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> After he evaluated the Time Capsule's contents, Bryant notified Apple about his findings, and the company's London security office eventually asked him to ship the Time Capsule back. > Bryant again reported his findings to Apple and returned the Mac Mini to them. Why the hell did he do that?! It's, like, the worst thing one can possibly do with these kinds of devices. Just publish stuff that doesn't have anyone's p…
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I don't understand. Why aren't these devices using full disk encryption?
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Seconded, there's no tangible nor financial benefit to him for releasing the information to the world. Also: how would publishing the data "make the world a better place"? At the same time it'll incur a non trivial amount of reputational and professional risk.
> Also: how would publishing the data "make the world a better place"? For example, schematics of Apple devices would help people fix them on a deeper level than Apple wants (Apple doesn't do board-level repair, one 3-cent component fails and you're getting your entire motherboard replaced). Diagnostic software would help with that too. Documentation about any artificial limitations Apple imposes on these devices for…
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Morals towards faceless corporations that would do anything and everything to keep their profits growing indefinitely? No, I don't realize why anyone would have those.
That's a plainly depraved attitude. I worked several years within Apple in one core engineering roll, in a sizeable team, and being ethical and moral was a _huge_ part of the engineering culture (at least), both when Steve Jobs was there and after.
I've seen everything from Amazon's palm-scanners to a tactical LTE base station once used by NIST to all sorts of Zebras full of fun software.
Would you be willing to publish the iOS OCR server you made? It would be greatly useful in some of my products, as as you’ve noted other options have either low-quality results (tesseract, some cloud-based solutions) or are expensive in comparison for large amounts of images (most cloud-based solutions). That and it’d allow some of us to put our old phones to use.
Here's something i've used a few times. It's not using the phone, but rather a mac mini that's sitting in the corner. Quickly made this repo -- mind the mess. https://github.com/mr-boffin/fruit-native-ocr
> After he evaluated the Time Capsule's contents, Bryant notified Apple about his findings, and the company's London security office eventually asked him to ship the Time Capsule back. > Bryant again reported his findings to Apple and returned the Mac Mini to them. Why the hell did he do that?! It's, like, the worst thing one can possibly do with these kinds of devices. Just publish stuff that doesn't have anyone's p…
We all know companies are predatory, and in many cases companies (looking right at you Google and Microsoft) continue to refuse to pay people for discovering, documenting and reporting high-severity vulnerabilities. That doesn't mean we as individuals forfeit our principles and become just as corrupt as the "faceless corporate entities."
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That's a plainly depraved attitude. I worked several years within Apple in one core engineering roll, in a sizeable team, and being ethical and moral was a _huge_ part of the engineering culture (at least), both when Steve Jobs was there and after.
Engineering culture maybe. But I take issue with the management and its goals. As a long time an app developer (mostly Android, but I've seen my iOS coworkers deal with Apple, and I released one somewhat popular Mac app while refusing to get a developer account), I find it very disrespectful how Apple tries its best to forcibly insert itself between the users and the developers and then acts like they totally played…
But I don't think it supports acting immorally, just because Apple's involved. I would have shipped back the machine to them as well.
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Here's something i've used a few times. It's not using the phone, but rather a mac mini that's sitting in the corner. Quickly made this repo -- mind the mess. https://github.com/mr-boffin/fruit-native-ocr
I’m afraid neither user or the repo exist on github - perhaps did you typo?