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So 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 d
by omarfarooq 3y ago
So 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.