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Not surprised by this. Apple is part of the PRISM program after all. I'm reminded of when the FBI demanded to crack the iPhone [1] Apple publicly refused, then

Not surprised by this. Apple is part of the PRISM program after all. I'm reminded of when the FBI demanded to crack the iPhone [1] Apple publicly refused, then released an update to the secure element/fingerprint reader [2] bricking phones, followed by a 'fix' [3] and then wow, FBI can crack the shooters iPhone [4]. Gotta hand it to them. They put on a great show. Fools most of the people all of the time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple... [3] https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/18/apple-apologizes-and-updates-ios-to-restore-iphones-disabled-by-error-53/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/18/apple-apologizes-and-updat... [4] http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/companies/fbi-apple-iphone-case-cracked/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/companies/fbi-apple-iph...

eridius 9y ago
I hate to burst your bubble, but the phone the FBI was trying to break into didn't have a secure element. And the approach they used to finally break in was supplied by Cellebrite, not Apple, and only worked because it didn't have a secure element. Also, this has nothing to do with PRISM, it's just a consequence of a recent Chinese law. Apple has two options. The first is to hand control of the data over to a Chinese company (which is what they're doing). The second is to pull out of China entirely (or at least, completely disable iCloud in China), which would suck for Chinese iPhone users and wouldn't make them any more secure.
- chapill 9y ago
  >the phone the FBI was trying to break into didn't have a secure element That's unimportant. The important aspect is the update timing as well as the changes obviously happening in the security architecture of iOS. That they tangentially bricked phones with 3rd party repairs is just an indicator of spaghetti code.

eridius 9y ago

I hate to burst your bubble, but the phone the FBI was trying to break into didn't have a secure element. And the approach they used to finally break in was supplied by Cellebrite, not Apple, and only worked because it didn't have a secure element. Also, this has nothing to do with PRISM, it's just a consequence of a recent Chinese law. Apple has two options. The first is to hand control of the data over to a Chinese company (which is what they're doing). The second is to pull out of China entirely (or at least, completely disable iCloud in China), which would suck for Chinese iPhone users and wouldn't make them any more secure.

chapill 9y ago
>the phone the FBI was trying to break into didn't have a secure element That's unimportant. The important aspect is the update timing as well as the changes obviously happening in the security architecture of iOS. That they tangentially bricked phones with 3rd party repairs is just an indicator of spaghetti code.