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You're missing the point. Nothing is preventing free software from running on hardware that contains a hardware key just like the iPhone.
by devishard 11y ago
You're missing the point. Nothing is preventing free software from running on hardware that contains a hardware key just like the iPhone.
- superuser2 11y agoNope, you are. Nothing prevents it, nothing makes it any more likely, but the free software community's opposition to TPM and hardware-enforced code signing does make it less likely. We still have to worry about this stuff even when the software is free.
- devishard 11y agoYou said: > If it's short enough that you're willing to type it every time you touch your phone, then it can probably be cracked very easily by cloning your flash storage and brute-forcing in parallel. That doesn't work with a unique hardware key. Being clearer since you missed it the first time: the attack you describe does not work on the iPhone. Nobody is proposing that FOSS is a security panacea: FOSS would still have to run on hardware with a hardware key to achieve similar password security. But if such FOSS existed, it could be more secure than the iPhone can be, because it would be immune to the attack that the FBI is attempting.