According to statements made by Apple, devices running iOS 8 prevent Apple from extracting your private information (citation below). This unfortunately is not true is much as we'd like it to be.
The program that controls your passcode from being viewable by Apple is no different than the program that allows you to browse Internet pages. It can be updated. The program inside iOS 8 that does updates has root (administrative power). That means it can modify, replace, delete ANY software on your device. A simple request by the party that wants the information on your phone would simple replace the existing program that make the key inaccessible with a code that makes it accessible.
The recent claims of the FBI saying this is travesty seems to be either buffoons that don't understand their technology or a charade creating a sense of false security.
As far as Apple goes, this is a total embarassment to programmers who see right through your false claims of security.
Apple will see their sells decline to goverments by propagating a false sense of security, instead of making the phones truley resistant against privacy attacks.
The true solution lies in a second motherboard added to the device that boots a tiny read only os live that runs only the app meant to communicate with the internet. A standalone packet encryption card would take the data and send it to a network card. A preshared key would ensure no middle man attacks. The separated security motherboard stops all sniffing from the main motherboard. No other apps loaded in the mini live os give it the running app a true hardware sandbox, not just a vunerable software one. The live os would need international security audits, meaning if multiple goverments use it, then your have the highest level of security. If only the American gov uses it, it's not. The live os could firewall all connections an app trys to make to the internet, asking for permission first, stopping malicious apps from leaking from peer to peer encrypted communication. Banking would finally become safe online. Anyway, Apple is far from protecting their users.
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...12af58-3ed2-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html
The program that controls your passcode from being viewable by Apple is no different than the program that allows you to browse Internet pages. It can be updated. The program inside iOS 8 that does updates has root (administrative power). That means it can modify, replace, delete ANY software on your device. A simple request by the party that wants the information on your phone would simple replace the existing program that make the key inaccessible with a code that makes it accessible.
The recent claims of the FBI saying this is travesty seems to be either buffoons that don't understand their technology or a charade creating a sense of false security.
As far as Apple goes, this is a total embarassment to programmers who see right through your false claims of security.
Apple will see their sells decline to goverments by propagating a false sense of security, instead of making the phones truley resistant against privacy attacks.
The true solution lies in a second motherboard added to the device that boots a tiny read only os live that runs only the app meant to communicate with the internet. A standalone packet encryption card would take the data and send it to a network card. A preshared key would ensure no middle man attacks. The separated security motherboard stops all sniffing from the main motherboard. No other apps loaded in the mini live os give it the running app a true hardware sandbox, not just a vunerable software one. The live os would need international security audits, meaning if multiple goverments use it, then your have the highest level of security. If only the American gov uses it, it's not. The live os could firewall all connections an app trys to make to the internet, asking for permission first, stopping malicious apps from leaking from peer to peer encrypted communication. Banking would finally become safe online. Anyway, Apple is far from protecting their users.
“Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data,” Apple said on its Web site. “So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8.”
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...12af58-3ed2-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html
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