Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
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Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
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Re: Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
#2I think this move shows that Apple is serious about security. They previously assessed the risk of a government ordered backdoor low and the potential for bugs in the Secure Enclave higher, and hence made the trade off the allow signed updates.
Re: Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
#3I can understand how people want to put puzzle pieces together, but this is completely idiotic.
Whatever remaining security holes there are with secure enclave, they have nothing to do with a software chat app.
This is entirely coincidental and has nothing to do with anything.
TechCrunch should be ashamed of itself (again) for being such a douchebag.
Edit: I'm not saying Apple hiring the guy is stupid. I'm responding to the hattery from the article itself.
As a hire, it makes sense. But trying to decide that it means "Apple is now serious about security" is just a bunch of horseshit on both ends.
Re: Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
#4This news is another +1 for Apple in my view.
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#5I'm starting to think Apple has found its first viable post-Jobs narrative.
Re: Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
#6I can understand how people want to put puzzle pieces together, but this is completely idiotic. Whatever remaining security holes there are with secure enclave, they have nothing to do with a software chat app. This is entirely coincidental and has nothing to do with anything. TechCrunch should be ashamed of itself (again) for being such a douchebag. Edit: I'm not saying Apple hiring the guy is stupid. I'm responding…
No, but this is very likely to be them tightening up other parts of their software stack.
Re: Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
#7I can understand how people want to put puzzle pieces together, but this is completely idiotic. Whatever remaining security holes there are with secure enclave, they have nothing to do with a software chat app. This is entirely coincidental and has nothing to do with anything. TechCrunch should be ashamed of itself (again) for being such a douchebag. Edit: I'm not saying Apple hiring the guy is stupid. I'm responding…
There are probably not many tech companies who would turn down an internship applicant with this guy's résumé. So, yes, no puzzle to be pieced together here.
Re: Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
#8I can understand how people want to put puzzle pieces together, but this is completely idiotic. Whatever remaining security holes there are with secure enclave, they have nothing to do with a software chat app. This is entirely coincidental and has nothing to do with anything. TechCrunch should be ashamed of itself (again) for being such a douchebag. Edit: I'm not saying Apple hiring the guy is stupid. I'm responding…
It's not idiotic, it's interesting news given the climate. They didn't say what his role or project will be. What's wrong with reporting on Apple hiring a developer of one of the most popular secure messaging tools?
Re: Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
#9Conjecture: Isn't Apple's private signing key already a "master key to turn 100 million locks"?
I.e. the key they use to sign software updates. With that key, someone could create malware and sign it... Apple creating the malware just saves them a step. Ergo the "target on that piece" is already pretty high value, yet Apple is able to keep it secret / prepared for contingencies (like rotating the key..)
Thoughts?
Re: Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
#10The CoreOS (https://coreos.com/) security team, or just the core OS security team? If the former, I'm curious what Apple's involvement with that project is.