Apple vs. F.B.I.
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Side with Apple
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I side with Apple. Slippery slope to allow the government through special encryption back doors.
Hey the NSA hates Linux because of privacy so that's a good enough reason for me to use it.
The NSA asked Torvalds to do the same thing they want apple to do - add a super secret back door that only the government can get through. Torvalds said "no" of course, but it doesn't work as well with Linux being licensed under the GPL and completely open source. If they added a super secret back door literally everybody would be able to see how it works.
SELinux has been largely backed by the NSA, but for other reasons. Linux is secure by design (userspace is loosely coupled to the kernel space, open source) - the NSA doesn't like that.
I side with Apple. Slippery slope to allow the government through special encryption back doors.
The NSA asked Torvalds to do the same thing they want apple to do - add a super secret back door that only the government can get through. Torvalds said "no" of course, but it doesn't work as well with Linux being licensed under the GPL and completely open source. If they added a super secret back door literally everybody would be able to see how it works.
SELinux has been largely backed by the NSA, but for other reasons. Linux is secure by design (userspace is loosely coupled to the kernel space, open source) - the NSA doesn't like that.
Torvalds denies that and says it was a joke that was misinterpreted
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I side with Apple. Slippery slope to allow the government through special encryption back doors.
The NSA asked Torvalds to do the same thing they want apple to do - add a super secret back door that only the government can get through. Torvalds said "no" of course, but it doesn't work as well with Linux being licensed under the GPL and completely open source. If they added a super secret back door literally everybody would be able to see how it works.
SELinux has been largely backed by the NSA, but for other reasons. Linux is secure by design (userspace is loosely coupled to the kernel space, open source) - the NSA doesn't like that.
Torvalds denies that and says it was a joke that was misinterpreted
Torvalds denies that and says it was a joke that was misinterpreted
You need a little more tin foil hat. It's probably been tried, but fails for the obvious reasons of open source and principle.
A couple sneaky things have slipped through the cracks before (like setting UID=0, which is the uid of root). Most code that gets into mainstream linux is reviewed, criticized by 5, 10, 15 people. CC'd to everybody's relevant email, then merged in by Linus after all that and is always available for the world to see - so it can't happen with Linux like it can with Windows.
My last job I had a boss who always used to rip on open source software. I told him we need to dispel with this fiction once and for all that open source software is less secure, open source software is more secure.
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I'm a FOSS guy but I don't mind using some proprietary software if it's useful to me.
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So these pricks at the FBI hacked it without Apple's help. What a surprise, trying to get some proprietary software they didn't even need.
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So these pricks at the FBI hacked it without Apple's help. What a surprise, trying to get some proprietary software they didn't even need.
So these pricks at the FBI hacked it without Apple's help. What a surprise, trying to get some proprietary software they didn't even need.
Maybe they did get Apple's help but they got it on the DL to avoid the bad publicity.
Apparently they got help from an "unidentified third party" - maybe somebody with connections to Apple.
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I don't think apple had to do with it after all that. Maybe they took john McAfee up on his offer.
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The gov will eventually start off on a program to crack
the Apple security on it's own, since Apple won't help them on this ONE PHONE, USED BY DEAD TERRORIST
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I hope they can still stop an impending attack before it's too late. Seems that
Apple's pseudo-principle backfired, like I was talking about.
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The gov will eventually start off on a program to crack
the Apple security on it's own, since Apple won't help them on this ONE PHONE, USED BY DEAD TERRORIST
*****************************************************
I hope they can still stop an impending attack before it's too late. Seems that
Apple's pseudo-principle backfired, like I was talking about.
The gov will eventually start off on a program to crack
the Apple security on it's own, since Apple won't help them on this ONE PHONE, USED BY DEAD TERRORIST
*****************************************************
I hope they can still stop an impending attack before it's too late. Seems that
Apple's pseudo-principle backfired, like I was talking about.
Not at all. Apple stuck to their guns. The feds were always going to crack that phone, it was just a matter of time.
Nobody's blood will be on Apple's hands and as we all know, any tool like that even used correctly always finds its way into the wrong hands.
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Apple should still be prosecuted for hindering a terror investigation.
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It'd be really funny if they just tried 1234
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