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“Even Apple, with all their skills — and they have terrific cryptographers — wasn’t able to quite get this right,” said Green, whose team of graduate students w
by bsimpson 11y ago
“Even Apple, with all their skills — and they have terrific cryptographers — wasn’t able to quite get this right,” said Green, whose team of graduate students will publish a paper describing the attack as soon as Apple issues a patch.
reminds me of John Oliver's fake Apple ad from last week:
"We're barely one step of hackers at any time," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjZ2r9Ygzw#t=15m50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjZ2r9Ygzw#t=15m50
- unabst 11y agoAll the FBI or anyone with a locked phone has to do is wait without updating the phone. Eventually an exploit for that version will emerge. It appears they've already caught up to iphone5 and iOS 8. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=ios+passcode&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xios+ip+box.TRS0&_nkw=ios+ip+box&_sacat=0 http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=ios+passcode&_osacat=0&...
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoNothing wrong with that. Hacking goes both ways.
- runesoerensen 11y agoThey thought of that ad too it seems ;) "Dancing on the Lip of the Volcano: Chosen Ciphertext Attacks on Apple iMessage". Yes, the title is totally stolen from @LastWeekTonight https://twitter.com/secparam/status/712106956538793984 https://twitter.com/secparam/status/712106956538793984