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savoytruffle
11y ago
The phone in question is an iPhone 5c that doesn't have a fingerprint sensor. Also even if it did, simply rebooting the device will require a complex passcode instead of a stored fingerprint.
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11y ago
Yes. In the court order section 5 (on line 8 of page 3) "Apple shall advise the government of the reasonable cost of providing this service." Perhaps only engineering resources. (it's always gonna be a big legal hassle)
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11y ago
None of the local passwords within passwords are known to Apple. They say. The FBI is hoping they do know something secret. In most cases it would be easier to subpoena online accounts, but of course Apple says iMessage is also unreadable f
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11y ago
It would be a very long and involved case, anyway.
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11y ago
I only recently got a touchID iPhone so I'm still having fun with it. But I did my right thumb, index, and middle finger, and left thumb and index. If under police duress I keep trying to unlock a phone with my pinkie finger I think th
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11y ago
Recall the 1st generation Apple TV (announced in autumn 2006 and sold until 2010) was actually using a version of Mac OS X on an Intel CPU.
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11y ago
Taller vertical stabilizer too, to compensate for the shorter axis between it and the wings (moment arm).
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12y ago
My activist, iPhone-using friend in Hong Kong had not heard of this yet, as of right now (like 11:30AM Hong Kong time)
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12y ago
The AppleTV, which is not marketed as having any internal storage at all, has the same (meager) 8GB of storage as the now free-with-contract iPhone 5C.
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12y ago
It doesn't seem that surprising to me that Air Force One has encrypted VOIP phones. But it is always useful to see new info. It is surprising that they are relatively new.
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12y ago
I'm sure the USSS will be very interested in this whole thread but what are they gonna do?
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13y ago
Snow Leopard was the first cheap version because it had "No New Features". It was $29 for a DVD. Leopard was the last one to cost $129 in 2007.
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13y ago
Where were you back in 1987?
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13y ago
That's basically how AirDrop works on recent Macs and recent iOS devices and why they require more recent wifi hardware to make it happen than the OS supports generally.
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15y ago
I think it's because most recent google projects have been launched into a doubtful world and quickly abandoned.
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15y ago
He looks like he can get away with it.
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15y ago
ALAC is used in AirPlay streaming (it was first announced along with the AirPort Express in mid 2004). This might be a plan to make AirPlay audio streaming more ubiquitous.
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15y ago
Of course in the days of the Sad Mac, that was only upon a failed boot. When it crashed it showed a cartoony round bomb with a lit fuse on the end. Made people mad!