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Data Extraction Company Cellebrite Touts New Software for Cracking iPhones and iPads Running up to iOS 12.3
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As long as humans write software, there will be bugs. And some of those bugs will be features.
An 8 digit numeric passcode has 10^8 possibilities, not 100k.
I believe the suggestion that it was okay to use repeating numbers in a long(er) passcode was a way to overcome people’s reticence about remembering/typing something long.
At the end of the day, most security breaches take advantage not of intelligence or lack thereof; everyone knows to use a “strong password”. They exploit laziness.
Correct. It was a typo when I tried to shorten the number. Should have just written 10C8 I've corrected it. Thanks
Perhaps that was the OP's intent, but was not what it said, at least not how I interpreted it.
Very true. No one likes to have to remember a strong password.
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That isnt a need. People need the freedom to be whatever they are going to be and snooping in on conversations is a quick way to get a ton of false positives. The government is going to far with crime prevention efforts and we all know its going to be totally abused. Privacy protects everyone from unwarranted government behavior.
I hope it’s worth it to them, because the cost this tech comes at is far greater than the price tag.
Their buyers are governments, and governments don't pay too much attention to cost since the taxpayers are the ones paying for it.
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And social engineering. Most "hacks" today are done through scams and phissing where users are providing their own credentials, not actual hacking.
Every time there's a thread for cracking iOS devices, I get a good laugh. So many people think the government cares enough about them to want to get on their phone. I see similar behavior in schizophrenics. If you're not doing extraordinarily illegal activity, you could have a flip phone from 2001 and your personal data would be safe from any government.
Unless one of you was the San Bernardino shooter, no one cares. Does anyone fall into that category? Didn't think so.
You may now return to your government conspiracy theories and delusions and grandeur.
Unless one of you was the San Bernardino shooter, no one cares. Does anyone fall into that category? Didn't think so.
You may now return to your government conspiracy theories and delusions and grandeur.
I still see them being used daily, they just keep them in drawers because, Aesthetic.
Yeah they’re bulky and ugly. Only thing they really match with are those LG Ultrafine Displays haha.
Now what if it were China,Russia,Iran or North Korea doing this? Anyone reckon sanctions would have been applied? Apple most likely has a spy or mole working for them. Employees probably need better security clearances and background checks. I think it is not just China stealing tech and info from American companies. Either that or we got one amazing hacker on hand that can literally pull a bunny out of their ass when asked to do so.
Why would they need one?
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Nope. Loads of people pick series of numbers like that in lotteries. They would be a bad choice, you will end up sharing your winnings with lots of people.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...tery-numbers-20-years-katie-price-win-jackpot
You might want to find out more about iCloud end-to-end encryption. As the name “end-to-end” suggests, you’re the only one holding the encryption key, not even Apple has it. So only you have access to all your iCloud data. You said “the encryption has keys that only Apple has”, I think you got that confused with “the encryption has keys that only YOU have”.
It depends on what method they use. If it’s some sort of brute forcing the password and your password is strong enough then you’re safe. But it could be an unknown exploit which completely bypasses the password. We just don’t know.
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There are a number of apps which don’t use end to end.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Thank you for touting your ignorance. If you ever are unlucky enough to be falsely accused of a crime, I’m sure you’ll change your tune... quickly
This has everything to do with potential and what an overreaching government is able to do
"The FBI really backed off Apple and that is not like the government, unless they have negotiated something else in private."
So... since you have zero evidence, just stir up a big bowl of FUD and post some fake news?
"but after all Apple is also the best marketing company and prefers marketing over real technology,"
Apple's phones, computers, watches, etc are not real technology? Kind of hilarious coming right after the introduction of the new Mac Pro and Pro HDR display.
Apps or websites that do not support end-to-end are only that 3 listed there. I think most importantly is our iCloud backup, which is end-to-end.
Exactly! Even the most well written software with the best of intentions can have unintended errors that people can exploit.
Fair enough, but the broader question is how many people pick other combinations and how often. My point, however, was most people would not expect a sequence to show up with the same probability as a random set. 123456 may have been a bad example, I could have said 7 8 9 10 11 12; so a more interesting analysis would be out of the total number of potential numeric sequences how often does a numerical sequence get picked? How often do the current date get picked?
My main point is most people do not understand probability and thus often make irrational choices. A common example is a homework assignment to flip a coin 500 times. Most people won't do that and simply mark heads or tails but won't do a long string of heads or tails or repeat pattern because they just don't think that will happen when in fact you'd expect that in random coin tosses.
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Good points. A friend who is a prosecutor once told me he could charge anyone with conspiracy with a string evidence, even if every individual piece was innocent of any criminal intent; his point being protections are important to shield people from those who would abuse the system, even if he wouldn't.
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A software update will come out before long that will once again render that expensive hacking tool worthless. Risky business model.
If you’re in a jurisdiction which would consider that an illegal search anything they find would be inadmissible.
