And as a bonus, if you onsell it, we'll wipe your Google account without warning.
Pixel Security
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Re: Pixel Security
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good, now whenever I need tech support, all I need to do is get my gripes published in a global news site and trend on Hacker News so I can get Google to respond to me...
And this is exactly why I am currently migrating to fastmail...
I got my Fastmail account set up yesterday. Then paid for the first month so as to have that done when the trial ends. Super impressed with the setup. Now just got to start moving things across..
Re: Pixel Security
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://www.slashgear.com/pixel-phone-flipping-scheme-googles... Looks like Google is reinstating accounts.
Good, now whenever I need tech support, all I need to do is get my gripes published in a global news site and trend on Hacker News so I can get Google to respond to me...
Yep, pretty much. It feels like they've gone intrinsically hostile, compared to their old "do no evil" ethos.
Re: Pixel Security
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used the term 'motivate' specifically because of the PR language intending for customers to evaluate the Apple product as something that could be used by those who need to use their phone for private and/or sensitive reasons. Apple of course backdoors their phones for government surveillance access. But they do motivate a threat model that includes government surveillance. I know parsing my comment in this way may…
> Apple of course backdoors their phones for government surveillance access. Nice job slipping a completely unfounded lie into your response. Starting with iOS 10, you can actually just mount the root filesystem disk image from iOS restore images. You are able to reverse engineer and audit any application or daemon that the OS runs. You can use open source tools (Such as idevicerestore) to perform an OS restore on yo…
Chronic: but the bootloader of the device is still encrypted and not subject to your audit (well, maybe you can audit it, but most people can't ;P), which totally undermines the chain of trust you just laid out...
Re: Pixel Security
#115I would really love to see Google tackle fixing the security problems presented by the radio chip. A closed source esoteric firmware full of vulnerabilities that has DMA on your primary CPU and is remotely exploitable by state and private actors? Not to mention that it's an entry point into a device that's always on your person, has all of your contacts, emails, text messages, and phone calls, and has a GPS module in…
I have been told that the baseband stack is so large and complicated (and of course buggy) that has to run in a virtual environment.
Re: Pixel Security
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you ever tried to get something Apple branded repaired when it is out of warranty? The repairs tend to basically cost as much as it would to buy the same item refurbished regardless of the issue. SSD died on your MacBook air selling for $500 on eBay? That will be a $450 repair sir. Sure, they may have manuals and everything else at the Apple store, but there is very clearly a reason why companies like iCracked a…
So this happened to me. My 2012 retina MacBook Pro battery was dying. Which makes sense, I used it every day for over four years. I figured I could take it to Apple for a battery replacement. They said they would do it — for $900. They told me it involved replacing the entire bottom half of the computer as the battery was glued in. So I called their support line and complained that the laptop was perfectly fine and i…
> $900. They told me it involved replacing the entire bottom half of the computer as the battery was glued in.
WTF? This is nonsense.
Apple prices for battery repairs are clearly outlined on their web site[0]. This has always been what I (or relatives/friends/coworkers) paid for France[1] when I had to change a battery.
[0]: https://support.apple.com/mac-notebooks/repair/service/prici...
[1]: https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/mac-notebooks/repair/service...
Re: Pixel Security
#117While all devices have security issues, not too comforted by this: http://thehackernews.com/2016/11/google-pixel-phone-hacked.h...
Wait, so you mean security issues were found in a security conference where google pays top dollar to researchers who find security issues so Google can fix them ASAP?
Why is that a bad thing?
Re: Pixel Security
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's quite common. HTC even advertise it as something you can do for free: http://www.htc.com/us/uh-oh-protection/
Only if you buy that one phone from them on their website. You could not get that phone second hand (or from any other reseller) and send it in to them for repair. That's basically "insurance" included in the price of the phone, not a "pay for what you broke" repair center.
They've had that program for prior phones of theirs, that were not directly bought through them.
Source: I first heard about this program from my reseller-purchased HTC One m8.
Re: Pixel Security
#119I have not seen so many gotos in many many years. I guess it's the programming model in this case. I am sure this bit of code is going to be audited quite closely.
This is the preferred style for error handling in the Linux kernel.
I assume these guys know a thing or two about programming, so who am I to question it?
Re: Pixel Security
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you ever tried to get something Apple branded repaired when it is out of warranty? The repairs tend to basically cost as much as it would to buy the same item refurbished regardless of the issue. SSD died on your MacBook air selling for $500 on eBay? That will be a $450 repair sir. Sure, they may have manuals and everything else at the Apple store, but there is very clearly a reason why companies like iCracked a…
Yes. 4+ year old iMac with dead video card. I took it to the local authorized Apple dealer, who wanted $50 to diagnose the problem. Dealer called back and said Apple agreed to replace the video card for free and cover the $50 dealer diagnosis fee.
That sounds like a recall.
I had the same thing on an older MacBook Pro with dodgy graphics card. Took it in to an authorised dealer, who didn't charge me up front for diagnosis, to then get a call saying it had been replaced and no fee was due as covered by Apple under a previous recall. This was in the US.