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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: 3, Interesting) by Bobs on Sunday March 06 2016, @01:23PM
I do not know if my experience is typical, but when I was working for a government aerospace contractor, it seemed like the most creative and intelligent techie types were the first to go, as the higher paid people who made the decisions of who stays and who goes seemed to feel threatened by them.
This has been my experience as well with less competent managers. Good leaders will figure out how to encourage and use the creative and intelligent, the poor ones will purge them as threats.
(Score: 1) by bitstream on Sunday March 06 2016, @01:45PM
And the market place will hopefully purge the corporations run by less than competent managers ;)
It's however quite sad how much talent that is wasted for idiotic reasons or people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 06 2016, @09:36PM
Nah, big org's always degenerate this way. Either work for a smaller org, or learn to play the game.