Apple only gives you space for a 4 digit password. How do you put in 10 digits?
Sent from my iPhone > 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/>
