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The article author is incompetent, it's all about private keys, not 'source code'. Neither Android OEMs nor Apple allows the user to set their own root cert.
by 05 11y ago
The article author is incompetent, it's all about private keys, not 'source code'. Neither Android OEMs nor Apple allows the user to set their own root cert.
- ikeboy 11y ago>Neither Android OEMs nor Apple allows the user to set their own root cert. Where does the article imply it does? It states correctly that the FBI would have easily hacked it had it been an android. edit: I'm assuming you're going from this line: >Although user content is encrypted on Android devices, too, Android is open-source software. Theoretically, the government can produce its own version of the system that would make it possible to hack the encryption. This is poorly worded, as is the line about how all encryption can be hacked, but he gets the point about how Android would have been vulnerable. I think some of that can be chalked down to writing for the public and not a technical audience.