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Can the screen hardware be tampered to give unauthorized people access to your phone? Genuinely curious about the threat model here. EDIT: > Phone Repair Gur
by sa1 5y ago
Can the screen hardware be tampered to give unauthorized people access to your phone?
Genuinely curious about the threat model here.
EDIT:
> Phone Repair Guru explains that there are some workarounds like transferring some chips to the new screen but most repair shops won’t do that because it’s “too sophisticated.”
- syshum 5y agoThe threat model is to Apple profit margin in being able to sell people that drop there phone a new one or selling Apple Care plans instead of independent repair There is no legitimate security issue, it all about control over the supply chain, and sales. I am generally anti-government, but I do think we need a Right to Repair laws to restore our property rights over the things we buy, companies should not be allowed to use software to lock us out of hardware we own. That is a violation of our natural rights IMO
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- takeda 5y agoYes we need Rights to Repair and also heavy penalties for planned obsolesce. I had 2 CyberPower UPS purchased around same time. And both started malfunctioning within the same year, turning off and on by itself and having a long beep sound, despite battery being fine. We are concerned about environment, and global warming, yet they are forcing everyone to toss the device into a trash and get a new one.
- chews 5y agoThe screen is a separate ribbon cable from the lidar camera, this is just plain anti-right to repair. Now it seems like apple is checksuming all hardware against the original device. This is bad for people.
- sa1 5y agoYeah, I agree.
- progbits 5y agoRemember back when there were those posts about camera swap breaking face id all the apologists came out defending it, saying all the repair concerns about batteries/screens/... were slippery slope fear mongering? Yeah... It is not slippery slope, it is slowly boiling the frog.
- chews 5y agoThis frog was in the pot on day one, I've been at this since it was just an aluminum and plastic iPhone. Apple's engineering culture in non inclusive of those not working at Apple. Period. They did the world a solid with LLVM, not argument there, but their stance changes with time and soon enough that may not be true for their other software teams, ala Swift on other platforms, but rest assured... once there is a market they capture it. By theft of implementation, or future breaking changes to the api, or changing the hardware to make it non-replaceable. Your newest Macbook is a fancy iPad with a keyboard and the ability to sideload software. Apple allways takes their ball home.
- FDSGSG 5y agoApple probably did not design it this way to make repairs difficult, but rather because it simply worked for them. Why should they need to consider independent repair shops? I agree that it's not acceptable for Apple to deliberately sabotage such repairs, but I wouldn't assume that this is deliberate without evidence. I think it's perfectly okay for Apple to make products which are too complicated for most independent repair shops to fix, just like I think it's okay for Ferrari and Lamborghini to do the same. Mandating otherwise would be anti-consumer.
- judge2020 5y agoThat's not what's at problem here. It's like how you can't swap parts of the logic board in case they fail (even if they rarely do) because of the design - I don't think many people will be mad at Apple for that. This is where two screens from brand new iPhone 13's can't be swapped without Face ID (which is no longer even attached to the screen) no longer working. Now, this might not be deliberate, especially given the setting app's screen warning doesn't say anything about Face ID being disabled, but it's not a good sign.
- beezischillin 5y agoWouldn't all tampering with FaceID involve shutting the phone off to disconnect and re-connect cables anyway, thus disabling FaceID until the correct passcode is entered?