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  • Up to three Macs coming with T-series security chips, shift to Apple CPU inevitable

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    rezwits said:
    f all of your "Memory/System Morsels" are on the "HD" aka SSD aka NAND drive, easily readable at anytime there will only be one answer/solution =  ENCRYPTION at ALL TIMES...  good bye Spectre good bye Meltdown... using these new encryption methods Apple is working on.  Yep the future is now!
    Merely encrypting all memory blocks (with a single key for the entire system) won't prevent Spectre/Meltdown style attacks at all, as those attacks don't directly access the memory, but rather have the CPU perform work on memory they don't own and then use cached vs cache miss timing to guess the values. Now, if each process/sand boxed unit has its own key...
    JWSCdoozydozen

  • Apple will ban apps offering rewards to users that enable tracking

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    j2fusion said:
    The only difference is with the in-app purchase, the developer earns money directly from the user and with add tracking it would be indirectly through the sales of advertising.
    The real difference is Apple does not get a cut from ad revenue in the latter case. Let's not pretend this is about privacy...   
    CloudTalkin

  • Apple sells 74.8M iPhones, rakes in $75.9B in revenue in company's biggest quarter ever

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    So missing the Q1 consensus & lower Q2 guidance than last year are all positive news? Apple is far from being in trouble, but is there even a pretense of impartiality in the headline? 
    asdasd

  • Cupertino mayor accuses Apple, responsible for nearly 20% of the city's tax revenue, of not paying

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    davidw said:
    Apple could easily design their products in Ireland. There's nothing about being designed in Cupertino that increases the value of Apple products. 
    No they can't. A desirable place to live (& alternative employment options) is crucial to attracting tech workers (or really any highly skilled work force). That isn't happening in Ireland (no offense to the Irish). Apple (& other companies) would if they could.

  • Tim Cook calls FBI backdoor demand 'dangerous,' vows to fight case

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    Apple is really in an indefensible position here. As much as Apple wants to, you can't truly protect a user using a weak password, even though that's what a lot of people do for the sake of convenience. If the phone had a strong password, any help from Apple would not have made it easy enough for the FBI to crack the encryption. The FBI is not asking for a backdoor to be built into iOS that can circumvent strong passwords (the strongest encryption is still weak w/ weak pass codes), but simply exploiting an inherent weakness (that's only weak when coupled w/ a weak password) that Apple has made it difficult for anyone else but itself to exploit.