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FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone
- ggm 8mo agoIf she'd held her finger on the reader long enough wouldn't it have force powered down the mac? (from the article, they held her finger on the reader. Unlike the phone, this did unlock the mac)
- throwawaymobule 8mo agoI think touching it to read a fingerprint doesn't count as pressing the button, which requires pressure.
- al_borland 8mo agoI think it’s absolutely ridiculous that someone can be compelled to give up their biometric login, when a password is off limits. It feels like this goes against the spirit of the 5th amendment. This is especially true as the industry pushes more and more toward Passkeys and other passwordless means of login, which rely more and more on biometrics.
- fodkodrasz 8mo agoDefinitely not a coincidence. Oh we do end-to-end encrypt everything for your safety, see our article on the unbreakable protocol... but you can unlock everything with this 4 digit windows hello pin, unlimited retries, you are mandatory to define the pin, if you want to use high security features... Totally not a backdoor. Apple is more principled on this front definitely.
- maneesh 8mo agoIsn’t a pin considered a password and not required to be given up, unlike a fingerprint or Face ID?
- al_borland 8mo agoBut a 4 digit PIN with unlimited retries can be brute forced. Replacing a password with a 4 digit PIN is less secure. If a user wanted a 4 character password, they’d make a 4 character password. Forcing the creation doesn’t make much sense on a desktop.
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- jauntywundrkind 8mo agoThe judge also blocked the FBI from reading any of the data they found, a week ago! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-blocks-doj-from-searching-washington-post-reporter-hannah-natanson-phone-and-laptop/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-blocks-doj-from-searching... And thank the stars! This is incredibly chilling deeply disturbing an event to have happened at all. Raiding journalists like this is wild. The judge is pretty pissed that the FBI for not telling them how illegal this search was in the first place. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/judge-rips-washington-post-fbi-reporter-warrant https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/judge-rips-washingto... It's incredible what a spineless weak willed authoritarian group of losers are running things now. Zero spine, just lawless pathetic intimidation at every turn. What shrill animals.
- 5o1ecist 8mo ago[flagged]
- replooda 8mo ago1. He spoke truth. xkcd 538 may make people believe and claim 2+2=5, but it won't rewrite math or make a previous claim of 4 less correct. 2. If you think a post like his can invite no serious negative consequences at all, thus requiring no modicum of courage, we'd all like to hear about your past few years in a bunker. 3. If nothing else, the other post is useful, in that it provided additional information. Yours carries all the value black-pill bromides usually do, which is...
- Kiboneu 8mo agoIdea: canary fingers. You register a few digits that wipe filesystem keys from memory so that no further biometrics can be used. It’s like what happens when you hold the power button on an iphone, but with a fun russian roulette twist.
- sourcegrift 8mo agoEven Europe has become authoritarian these days. Specially UK. I'm praying for the world
- hermanzegerman 8mo agoUK was always authoritarian. Just look at their extensive CCTV Operations they put up even 10 or 20 years ago. To us Europeans it has always been a "US Lite Version"