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by plorg 11y ago
The warrant allows that the phone could be entirely in Apple's possession with the FBI having only programmatic access to the PIN input. Imagine, say, an isolated SSH server with serial access to a PIN input API.
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by plorg 11y ago
I am of a few minds about this. Firstly, I do not want to create a political environment where the government can tell people how their phones can be made (w.r.t. security, particularly). Thus, I want there to be clear limits on what federa
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by plorg 11y ago
Looking at my inbox I would suspect the major culprit to be marketing mail. By far the longest subject lines come from marketing messages, most of which are using the subject line to make their plea or call to action. Emails from real peopl
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by plorg 11y ago
That's good to hear.
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by plorg 11y ago
Similarly, you could reasonably argue that if there is a master key in this situation, it is Apple's firmware signing key, which the company already possess and has been using as a consequence of its inadequately examined security mode
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by plorg 11y ago
It seems that Apple got sick of servicing these requests, particularly as they started increasing in frequency. The NYTimes [0] reported earlier this week that Apple had been basically complying until last year, when they decided that they
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by plorg 11y ago
Maybe there's a different piece of legal justification elsewhere, but in this particular case it rests on the "All Writs" act. That act does not say that you cannot create a system that the government can't get into. It
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by plorg 11y ago
The difference isn't that you couldn't unlock (or, actually, just weaken) each device. It's that with Apple presumably in control of their signing key, they would need to get Apple's assistance any time they wanted to
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by plorg 11y ago
It is in fact not clear that what would be produced would be a master key. The warrant, for example, specifies that such a tool only apply to one device id. Given that firmware images need to be signed by Apple to be loaded, it would be rel
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by plorg 11y ago
It's not that reverse engineering is difficult - the FBI could theoretically do that now. It's that it needs to be signed to be accepted by the phone. Edit: see, for example, here: https://stratechery.com/2016&#x2F
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by plorg 11y ago
If I understand correctly, any piece of software that would be used would need to be signed by Apple. Furthermore, the FBI's warrant(?) says specifically that it would only need to work for one device ID. Thus it would be relatively st
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by plorg 11y ago
The phrase is a meme that comes from an actual (repeated) quote. In the context of that original quote there have been plenty of people who have commented on its grammatical errancy, but in the context of the meme it perhaps would make less
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Martin Shkreli Offers $10M for ‘The Life of Pablo’(nytimes.com)
2 points by plorg 11y ago|1 comments
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by plorg 11y ago
I have a friend who lives as close as one can legally live to a 100kW FM transmitter. He received a pair of very cheap speakers when he built a new computer but was unable to use them because if they were plugged in the radio signal would c
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Voter Records for 2M Iowans Exposed on GOP Site(wsj.com)
45 points by plorg 11y ago|23 comments
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by plorg 11y ago
Another user has compiled Benson's reviews into a Google spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wJwqv3rTNmORXz-XJsQa...
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Long Dormant, the First Super Bowl Is Resurrected(nytimes.com)
3 points by plorg 11y ago|0 comments
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by plorg 11y ago
On the other hand, isn't it hypocritical to recommend a de-escalation of police violence and power while at the same time encouraging citizens to take up guns against those "modern police forces"? The whole goal, if I would u
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by plorg 11y ago
Link for the curious: http://www.seakeepers.org/ For me this doesn't seem to show up on the first page of Google results for "SeaKeeper". Instead there's a gyro roll-stabilizing device for yachts that go
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by plorg 11y ago
My brother recently got one of these on his car, but he found he really didn't save anything by having it. Based simply on the amount of time driving during "peak hours", namely rush hour/when everyone is leaving work, h
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by plorg 11y ago
Right. I still wasn't looking closely enough.
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by plorg 11y ago
The figure used for converting metric tons CH4 to metric tons CO2e seems quite low, and I'm not sure what exactly it means in the context of the chart you cite. Indeed, if you plug "110,000" into the calculator [1] references
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by plorg 11y ago
So is the Rockchip device counting incorrectly, or is someone actually proposing there is something specifically wrong with the Gregorian calendar? Without any other Google results for "Rockchip calendar" I'm assuming it&#x27
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by plorg 11y ago
At this point I can only operate off of my memory. The Facebook ads privacy settings have changed quite a few times. For several years there was a page that, if I am remembering correctly, offered to allow you to opt-in to interest-based ad
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by plorg 11y ago
[1] should be https://www.facebook.com/me/allactivity?log_filter=search - I noticed only after I missed the edit cutoff.
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by plorg 11y ago
I listen to a lot less music now, but I am not sure of the reason. My listening technology certainly changed a lot, but I also went through a serious bout of depression around that time. I would try listening to music, but it just made more
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by plorg 11y ago
I don't know if either of these contribute to an understanding of Facebook's view of privacy, but I recently came across two pages which surprised me in some way. The first[1] is a user's search history, which allows a user t
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Facebook Advert Preferences(facebook.com)
1 points by plorg 11y ago|0 comments
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by plorg 11y ago
I probably need not explain that this is simply tautological.
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by plorg 11y ago
As the article mentions, images aren't the only problem here. I haven't allowed images in email for ages, but I'm still pretty concerned about tracking through other means. In pretty much every automatically generated email I

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