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Russia Today reports
The US public doesn't need a Digital Security Commission; they need the FBI to stop deceiving everyone and tell the truth that it wants to spy on Americans, John McAfee, developer of the first commercial anti-virus program told RT's Ed Schultz.
[...] "The FBI wants Apple to change their software so that it removes the check for security, so that we don't check for security anymore. Once it has that software, they can use that software on any phone. But they say they only need it for one phone."
[...] "You need a hardware engineer and a [software] engineer. The hardware engineer takes the phone apart and copies the instruction set, which are the iOS and applications, and your memory. And then you run a program called a disassembler, which takes all the ones and zeros and gives you readable instructions. Then the coder sits down and he reads through. What he is looking for is the first access to the keypad, because that is the first thing you do when you input your pad. It'll take half an hour. When you see that, then he reads the instructions for where in memory this secret code is stored. It is that trivial--a half an hour.
...The FBI knows this, Apple knows this."[...] "In either case, if they (the FBI) don't know, that is tragic; if they do know it, then they are deceiving the American public and Apple and everyone else by asking for a universal key."
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Do you see any flaws in McAffee's explanation?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 06 2016, @10:57AM
have the phone "marry" its purchaser by having its purchaser speak a key to it.
Speaking the code is not very secret. Can't do that during a meeting, etc. Plus, when you have a cold you're screwed. You'll still need a manual way of entering it ... which will be easy to break because everyone has heard you tell your phone "Siri, I'm in the mood" every time you accessed it.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday March 06 2016, @11:31AM
This is a one-time thing to make a system key. To make sure that you have just generated several kilobytes of numbers in a unique order.
My intention is even if you married your phone to a high quality MP3 player, you could not get the same key again even if you played the exact same music... because your sampling is taking place at a slightly different time resulting in completely different digitizations. Add to that all the rollovers... there is so much random noise induced by quantizing errors and phase shifting that I claim it will be impossible to recreate a duplicate of a key made this way.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]