iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs

Post by Luc » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 5:01 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #201

Anderkent wrote: post #28

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Your reading is correct. But there's always going to be people complaining about word choice even if your meaning is perfectly clear and inoffensive.

That may be true but it does not cost me anything at all to change the text so that it does not offend and in that sense it is an improvement. At the same time I see HN slide towards reddit just one little bit more with all the 'you insensitive clod' comments lately and that is sad too.

Post by petra » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 5:03 PM UTC

mikeash wrote: post #166

petra wrote: post #129

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From the link: "The important distinction is of intent. In the benign explanation, a slowdown of old phones is not a specific goal, but merely a side effect of optimizing the operating system for newer hardware" When we try to judge intent we do judge the context. So let's look at the context: people do know that iPhone updates will probably slow their device(even though Apple doesn't tell them that). And there's no…

Software getting slower with updates is a fact of life. It's been an obvious and expected thing since I started being aware of computers and updates in the late 1980s and I'm sure it was a thing even before that. The odds that Apple is doing this on purpose, rather than as a standard side effect of cramming ever more features into their stuff, are so low it doesn't bear more than a moment's consideration. What's next…

Post by natch » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 5:15 PM UTC

ohthehugemanate wrote: post #109

mootothemax wrote: post #85

Damned if they do, and damned if they don't. "Anyone can access your private photos and emails! Just replace the home button with one programmed with your own fingerprints!" Can you imagine the comments if that were a story? The problem here is that Apple didn't find a way to tell repair shops and users that this could be an issue.

It doesn't have to be either or. Apple could provide a better fail over behavior for the home key, including a way for a consumer to validate the changed hardware. For instance: "IOS has detected a change in your Secure Home Key. Please contact apple secure support to confirm that your device is still secure!" add a 1-800 number and some security questions. Or automate it by requiring a login to your Apple account, e…

Post by natch » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 5:17 PM UTC

dawnerd wrote: post #194

atirip wrote: post #100

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What if that "repair" was done by NSA, CIA, etc? Should the phone boot like nothing happened? Seriously?

Hell, they could, on boot, display a message with something like "This phone contains contains a non genuine apple part" Then the question is, could the NSA/CIA/etc trick the phone into thinking the repair was valid?

Post by niccaluim » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

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Are people with myopia discriminated against in society?

Absolutely. There are jobs that discriminate against people with eyesight disabilities (some aircraft pilot jobs, for example) and there are many products that don't account for people wearing glasses. People with glasses are widely stereotyped as nerds or geeks and often experience bullying. People wearing glasses were also reportedly targeted in mass killings by the Khmer Rouge due to that same stereotype.