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I thought that ended with the government getting into the phone using an exploit, just without forcing Apple's cooperation.
by philipov 9y ago
I thought that ended with the government getting into the phone using an exploit, just without forcing Apple's cooperation.
- jsmthrowaway 9y agoHence the hardened part. That exploit doesn’t work against any later model, and they spent a lot of money to get into that particular phone. Even with that observation, how can one claim “very insecure?” Do you think it’s that difficult to compromise a PC with physical access? What does secure even mean to people any more? I trust my phone a hell of a lot more than any general purpose computing platform, and I’d say the same if I owned any number of a significant collection of Android devices. This isn’t phone vs. phone advocacy, just annoyance at opinions that people disingenuously consider factual, useful observations on security.
- theptip 9y agoOnly after they paid an Israeli security company for a 0-day vulnerability, which allegedly cost north of $1m. Interested to know how that amount compares to other OSes, I really don't know what the going rate is on Windows/Linux.
- danieldk 9y agoAnd this was a vulnerability that concerned an iPhone 5c, which did not have a secure enclave. The iPhone 5s was the first model with Touch ID and an secure enclave. https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/226164-fbis-iphone-hack-limited-to-the-iphone-5c-earlier-devices https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/226164-fbis-iphone-hack-l...