Signaling Post-Snowden Era, New iPhone Locks Out N.S.A
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#3>“We’re using a locker that actually has a combination on it, and if you don’t know the combination, then you can’t get inside. Unless you take a sledgehammer to the locker, there’s no way we get to the files.”
~Jonathan Zdziarski, a security researcher who has taught forensics courses to law enforcement agencies on collecting data from iPhones,
These people literally think on the level of schoolyard bullies.
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#4Well dudes, you screwed it up for yourselves with illegal wiretapping, the perhaps legal but still outrageous secret court orders and the attitude you presented when all this came to light. Fuck you.
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#5>“We’re using a locker that actually has a combination on it, and if you don’t know the combination, then you can’t get inside. Unless you take a sledgehammer to the locker, there’s no way we get to the files.” ~Jonathan Zdziarski, a security researcher who has taught forensics courses to law enforcement agencies on collecting data from iPhones, These people literally think on the level of schoolyard bullies.
Are you referring to Apple who is locking investigators out of phones, or Investigators for trying to track down evidence of crimes?
"These people literally think on the level of schoolyard bullies." - That statement could go either way.
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#7A 6 letter alphanumeric password, do they think people use old laptops to generate the possible passwords?! It should be at least 128 or 256 if they're being serious about security and preferably much much longer than that.
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#8> Breaking the code, according to an Apple technical guide, could take “more than 5 1/2 years to try all combinations of a six-character alphanumeric passcode with lowercase letters and numbers.” (Computer security experts question that figure, because Apple does not fully realize how quickly the N.S.A. supercomputers can crack codes.)
Uh, what? Surely the journalist has missed an important technical detail here, right?
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#9This makes me extraordinarily happy, perhaps this is the first major step in the struggle against government spying on innocent citizens?
On another note, is anyone disturbed by how even the idea of people being able to store their private data securely being seen as inherently criminal by high level officials? What does that say about these people in power, they literally view your right to privacy as dangerous. Sickening.
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#10A 6 letter alphanumeric password, do they think people use old laptops to generate the possible passwords?! It should be at least 128 or 256 if they're being serious about security and preferably much much longer than that.
Is it possible to brute force this? Using quantum computers?