeared in a speaking role in a keynote. I just don't think it's his kind of gig (and why should it be?)
How about giving your users 48 hours notice before you take any action? Too much to ask?
To be fair, Gates was more business man than any sort of hacker. While Zuckerberg may have actually coded his first product, unlike Gates, making a web app, no matter how popular, is far cry from what Carmack and Wozniak have done.

Perhaps it's an illustration that it's often not fancy maths and algorithms that pay, but rather being in the right place at the right time with the right product. That said, there are instances like Google and Carmack where it really was the algorithms that made the difference.
Jonathan Ive - He's creative and brilliant similar to Jobs. Apple needs an unconventional leader - Tim Cook is too convetional to lead and inspire from the top.
A PIN short enough for almost any user to be bothered entering it to unlock the phone is not going to be long enough to resist brute force attacks, even with a 10,000x PBKDF2 work factor.
they did announce the people widget. i'm hoping they've thought about this.
Android supports text passwords as well. Also, in a sane security model, it'd be possible to separate having a long password for elevated privileges (i.e. things that could further open the door to compromises like booting and installing apps) from the one simply to unlock the screen.

Your average consumer probably wouldn't avail themselves to such measures, but it'd let the paranoid and companies with security policies at least have semi-reasonable security as an option.
Second your disagreement.

Woz is a real hacker, if not one of the best ever.

Long excerpt from his amazing Founders at Work interview.

"This was two weeks away and Mike Markkula said yes. So that was my motivation. I always had these little fictitious motivations that motivated me and got me to do such great work. So I sat down and designed the floppy disk, and Randy Wigginton (he was the guy just out of high school) and I came in every single day including Christmas and New Years for 2 weeks. I came in every single day leading up to, I think it was January 3 or 5, when we went off to Las Vegas. I almost had this floppy disk done.

I got it to where it was writing data on a track, reading the data on a track. Then I got it to where it was reading the data in the right byte positions. Then I got it to work with shifting tracks, and we wanted a simple program where we would say "run checkbook" or "run color math" and it would run the programs that were stored on the floppy disk. So we went off to Las Vegas, and Randy and I worked all night and we got it done to where it was working. At the very end, it was 6:00 a.m. and I said, 'We have to back up this floppy disk." We had one good disk that we prepared with the data hand-massaged to get it just right. So I stuck it in the floppy and wrote a little program, and I typed in some data and I said "read track 0," stuck in the other floppy and said "write track 0, read track 1, write track 1." There were 36 tracks—I had to switch floppies back and forth.

When I got done, I'm looking at these 2 floppies that look just the same. And I decided that I might have written onto the good one from the bad, and I did. So I had lost it all. I went back to my hotel room. I slept for a while. I got up about 10:00 a.m. or so. I sat down and, out of my head and my listings, recreated everything, got it working again, and we showed it at the show. It was a huge hit. Everybody was saying, "Oh my God, Apple has a floppy!" It just looked beautiful, plugged into a slot on our computer. We were able to say "run color math," and it just runs instantly. It was a change in time.

But the real eureka moment for me was the very first time I ever read data back. I wrote it on the floppy, which was easy, but read it back, got it right. I just died."

The whole interview (and book) are inspiring:

http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html
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But if you have physical access to the phone, why couldn't you root it?
and VistaPrint.
Minor quibble: Gates was surrounded by suits and lawyers. The Microsoft empire was built on having a better understanding of IP law and licensing than pretty much anyone else at the time.

One of Jobs's much underrated talents was (and presumably still is) supply chain negotiation -- Apple's first billion came from a combination of brilliant negotiation (getting floppy drive mechanisms at an incredible price) and engineering (Woz created a brilliantly simple and inexpensive floppy drive controller for less than a tenth of the cost of competing equivalents).
I agree with Gruber's analysis, but one part that worries me is the idea of having each SVP accountable for product decisions for their own area. I think that so much of Apple's advantages stem from hardware and software that are designed with each other in mind, that it would be much better to have a single person be SVP Product Design under Cook, so that there was always someone responsible for the entire cohesive user experience. Unfortunately, choosing such a person for this role among the three product SVP's that Gruber names is itself a very difficult political problem, and any choice could result in other talent leaving.
>Google+ : Traffic peaked the week from July 5-12 and has since declined. I'm not surprised. Who is - and why?
If Jobs has really, truly done it right this time, he won't need to be replaced. Cook, Forstall, Ive, and Schiller are obviously people he trusts with his life's work. Time will tell how good his choice of stewards was, but given that he learned the hard way nearly three decades ago, I'd say the odds are in his favor.
Couldn't someone take the hard drive out of your laptop and mount it in on another system and peruse through the necessary files?
It's nice to bring interesting bugs to light, but I hate how posting links to bugs always results in a pile on of useless comments. It evens says "Each comment triggers notification emails. So, please do not post "+1 Me too!".
Instead, click the star icon." next to the comment box, but people apparently think things like "please try to fix it , security on mobile devices need to be more powerful" are worth emailing 500+ people about.

In a sense, it may be Google Code's fault; they shouldn't call them "comments". It's the same terminology that is used on YouTube, HN, and other such sites where people who aren't involved are free to weigh in with whatever they say (albeit with moderation and voting). It should probably be called a "Status update" or some such, as that would give a more accurate impression of what that box is for.
Is that a Catch-22?
I can vouch for Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron, and Victora (all from the same developer as Europa Universalis: Paradox Interactive) as having the kind of beyond-Civ levels of depth and complexity you're looking for. Each is tailored to it's own slice of history in a way that Civ by nature can't be.
there are many businesses around today that you might only once in a lifetime come across - if even at all. Funeral homes, disaster restoration companies, etc. However, they are amazingly competitive industries and have amazingly high margins.

That means they will fight with all means they can to insure that their ability to protect those margins is in place.
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I thought email was supposed to be replaced by Google Wave on the evolutionary ladder? Oh, wait.
how affordable is epipheostudios? I like their work, but I believe it would be very expensive as most of their clients are huge
I think that headline sucks. (yes, you arstechnica editors.)
Aside from that one, everything else was very clear and helpful. I've read about closures a few times, but don't think I really got it until finishing your exercises. Thanks!
How can they be amazingly competitive industries AND have amazingly high margins at the same time? I thought those were mutually exclusive things.
You're right. The issue is that for a woman to pick up one of these nerds she would have to be unusually aggressive in pursuing the nerd-genius and yet also unusually submissive since the nerd-genius (like any great artist) would have strange and demanding needs to which she would need to conform and satisfy.

She'd have to be Courney Love, and there aren't many of those. And shed have to somehow meet the nerd despite his reclusively.

The fear of girls is definitely what makes hacker geniuses more like monks than painters. I admire the crap out of great hackers but my sex needs come before my art.
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He's a non-science founder ;)
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> No. No it's not. please tell me how someone is going to get those passwords without root. (hint, they're not)

By running an exploit to get up to root, or by attacking it physically. Neither of these are particularly difficult or unlikely.

> additionally, how is this different than NY laptop with Pidgin accounts, my IMAP client, Firefox's stored passwords, etc.

It's not, if you're saving passwords without a master key. If you're using, say, 1Password, then your master key has to be compromised to get the passwords.
I mean, yeah, I get that that's the hope, but I'm not sure I buy the idea that a collection of individuals even as talented and capable as those can really replace someone with as singular a vision and fierce a personality as Jobs. I'm sure they'll be able to run the company, but I just don't see Apple maintaining its place as market-inventing thought-leader, or at least not to the same degree.
Most Apple products, of course, are not $59 DB-9 cables. They're a bit more functional and have a bit more design appeal than that, to be fair. I'm sure you agree.
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To play Ive's advocate here: Jobs probably wants people who speak at events to serve specific functions. The product visionary role is currently filled by Steve. You only do a few of these a year and you aren't going to buzzkill the free pub by running the understudy up there if the lead is available.

Edit:

The above is in regards to Ive being a private person and not liking the public speaking gig. Of course for all we know Steve is a private person and may not like the public speaking gig but he does it because it's a necessary function.

The strongest argument for Ive of course is that what set's Apple apart from other companies is that it's design/product driven. See Steve's comments re: what happens when The Sales Guy ends up running the whole show.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2004/nf200410...

Obviously you can say "well Phil is The Sales Guy" (which is a bit of a dodge) and also that "Tim took over for Steve when he was totally unable to work" which is at least partially true (was he really doing everything Steve did?). So maybe Tim Cook can by a product visionary. Maybe Jon Ive can't.

But if you start from this one small and very arguable given that Steve wants Apple to be led by a product visionary and not the sales/operations guy that leads you to Jon Ive being the best candidate. There's other evidence too of course, reports are the two are quite close on Apple campus although I imagine Tim Cook would qualify based on that criteria as well.
Zuckerberg would be a terrible choice for a lot of pretty obvious reasons.
I'd bet these guys have templates in place just for major events - especially terrorist attacks.

I recall on Sept 11th the sheer rush from users to consume information on the Internet. If something like 9/11 ever happens again anywhere in the world, spammers will jump right on the event like flies on sh*t.
I think government needs to use tax money for “police, courts, and defense” and that’s it. If I were king of the world, there wouldn’t be a king of the world and NASA would be private. But who cares what I think? We have NASA and they do the coolest things. It can’t be justified with Tang and Crazy Glue. Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore.

Cognitive dissonance much?
I didn't intend my comment to be a complete retelling; I was just pointing out some odd things that stood out to me, and asking if anyone else here knew what they might represent.
this. a tag text input even.
A TPM is obviously the best solution here, on all counts, but it's not possible to put one into every phone that's already been sold, so clearly we need a software mechanism that at least helps.

As it stands, if an attacker gains root on your device (which could be locally, via a malicious app running a local root, or via a malicious page exploiting a browser bug and then escalating with a local root), they have the keys to the castle. This is true whether you have filesystem encryption on or not.

Leaving these in plaintext is equivalent to storing plaintext passwords in /etc/shadow; yes, only root can access it, but getting root is by no means impossible. If an attacker does get access to it, it shouldn't be an immediate game-over for your passwords.
The iPhone does not, and I'm not aware of any that do. Even the Blackberry, which is intended for high security of such things, simply uses PBKDF2. However, a TPM is the best solution here.
May I recommend "The American Way of Death" by Jessica Mitford (the entirely human Mitford sister)?

The basic story is that the funeral industry completely captured the regulating of the disposal of dead people a long, long time ago.
Is there a list of advertising industry YC companies?
hmm... what about many virtual envs each with their own pythons?
Security theatre isn't the extent of all security measures being taken in the US and other countries. There is a lot of effort going on that is less visible, though sometimes there are arrests that make the news. In the end we only have the crude statistics of observing events vs non-events, if the US were actually just as easy to hit then logically there should have been more successful attacks, but that's not the case.
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