theothergeoff

Now, as a former resident of St Cloud, (the western outpost of Michelle Bachmann's domain of influence, and epicenter of the 'Stearns County Syndrome'),  this will play really well... 'ISIS....iPhone enabled Radicalization, by golly, it's plain as day... you know der, I gonda vote for dat der Trump guy, you betcha! and stop those Apples from killin' Murican's'

waterrockets said:

Comey says the this technique does not work on modern devices. 

This is different than saying that the FBI cannot hack modern devices with different techniques.

Headline fail.

agreed.   It's generally hypothesized you can rip the memory out of a7 or greater iphone and copy it, and then feed the copies back to the phone, and brute force passwords 8 or 9 times, then repeat the process until you get a working guess (note to self: 8 char alpha/num/special passwords roughly 95^8 passwords to check... conservatively about 800Million years generously assuming 1 minute to guess 8 passwords and then iterate... [if that's not enough add asian and diactritical characters).

people using 4 char numerics... even 6 character... deserve no privacy;-).

lkrupp said:

Doesn’t matter. Android still wins because, well, just because. We know there are a billion Android phones out there with fatal security flaws that will never be patched but it just doesn’t matter. Android wins every time. Nobody cares. Go figure.

People buy what they buy.  There are probably a billion people on the planet that have no need for or can't afford digital security, just like there a billions of people who can't afford decent health care.  If a phone makes calls and has facebook... and the buyer puts their entire life on facebook anyway, who are we to say 'you shouldn't buy that phone... it isn't secure.'

I'm just glad there is a choice. 

sog35 said:

Why isnt the Verge, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Forbes, CNET, ect picking up this story?

So friken obvious these a-holes are trying their best to keep this quiet.

Crazy that Samsung just excused the past half dozen Note7 fires in China as having nothing to do with the Note7. Right......

maybe they are waiting for a confirmed pattern... some[most] news organizations won't source another news orgs article if it's a single source whose motivations to contact the newssite are in question...

"Hey Gizmodo... I got a picture of a replacment Samsung 7 that blew up in my pocket"
"who is this?"
"Well I'm Phil Schill...  errr... I'm Phyllis Shillsmeister...  It's a really bad blow up... I want people to know how bad this is...."