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Pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if Apple can and/or has baked trusted computing into the A4 silicon. By controlling this much of the hardware, Apple
by risotto 17y ago
Pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if Apple can and/or has baked trusted computing into the A4 silicon.
By controlling this much of the hardware, Apple can make it next to impossible to jailbreak their devices.
- wmf 17y agoWouldn't be surprising at all. http://www.arm.com/products/security/trustzone/index.html http://www.arm.com/products/security/trustzone/index.html
- blasdel 17y agoThere was nothing stopping them before: both generations of iPhone / iPod touch chips were bespoke SoC hardware too, just via Samsung.