Oh yeah, Apple wouldn't open the San Bernardino terrorist's phone.
Why Apple Says It Won't Help Unlock That iPhone, In 5 Key Quotes : The Two-Way : NPR
Apple opposes order to help FBI unlock phone belonging to San Bernardino shooter - LA Times
I can tell you who won't be.
Oh yeah, Apple wouldn't open the San Bernardino terrorist's phone.
Why Apple Says It Won't Help Unlock That iPhone, In 5 Key Quotes : The Two-Way : NPR
Apple opposes order to help FBI unlock phone belonging to San Bernardino shooter - LA Times
But what if they were pressured by the feds to do this? Culpable deniability at its finest; Say you wont compromise privacy, then turn around and make it so at least by default, (if not the only option) so that .gov gets what they want, and you can claim you did nothing wrong. It is either incredibly sly, or extremely short sighted given that court ruling. In the latter, I could see it being the equivalent of some teens broadcasting illegal acts on youtube; a "hey y'all, watch this!" followed by "Dayum, we probably shouldnt have done that. We werent thinking the police might see us doing this. Now we are busted." In both cases, they were blinded by the cool factor without thinking about the repercussions.
And if the feds can simply hold the device up to their face, they are in. Apple doesnt have to (actively) cooperate in the process at all and can still claim they are protecting us by refusing to help LEO unlock devices if they are asked to. (they wont have to ask Cupertino any longer)
And as I type I wonder... What if you are dead? or asleep? Does it still work? Can your teen kid quietly grab your phone off the nightstand, hold it up to your face in the dark as you snore then go use the phone or buy something with it now that they are tying the wallet to it?
Never had an issue with my Apple products, sure as hell can't say that for Android or PC. Couple times a week I walk out of my house wearing a watch that tracks my heart rate via a bluetooth heart rate monitor, tracks my speed, location and splits via internal GPS while sending music to my wireless headphones. Once I get home it uploads all of the information to my phone which then uploads it to my internet account all by itself. I can open database spreadsheets, slide presentations and word processing documents on my phone, iPad or Macbook and the progress is saved and shared with the other devices without me doing a thing. Texts, calls and calendar reminders all show up on my watch at a glance as they come in.
My wife has used PCs for years and her business is very printer heavy. As a result she goes through a couple printers a year and she insists on buying HP. I always get the pleasant experience of making the printers work with the PCs which is usually a two to three hour process if I don't have to talk to someone in Istanbul for guidance. I can take my Macbook, plug it into the same printer and within two minutes it has gone onto the internet, located the necessary software, installed it and the printer is up and running.
I have to use a Windows laptop at work. It's less than six months old and my internet access is heavily restricted so as to not allow any of the 4.3 billion viruses, malware, adware, whatevers to infect it. Every day it picks one piece of software that it doesn't like and I have to reboot it to get the software to work. It's almost always a different piece of software each day but there is always something that doesn't work, always.
Maybe comparing the Apple products to crack is appropriate. I've heard the stuff is good, real good so its fitting.
+1 the (Obama Administration) Feds didn't ask Apple to open a single phone. They asked for a program to circumvent ALL Apple phones. That a pretty huge leap, akin to not a key that just opens your door, buy everyone else's as well.
Apple always seems to go first in Pwn2Own.
This is why they are hacked less.
Smaller market share, so not as many to hit, less incentive to build attacks against. Why attack 6% of the systems when you can focus on the other 92%?
This is why they are hacked less.
Smaller market share, so not as many to hit, less incentive to build attacks against. Why attack 6% of the systems when you can focus on the other 92%?
I'd never heard of Pwn2Own, had to Google it. Just judging by this I'm going to guess that you're more of a computer person than I am. I am a user and only a user. I don't write code and don't understand probably 85% of the terms that start flying when "computer people" are trying to diagnose an issue. If Windows has evolved to be as user friendly for us low level consumers then Apple its a win/win all around. In my experience, Apple products simply work and they make my life much easier for it.
As far as the work laptop you may be right, like I said I known next to nothing about networking (understatement of the decade). The issues I'm having, in my experience are par for the course and nothing new with Windows.
If the Pwn2Own Wiki page is correct it seems the love is spread pretty well among the brands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2Own