In a secret location in Paris, Apple has hired an elite team of laser-wielding hackers to try and crack its iPhones. Andrew Griffin gets an inside look
Using a vast array of technology including lasers are finely tuned sensors, they are trying to find gaps in their security and patch them up before they even arrive in the world.
The actual chip doing the encryption can show signs of what it is doing: while processors might seem like abstract electronics, they throw out all sorts of heats and signals that could be useful to an attacker.
But they are up against highly compensated hackers: in recent years, there has grown up to be an advanced set of companies offering cyber weapons to the highest bidder, primarily for use against people working to better the world: human rights activists, journalists, diplomats.
But recent years have also seen it locked in an escalating battle: Lockdown Mode might have been a breakthrough of which it is proud, but it was only needed because of an unfortunate campaign to break into people’s phones.
It is not the kind of difficulty that comes even with other security work; those stealing passwords or scamming people out of money don’t have lobbyists and government power.
The kind of highly targeted, advanced attacks that Lockdown Mode and other features guard against however are costly and complicated, meaning they will often be done by governments that could cause difficulties for Apple and other technology companies.
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Downvote me if you must but what if Apple accidentally became the Privacy community’s greatest ally? I know it can’t happen bc they’ll always keep a back door for their data mining
How does a multimillion dollar company beat a trillion dollar company ath their own security game? Also stop suing Corellium is a good start, don’t sue when you get caught lying, do better.
The pragmatic approach used for comparing Android and iOS helps to understand that Android is more susceptible to security breaches and malware attacks.
Across all studied apps, our study highlights widespread potential violations of US, EU and UK privacy law, including 1) the use of third-party tracking without user consent, 2) the lack of parental consent before sharing personally identifiable information (PII) with third-parties in children’s apps, 3) the non-data-minimising configuration of tracking libraries, 4) the sending of personal data to countries without an adequate level of data protection, and 5) the continued absence of transparency around tracking, partly due to design decisions by Apple and Google. Overall, we find that neither platform is clearly better than the other for privacy across the dimensions we studied.
-doesn’t agree with/like what somebody else says: immediately jump to insults.
Come on. Let’s not insult people because we don’t like what they say. We can do better. We should do better. If people just got along with others who are different or have different interests, the whole world would be a better place.
Genuinely, I am asking you to reevaluate how you respond, and maybe just try to be a little nicer to others. It costs nothing and makes the world a little bit better every time.
Hell, if they legitimately stopped their data collection, that would be enough to tip me into iOS until a truly good linux phone in my price range happens.
Wow OK, well that doesn’t have any value then. It’s best not to spread rumours since eich behaviour it can easily spread to other, more important, issues in society.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Using a vast array of technology including lasers are finely tuned sensors, they are trying to find gaps in their security and patch them up before they even arrive in the world.
The actual chip doing the encryption can show signs of what it is doing: while processors might seem like abstract electronics, they throw out all sorts of heats and signals that could be useful to an attacker.
But they are up against highly compensated hackers: in recent years, there has grown up to be an advanced set of companies offering cyber weapons to the highest bidder, primarily for use against people working to better the world: human rights activists, journalists, diplomats.
But recent years have also seen it locked in an escalating battle: Lockdown Mode might have been a breakthrough of which it is proud, but it was only needed because of an unfortunate campaign to break into people’s phones.
It is not the kind of difficulty that comes even with other security work; those stealing passwords or scamming people out of money don’t have lobbyists and government power.
The kind of highly targeted, advanced attacks that Lockdown Mode and other features guard against however are costly and complicated, meaning they will often be done by governments that could cause difficulties for Apple and other technology companies.
The original article contains 2,167 words, the summary contains 219 words. Saved 90%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Downvote me if you must but what if Apple accidentally became the Privacy community’s greatest ally? I know it can’t happen bc they’ll always keep a back door for their data mining
A back door is not what apple uses to collect data, that’s very very different from sending analytics.
Apple already outperforms google by 3x in terms of privacy points collected.
Wanna talk about backdoors? Check out the exploit list for android phones compared to iPhones. Nuff said.
How does a multimillion dollar company beat a trillion dollar company ath their own security game? Also stop suing Corellium is a good start, don’t sue when you get caught lying, do better.
Idk but there’s plenty of other android os that are more secure than what google puts out. And they make substantially less.
Google hasn’t been the same since the switch regarding “evil” and “ethics”.
Anyone can see that.
Can you post some reliable evidence or are you talking out of your ass, now you’re just looking like an angry iBoy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1574013721000125
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13722
You had to call me a 3rd grade name just to feel like you won.
Pretty sad.
Like i care, strong comeback though
Pretty obvious you do.
-doesn’t agree with/like what somebody else says: immediately jump to insults.
Come on. Let’s not insult people because we don’t like what they say. We can do better. We should do better. If people just got along with others who are different or have different interests, the whole world would be a better place.
Genuinely, I am asking you to reevaluate how you respond, and maybe just try to be a little nicer to others. It costs nothing and makes the world a little bit better every time.
Hell, if they legitimately stopped their data collection, that would be enough to tip me into iOS until a truly good linux phone in my price range happens.
I’m curious, do you have a source for them having a backdoor and mining data?
Pure speculation based on things I saw in the news over the years
Wow OK, well that doesn’t have any value then. It’s best not to spread rumours since eich behaviour it can easily spread to other, more important, issues in society.