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But you have to consider potential damage from the successful attack. It doesn't matter if 99% of low damage attacks are unsuccessful but 1% high damage attack
by vdaniuk 13y ago
But you have to consider potential damage from the successful attack.
It doesn't matter if 99% of low damage attacks are unsuccessful but 1% high damage attacks will go through.
The solution is fine by itself but millions of people will use it and not understand the real level of protection.
- solarmist 13y agoWell right now I'd guess that the percent of high damage attacks that go through are significantly higher than 1%, so lowering that to "1%" isn't an improvement?
- Bud 13y agoThe potential damage is zero. You (and everyone else in this thread) are forgetting that you can't steal an iPhone for more than 30 seconds anymore without Activation Lock locking you and everyone else out, forever, period, paragraph. Activation Lock + Touch ID = all the security that almost anyone needs on a phone and much higher security than any of us have been used to up to now.
- yaeger 13y agoI think this is key here. Before, you could try and lock or wipe your phone when it was stolen. But in order for it to work the thief must have let it powered on. If he was smart and shut it off, took it home and booted into DFU mode to restore a the thing back to factory settings, you were out of luck. But with the new Activation Lock, it supposedly doesn't matter if it is shut down, the minute someone tries to flash the phone. Be it normally via iTunes or via DFU mode and iTunes there should appear a message that the phone has been wiped and must be unlocked with the iCloud password of the account that did the wiping. So no chance to flash the phone back to factory settings.