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Probably when the NSA stops illegally spying on the citizens it is supposed to serve.
We take for gospel that the NSA is spying on everyone in the world via every hardware device that has been created in the USA because of a few powerpoint slides. Interesting.
Clapper's testimony to congress?
I visualize this: husband is sleeping deeply, wife picks up the phone and taps the home button while he's sleeping and unlocks the phone. Release the kraken.
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Urgh. When do we get to the point where I can read HN without a snarky NSA comment being voted to the top?
Probably when the NSA stops illegally spying on the citizens it is supposed to serve.
For those who want to believe it, I doubt there is any amount of information that could ever be released to convince them that the NSA isn't spying on people anymore.
Two biggest new things for developers: * OpenGL ES 3.0 support (things like true HDR rendering, etc. will finally be possible) * 64-bit support. For most app developers, this will just be a recompile. The tricky part is that any closed-source 3rd party SDKs/libraries/frameworks used will also have to be rebuilt first by their authors.
More importantly, what are they talking about when they say 64-bit? The architecture uses 64-bit addresses? The processor uses 64-bit registers? What are the main advantages to current CPUs?
Note that the 32->64 bit register and address size increase is by far not the only difference between 32-bit ARM and 64-bit ARM. Aarchv8 (64-bit arm) is effectively a complete clean redesign of the ISA, designed to be modern, fast, and only maintain some backwards compatibility, discarding many signature features of ARM that no longer make sense. Such as predication of everything and free shifts in every instruction.
64-bit ARM should be significantly faster, at least once the compilers catch up.
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I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here, but if in fact the NSA required copies of all fingerprints, I doubt Apple would be allowed to publicize it.
But would they still go about implementing it? I mean, it sounds crazy from a business perspective.
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there's airdrop instead of nfc
And Bluetooth 4.0 (low energy). I doubt Apple will ever do NFC.
I'm still betting it will show up in the iWatch, though.
There is just so much NFC-enabled Point-Of-Sale hardware already out there.
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Serious question -- what is the big deal if someone gets your fingerprints? I can't think of the last time my fingerprint was used as some infallible method of identification, if ever. If the spooks want it, they already have it. I'd rather someone get their hands on my fingerprint than my passport, driver's license, and credit cards, and it seems much more difficult to steal than those things. I think the fingerprin…
The problem is that I can't change my fingerprint. If it gets out by some third-party abusing the secret backdoor (or just abusing whatever other place you have your fingerprint stored), then they can potentially forge your fingerprint when committing a crime or when otherwise attempting to access resources you have access to. When a third-party loses your password, you change it and life goes on (you are not reusing…
What does that even mean? You wear gloves in public all the time? You wipe down everything you touch?
Which makes me wonder, aren't one's finger prints all over your iPhone exterior anyway. If someone steals one's phone wouldn't it be easier to dust it for prints than crack the security on the digital copy?
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I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here, but if in fact the NSA required copies of all fingerprints, I doubt Apple would be allowed to publicize it.
But would they still go about implementing it? I mean, it sounds crazy from a business perspective.
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They probably already have your fingerprint. I believe you usually have to give it to the DMV to get your license.
In the country where I live (Switzerland), getting a drivers license thankfully does not involve somebody taking your fingerprint. Also, public transportation here rules to such an extent that not even having a drivers license is a perfectly valid option. I don't have one for example. My passport also is one of the last ones you could get without it containing any biometric data. As such, I'm reasonably sure that no…
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Don't you think this would be a huge scandal, if it was revealed? Considering they specifically say it is not uploaded? Just saying. Why would they take such a risk?
The entire NSA thing to date is a huge scandal, and yet no one (outside of the tech community) seems to really care... Not many people are closing their accounts associated with NSA complicit companies.
Delete your fb, g+ and twitter accounts. There will be a social price to pay, but it's still not too great for a significant amount of people. For many, though, even that is costly.
Get rid of your Nokia, Apple or Android phones. Suddenly, harsh. Still possible, because there's some alternatives, but if you want to avoid US and Chinese companies (srsly, Chinese), your options are limited and not well-known.
And, you've done both. Um, most SSL implementations. Your bank account. You'd have to go cash only.
Seriously, there isn't much we can do in any immediate way. Just vote the right way, and talk to people. Less glorious than pointlessly sacrificing yourself, sure, but actually works.