Could the selection of primes derived from Pi be optimized to find weaker ones vs. stronger ones? eg: calculate a very large set of them and then pick the ones that are weakest and then publish that as a standard (of course you wouldn't let on that you had chosen the weakest, you could pick an arbitrary function that gets you the weak ones which would then look really good because pi is objective and that function is objective.)
I wasn't angry. I find the need to smear me like that an excellent example of the anti-intellectualism that is rife on this site.
Fine, I've deleted my contribution. I don't waste time attempting to explain science to christians, I shouldn't waste time trying to teach you lot logic. For the same reason.
Does anyone know where one can get a free wildcard certificate? Need it for development and foo/bar/baz/biff.example.com change names regularly (they include the hash of the code commit) so I would like to get a *.dev.example.com wildcard cert. (one that won't give warnings that scare the business types who are testing the code, and won't understand what self-signed means.)
The iPhone has never prevented you from running your own code on it. It shipped with a javascript SDK and then within the year they opened it up to objective-c programs. They charge you $99 a year for the certificate signing service, but it's really no big deal... if you can afford an iPhone you can afford $99 a year. (Hell, I think these days you don't even need to be a paid developer, the free developers can run their code on their phones.)
10k distinct combinations-- if, and only iff, they used a 7 digit all numeric pin. The odds of this are not bad for most people, but in this case the person who had this phone has shown better than the average criminals level of OpSec.
One thing is for sure- for phones with TouchID where you only need to enter the pin on reboot, it makes sense to make the pin something other than numeric and longer than 4 digits.
Does anyone really believe he can do it? Is anyone taking him seriously?
I see this as a campaign stunt for the LP nod. But for me, it only confirms that Gary Johnson is the right choice. McAfee isn't exactly striking a resonant chord for liberty here. He's coming off like a braggart.
I wish the FBI would give him a shot at the data- cause I'd like to see him eat a shoe on live TV, or STFU and go into hiding if he doesn't have the guts to eat the shoe.
Cause I don't think for a second he can break AES.
Lets see, english major up to her ears in debt, moves to San Francisco for a CSR job?
I think we need to up the math requirements for english degrees.
Alas you can't teach common sense.
I would be a lot more sympathetic if I weren't constantly being bombarded by BernieBros insisting we need "Free" college educations and all kinds of other handouts.
Sorry, I grew up poor, I didn't get lucky, I worked hard. I made my own luck.
The phone in question was a work phone, not a personal phone. In work environments the enterprise IT tools control how the phone is administered, backed up, and the like. Which means that the company that issued the phone most likely had the key to unlock the backups.
Transplant yourself to any other police state. Anywhere with a very strong government hell bent on controlling its citizens. Eastern Germany, Or the USSR, or Germany under the Nazis.
How did the government get such power? Immediately via overthrow, or incrementally?
At what point do you draw the line? Has there ever been a government that got some power and then stopped trying to get more? Look at the history of the USA for the past 200 years.
Apple is trying to draw a line in the sand. We can debate about where the line should be, but there has to be a line.
I'm not sure which "other side" you're targeting with your argument, but as a gun rights advocate its' completely consistent to be a privacy rights advocate-- and basically a human rights advocate.
That it doesn't hurt another, do what thou wilt. Thus gay married farmers should be able to defend their marijuana crops with fully auto AK47s. Marijuana, guns and gay sex don't do bad things to society. Only people can misuse them.
Also, the court isn't asking, its' demanding, and its demanding Apple create a vulnerability in a system designed to thwart such vulnerabilities. I'm not sure it's even possible.
What if Apple didn't fight this yet failed to create a working vulnerability? After all the phone has protections against its firmware being replaced without the passcode!
IF Apple were to fail would they be held in contempt of court?
This is why I have contempt for our courts-- way too many judges who are never punished for their tyranny.
My Facebook feed is full of people ragging on Trump for being on the wrong side of this issue, but they are silent about Obama:
"In a secret meeting convened by the White House around Thanksgiving, senior national security officials ordered agencies across the U.S. government to find ways to counter encryption software and gain access to the most heavily protected user data on the most secure consumer devices, including Apple Inc.’s iPhone, the marquee product of one of America’s most valuable companies, according to two people familiar with the decision."
This ruling didn't make corporations people, it gave groups of people the right to exercise the free speech rights they already had, even when they choose to pool their money to buy the media on which they wish to express themselves.
First off, depends on how you use the word "regulate".
But the government has done a poor job of regulating money, and well, to be honest, money is really the result of our efforts / labors, and thus yeah, the government should not be regulating it, generally.
If you discover a problem with a product, you either don't release it or you fix it. You don't need to tell others (and others don't have a right) what you've discovered.
To think otherwise is to think that my invention that I have locked up in my head that would benefit society (according to you) is something you have the right to force me to disclose.
Privacy exists for reasons and is a basic human right.
EG: do those who think you should have to disclose everything you know have pins on their phones? Think Apple shouldn't be encrypting phone data?
Brand new software that-- and this seems to be missed in the wider discussion-- may be impossible to produce. It may not be possibly for Apple to comply. For instance, you can't install firmware on a locked phone.