New documents reveal which encryption tools the NSA couldn't crack

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Thanks to Edward Snowden, we're getting a new look at which programs can successfully keep out the NSA. A report in Der Spiegel has shed new light on the NSA's encryption-breaking programs, and put a spotlight on the handful of programs that are still giving them trouble. The findings, based on leaked documents, were also presented onstage at the Chaos Computer Club Conference in Hamburg by researcher Jacob Appelbaum and Laura Poitras, who took the findings as a call to action. "We really wanted to have some of these answers for fifteen years," Appelbaum told the crowd.

Full Story: New documents reveal which encryption tools the NSA couldn't crack | The Verge

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Tim Cook says Apple will fight US gov

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Tim Cook says Apple will fight US gov

Saw that today...amazing that the govt cant "break" that code .. Guess they aren't as good as they think...:agreed:

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Tech's big guns back up Apple in encryption battle - CBS News

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LOL

He posted the tweet urging a boycott of apple using an iphone! lmfao

Trump urges supporters to boycott Apple in wake of encryption brouhaha | Ars Technica

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So he'll boycott an American company that designs all its products in the US and employs thousands of Americans in Cupertino and instead use a Korean company that designs its products in Korea.

The stupid is deep in this one.

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This also confirms what I've been saying all along about the audience he caters to. Only people who would consider this boycott are simple minded baby boomers. Sad part is, they are the ones who vote.

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As if people have the money to just go get a different device anyway. I watched a few of those town hall things and his was just awful. All talking points and no substance. At least the other guys i saw were able to lay out detailed plans for the issues that were brought up. Whether you can agree with them or not they at least have something. Trump just spouts off a talking point and says "this person loves me" and "no I didn't say that" "Mexico will pay for that" blah blah blah. He is not prepared for the office in any manner.

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only option left is ole bernie i guess.

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John McAfee discloses, on National Television, how to gain entry to the iphone in question with physical access to the device and how we are all being fooled by the FBI to get a backdoor implementation built in. https://youtu.be/MG0bAaK7p9s

He offers more detail in the comments section on the YouTube video.

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John McAfee is full of shit. I won't go into the technical details of how encryption works, but this Ars Tehcnica article does a good job of explaining it. I am astonished that a cybersecurity pioneer (leave aside the irony of a cybersecurity guy going public with a method to hack into a computer) would really be this clueless.

John McAfee better prepare to eat a shoe because he doesn

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He's not breaking the encryption he is only bypassing the lock screen to get into the phone. I thought that was pretty clear.

Once the FBI is in they can probably brute force the encryption with their supercomputers.

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Again, he needs the PIN to unencrypt the phone. How is he going to get the PIN? Even if he gets past the lock screen like you describe, the PIN is not stored in plaintext anywhere in flash. He is not getting it. The system generates a key to decrypt WHEN IT GETS THE RIGHT PIN. The software uses the hardware ID that is hardcoded into the silicon chip to generate the key to decrypt it. It doesn't need the PIN stored anywhere. The way it knows that it got the right PIN is when it can successfully decrypt the phone.

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From Mcaffee
"I know the the A7 system chip well, including its secure enclave with seperate coprocessor that stores the fingerprint, the ephemeral generated by the coprocessor that even Apple doesn't know, the secure enclave memory isolated from the rest of the processes on the chip, etc. Doesn't matter. The main ARM processor has its own memory and that's what I'm interested in. I will simply sidestep calling the secure enclave and pretend it doesn't exist. I'm not trying to get encrypted data, merely trying to force a complete boot of iOS. Trivial given the fact that the entire A7 system chip has been expanded into a board with seperate components for every subfunction of the chip. On the board, the secure enclave processor and it's memory are fully accessible, even though we don't need it "

He goes on to say the A6 chip is even easier without the secure enclave.

I really don't think you'll be able to educate John Mcaffee on encryption.

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OK, we'll see. I guess he can demonstrate it on YouTube. Hopefully his shoe is made of chocolate and not leather, just in case.