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That said I think John McAfee and probably a few people on here could get in, so the tl;dr is ya they coming for that secure enclave. Small note - in the case
by pja 11y ago
That said I think John McAfee and probably a few people on here could get in, so the tl;dr is ya they coming for that secure enclave.
Small note - in the case of this particular phone it doesn’t have a secure enclave. But yes, I’m sure parts of the US government want to use this case as a stepping stone to gaining access to the secure enclave via legally mandated means.
Once they have a legally enforced backdoor, that’s a mechanism that the security services can use worldwide to compromise any phone they’re interested in, as we’ve seen with the mandated wiretap accesses built in to phone switches.
- vonklaus 11y ago> Small note - in the case of this particular phone it doesn’t have a secure enclave. Correct. Should have said this explicitly. They could use the precedent of bypass functionality in this instance to have it ship with new phones bypassing SE. I think the enclave is probably an enclave, but if it is secure they are going to want access to it. Picking a 5c in this instance and getting the Supreme Court to grant this would be a good way to make a defacto law that applies to a markedly different set of technology sets.