willstrafach

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by willstrafach 10y ago
I am amazed that many still assume CC companies eat fraud charges. That is not the case, they always yank it from the merchant where the money was spent. cited as a so-called cost of doing business if you ask around.
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by willstrafach 10y ago
have you actually went and send these alleged run down buildings? no clue where you were looking, but your comment is not true.
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by willstrafach 10y ago
not really, prices are based on market demand. the market does not care about fraud issues and such. whatever the theoretical rise in price would be (due to the fraud), don't you think the merchant would price things at that level in t
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by willstrafach 10y ago
how so? when a card is fraudulently used to make purchases, AmEx is not refunding you from their own pockets. they take back the money from the merchant it was fraudulently spent with (a chargeback). no loss at all on their side.
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by willstrafach 10y ago
That is not how TSS is set up though. "Special" restores are heavily audited so many would be aware that it occurred. who knows how easy it would be to keep that contained. Further, if people are paranoid of this, a crowdsource ba
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by willstrafach 10y ago
No they do not. The device will not install a firmware if the restore is not signed by Apple's private key.
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Test the security of your apps with Verify.ly(techcrunch.com)
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Verify.ly: The “warning label” for apps(verify.ly)
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by willstrafach 10y ago
Again, there is zero use in an iOS device being carried in DFU mode. All that will do is waste battery, because the single function of DFU mode is to wait for the USB interrupt started by a computer sending a Apple-signed bootloader to use
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by willstrafach 10y ago
I am curious where your thoughts on DFU come from. I am very familiar with it as it was the bootrom-level recovery mode my team utilized when we worked on jailbreak tools that exploited SecureROM. DFU has a single purpose: wait for an Apple
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by willstrafach 10y ago
This advice does not make much sense, DFU Mode is for performing a full restore on a device. It is not a way you'd just carry a device around, I believe it actually reboots after a certain amount of time. At that point just walking aro
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by willstrafach 10y ago
this is cool stuff, we are doing similar things at beta.verify.ly (although more of a security focus rather than BI) how much fun did you have figuring out generation of kbsync and the crazy iTunes otp / auth tokens? :)
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by willstrafach 10y ago
not true. 64-bit kernel was previously not possible to examine. additionally: we now know what Watchtower looks like, something that was previously a mystery and even incorrectly thought to be something that ran on SEP instead of the AP.