FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone

Post by tn13 » Fri, Apr 22, 2016, 7:27 PM UTC

cpncrunch wrote: post #133

x1798DE wrote: post #130

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14 deaths out of 300 million people is close enough to zero that it's not worth thinking about.

Yes, I completely agree that terrorism is something that people shouldn't worry about. However that doesn't mean you shouldn't investigate the murders, just like you would any other murder. You appear to be saying that 14 murders is something that shouldn't be investigated properly.

Post by vectored » Fri, Apr 22, 2016, 9:22 PM UTC

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hardwaresofton wrote: post #84

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Along what dimension is this "not scalable"? If you have 100 iPhoneCs and the exploit works on all of them, it sounds like it's very scalable to me. It doesn't scale across every iphone ever made (or that will be made), but honestly, with a few tweaks (maybe a forced OS downgrade, whatever), it could be made to be. Also, if you don't release the attack vector, things get even murkier. Plus, the government happens to…

I think he meant "scalable" in terms of the amount of money, time and effort it will take to overcome each subsequent security obstacle faced by law enforcement. In that sense, this whole Apple-FBI fiasco was certainly not scalable. Also, money is a very real limiting factor. The government can't just print more money to solve its problems.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 12:45 AM UTC

tn13 wrote: post #200

cpncrunch wrote: post #99

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I'm not entirely sure how you can call 14 deaths "non-existent".

14 deaths for 300 million is non existent if you understand statistics. More people commit suicide each year and even more people die each year because FDA takes too long to approve new medicines.