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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, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 06 2016, @05:24PM
First this....
Then...
I should stop there since you apparently think the digital key is stored in the magical fairy dust apple dusts under the touchscreen.
However this seems naive and highly speculative about the intentions and capabilities of the FBI
This entire discussion is stupid security theater (I have no proof, that is my opinion). The face is that securing your device with a 4 digit pin is token security. There is always a way to get engineer a work-around, as evidenced by the device deleting the keys after 10 attempts. With the correct equipment and reverse engineering you can hack the hardware and then trivially hack the 4 digit pin, as many many comments on this site and elsewhere have pointed out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 07 2016, @01:17AM
I should stop there since you apparently think the digital key is stored in the magical fairy dust apple dusts under the touchscreen.
The pin code isn't stored there. It's stored in a secure chip off the main CPU. This is covered in their security specification. The only way to get at the pincode without brute forcing it would be to peel off layers of silicon and hope that you don't destroy the keys in that chip in the process. You are legitimately a moron.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 07 2016, @01:21AM
First this....
it's not called "instruction set".
Confirmed retarded. An instruction set is the set of instruction opcodes that a processor accepts. It is not the actual set of software for the device. By your logic "digits" and operations are algorithms. No, algorithms are made of many digits and operations but digits and operations themselves are not Algorithms. Algorithms are to software what digits and symbols are to an instruction set.