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I think when a layman hears "unlock" they're more likely to picture a scene from a police detective drama when the investigators ask a landlord to unlock a dece
by Falkon1313 11y ago
I think when a layman hears "unlock" they're more likely to picture a scene from a police detective drama when the investigators ask a landlord to unlock a deceased tenant's apartment so that they can investigate.
If it were rephrased as "Hello Mr. Landlord, we're ordering you to open a machine shop and pay several employees to develop a new lockpicking device that could be copied infinitely for free and which would allow us, or anyone really... a North Korean agency, an organized crime syndicate, or a jealous and abusive ex-lover perhaps, to more easily break into any of the homes of billions of people around the world with or without reason or warrant?" then the layman might perceive it a little differently.
That seems to be like the message that Apple's trying to communicate, but I don't know if they're getting it across clearly enough for most people.
- nickysielicki 11y ago> "[...] to more easily break into [...] That's where your analogy breaks down. This hardly makes it easier. If North Korea or FBI or NSA or a criminal organization wanted to break into your iPhone, and this backdoor existed and was distributed, they would have to externally flash it with firmware and then hook up a controller that tricks the digitizer so that they can brute force the passcode, trying each one synchronously on a shitty mobile processor SoC. Is that really less complicated than externally reading the memory itself and using John the Ripper and a supercomputer? Is it meaningfully less complicated?
- Piskvorrr 11y agoYes, else this would be happening. The passcode is not the complete key, and there's a reason the Secure Enclave is named that way.
- nickysielicki 11y agoThe 5C has no secure enclave.