Thanks Lee, your are always so good to help those of us less capable… I have a bronze bust of you in my office that I rub each morning for good luck through the day..
Google did jump on board but so far none of the others you mentioned….are they afraid of Big Brother? To support Apple those that are inclined should at least to to: www.apple.com/feedback Leave a strong message for Apple that you DO NOT want them to give up the fight, resist to the Supreme Court if that is where this will go…and I think they would win this one… We should also contact Microsoft and the others Lee mentions, leaving them messages to support Tim Cook in his fight against encroachment of our private information. John > On Feb 18, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 02/17/2016 05:39 PM, John Robinson wrote: >> If this is so then why all the fuss? > > Let's get a little technical about what the FBI wants. > > They want to look at the private information on an iPhone 5c found in > possession of a dead terrorist. Their plan is to randomly try passwords until > they get lucky. The problem is iOS does several things to make this > difficult. First, iOS puts in an escalating delay after every incorrect > guess, making it harder to make lots of guesses as time passes. Second, there > is a security setting that can be made to brick the phone after ten incorrect > guesses; this may not be turned on, but nobody knows, unless the phone can be > cracked. > > The FBI wants Apple to write a special version of iOS containing none of > these security features. Only Apple can write such an operating system > because it must be signed by Apple's secret keys in order to be installed. > > After they get the new operating system installed, they still have to guess > the correct password. If the terrorist used a numeric 4-character password, > which many people do, it would take only a few seconds to discover the > password because there are only 10,000 possibilities. But, if the terrorist > were only a little bit paranoid and used a random alphanumeric password of > ten characters or more, there are at least 839,299,365,868,340,224 (= 64^10) > possibilities. At 1000 guesses per second, it might take a million years to > stumble on the password. > > By the way, such a hacked iOS would apparently not be possible with 6-series > phones because Apple has built a "security enclave" into the A8 chip that > powers them. The 5c has an A7. > > There's no doubt the FBI knows all this. They've been wanting the ability to > read all our stuff for a long time, and they've carefully chosen this case to > make an example of Apple. Their whole legal argument is based on an obscure > law from 1787 and they're using this "crisis" to prod Congress into passing > the law they really want. > > If Apple caves in here, then they'll have to do the same for any other > government that requests the same custom version of iOS. > > This is a crisis that affects the whole computer industry. Where are Google, > Microsoft, Samsung, Oracle and all the other tech giants? I don't hear much > from them. > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
