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  • Latest Intel and AMD vulnerabilities a gentle reminder to switch to Apple silicon

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    The thing is, there's nothing magic about Apple's processors, that somehow prevent them from having these kind of vulnerabilities.  They just are unlikely to have these specific ones.  Apple's processors are in widespread enough use, with lots of high-value targets, where people will find these kind of vulnerabilities in Apple silicon.

    If anything, Apple will (based on history) be much much slower at fixing/patching and reporting these vulnerabilities, when Apple becomes aware of them.
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  • Apple execs explain how Apple Watch could replace your wallet and keys

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    GeorgeBMac said:
    AppleZulu said:
    mike1 said:
    JaiOh81 said:
    whatisgoingon said:
    Yeah, who wants to hand over their phone to a cop, who will dutifully take it back to their car, hack it and dump all it's contents while ostensibly "checking your id"...
    I think it would be more like a boarding pass now. You can get all the info without unlocking your phone. 
    Part of any eventual process would be the police officer scanning a QR-like code that is part of your ID and taking that back to the car or wherever to check your info. No need to hand over your phone.

    Indeed, they’ll definitely need to sort out with great clarity where the line is between consent to get license/registration/insurance info from a watch or phone and consent to access anything else on the same device. I’ve wondered about this already, as my insurance company’s app will produce onscreen proof of insurance, but when doing so, the phone is unlocked. Not sure if there’s been any test yet as to whether handing a device over to show insurance could then be interpreted as consent to look at everything else on the unlocked device.
    If you need to fear police then either you're doing something wrong or they are.
    In either case, that's the problem and it needs fixed -- not the phone.


    Sure, but already cops have been found to have scrubbed through peoples phones and copied pics off them, and likely other stuff as well.  And it doesn't matter if the phone is locked or not, as police already have software for hacking into phones that are locked.  Handing over your phone to them at least gets them whatever data is on the phone, and then it's a tossup as to whether the data is theirs to use in court (ie, if handing it over implies consent to search the device/"it's in plain sight").

    If instead your phone/watch just displays something like a QR code that JUST has your DL#/insurance #/whatever id #, and the other part has their own device that only scans it, and the phone/watch doesn't leave your possession, that's more reasonable.
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