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Assuming we have to use their devices, what measures can we take?
by omarfarooq 3y ago
Assuming we have to use their devices, what measures can we take?
- fsflover 3y agoThis is a weird assumption.
- omarfarooq 3y agoOnly a weird assumption if you're going to be rigid with solutions. Think along the lines of adversarial maneuvering. Software and hardware solutions to combat and neutralize privacy leaking effects.
- fsflover 3y agoYou do not control your Apple device. You can't see or change the code it runs. Apple's fundamental approach is "you trust us ultimately".
- omarfarooq 3y agoSo there's absolutely no avenues of reverse engineering here, is what you're saying? If so that speaks more to Apple's competence in being able to lock things down.
- smoldesu 3y agoThere are certainly things you can reverse-engineer with relation to MacOS and Mac hardware. Not everything is reversible though, and even third-party projects like Asahi still have to run the Apple-engineered Boot ROM and device firmware. In the fictional, expressly non-real world where Apple deliberately compromises their hardware for intelligence agencies, you are a fish in a barrel. No amount of "adversarial maneuvering" will meaningfully save you. Companies like Apple, Intel and AMD are proving to the world that the only secure hardware stack is a fully open one. God only knows what the second Snowden leak will reveal once current geopolitical tensions boil over...
- omarfarooq 3y agoIs it not enough to have a full view of all network requests? How can surveillance happen if we have full knowledge of what enters and leaves the device? Is there any evidence of hidden network requests?
- fsflover 3y agoIt's enough to detect the network requests and read some of them (since they are unencrypted as explained in TFA), but it's not enough to fix that.