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If you give your phone to an adversary with large amounts of resources it is game over. If you have to worry about that I most certainly would hope that you wo

by tjoff 4y ago

If you give your phone to an adversary with large amounts of resources it is game over. If you have to worry about that I most certainly would hope that you wouldn't leave your phone to a repair-shop.

sosull 4y ago
It’s a very fair point, but stranger things have happened. Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controversy?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers...
Spivak 4y ago
Everyone keeps parroting this like it's 1995 but infinite resources doesn't really help you. In the US FBI case they happened to chain a few now patched exploits in the lightning port that did nothing except allow them the ability to brute force the password. Had the password been strong it would have been game over. Regular, run of the mill encryption you can download at every corner store can withstand attacks from nation states.
- chasd00 4y ago
  well, depending on the adversary, the resources required could be trivial. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png
- solardev 4y ago
  Zero-days are a thing, as well as companies that find them specifically to sell to governments
mechanical_bear 4y ago
Or leave your MacBook at a repair shop with texts and emails to various VIPs, etc on it… oh wait.