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Apple agrees to open iPhone NFC for UK's Brexit app by end of 2019
Putting ones faith in self-administered “Protocols” is naive for a technology which integrates so closely with our personal and private lives.blah64 said:
Do tell! I will be the last person to ever put my state-issued government ID on a mobile device, but I'm quite interested to know what the protocol is in Louisiana, and how it went down for you in a real-world situation. It's also important to consider how policies evolve and where and how they can be abused.StrangeDays said:
In Louisiana we already have our state government issued ID on iOS, currently via an app. A new protocol was developed for police stops which employs a hands-off approach. I’ve been pulled over once and so it was.mac_128 said:
I would like nothing more than to have my government issued IDs in my Apple Wallet. On the other hand, then my device might become more open to scrutiny by customs and border agencies, and even local police.uroshnor said:So the article does not really describe likely what’s is happening.
Right now , iOS reads NDEF format over NFC, and can respond in a few other formats. (And its pretty strict, it doesn’t do Smart Posters for example, which are a modification of NDEF).
E-Passports can be encoded in as few different ways, but most are BAC encoded. This means the NFC data is an encrypted blob, and the encryption key is derived from the data on the photo page.
That’s why at a check in kiosk, you usually put your e-Passport face down and the photo page is being scanned concurrently with reading the chip.
If you try it today, the Phone realists the epassport is there, but it rejects the encrypted data as invalidly formatted.
Apple doesn’t need to open up access to the NFC subsystem to read an e-passport, they just need to add an API that supports reading the common encrypted passport formats (eg reading a BAC e-Passport with a supplied key). If they were being super slick, they’d have an API that extracted the key material from an image of the photograph page in the vision framework, and you could pass that straight on to the CoreNFC code.
If they can do that its super-slick flow, and may even enable Apple Wallet to hold government grade identity cards.
Unless the “protocols” are constitutional, then even legislated and legal rulings thereof can be overturned overnight between a relatively benign government, to an outwardly fascist one. Do “emergency” conditions exist which allow the suspension of “protocols”? A deep red US conservative state is the last place I’d want the government to have any excuse to access my personal data, especially if I were a member of the minority population. Affluent, middle-aged, straight white men have little to worry about in such places today, but it would be interesting to see whether a government that openly discriminated against them would elicit the embrace of technology with the mere premise of “protocols” to protect them.
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Apple agrees to open iPhone NFC for UK's Brexit app by end of 2019
I would like nothing more than to have my government issued IDs in my Apple Wallet. On the other hand, then my device might become more open to scrutiny by customs and border agencies, and even local police.uroshnor said:So the article does not really describe likely what’s is happening.
Right now , iOS reads NDEF format over NFC, and can respond in a few other formats. (And its pretty strict, it doesn’t do Smart Posters for example, which are a modification of NDEF).
E-Passports can be encoded in as few different ways, but most are BAC encoded. This means the NFC data is an encrypted blob, and the encryption key is derived from the data on the photo page.
That’s why at a check in kiosk, you usually put your e-Passport face down and the photo page is being scanned concurrently with reading the chip.
If you try it today, the Phone realists the epassport is there, but it rejects the encrypted data as invalidly formatted.
Apple doesn’t need to open up access to the NFC subsystem to read an e-passport, they just need to add an API that supports reading the common encrypted passport formats (eg reading a BAC e-Passport with a supplied key). If they were being super slick, they’d have an API that extracted the key material from an image of the photograph page in the vision framework, and you could pass that straight on to the CoreNFC code.
If they can do that its super-slick flow, and may even enable Apple Wallet to hold government grade identity cards. -
Apple's services event receives rocky reception from industry and critics
There are companies Apple could buy without the super big brands. Lions gate, Viacom, CBS, maybe even Sony ...nerdrage said:Apple needs big brands like Disney and AT&T have, in order to compete. Either that, or they need to somehow become a true meta-service, by which I mean they are able to offer personalized payment schemes. Everyone else is going after personalizing the content - find exactly what you want by the Netflix algorithm, etc - but the payment systems are still either iTunes style (expensive but you get exactly what you want) or Netflix style (cheaper but the selection is limited). There are many other ways people might choose to pay.
People are already implementing a churn style - rotate thru all the services each month or so, hoover up just what you want, movie on - but that's inconvenient and silly, given that computers are designed to do rote tasks like this so much better. Apple could implement auto-churn ad charge $2/month above the average $10 or $12 it would cost to rotate thru Amazon, Netflix, CBSAA, Hulu, HBO, Disney, etc on our own. Obviously requires cooperation from the whole spectrum of services or it's not delivering what we want.
Stephenson's comment about customer data is prescient. He may not be correct that Apple will share data with him, but he's right in thinking that's the core thing - access and control of customer data, and the ability to keep it out of the hands of sort-of-allies/sort-of-competitors. I think this streaming fight will come down to a fight over data.
But the data is the key. The anonymous user data is all Apple has to bargain with. It’s the thing that made ATT roll the dice and acquire Time Warner. The directive now, is make shows like the ones customers watch on their streaming and satellite services. If Apple wants HBO, they’ll likely provide the anonymous programming data. Otherwise, ATT will have exclusive offering of it via their own streaming services. Right now Apple needs HBO a lot more than ATT needs Apple TV customers to subscribe through Apple to get it. Besides there’s already an app on the platform which ATT gets all the data they want. Then again, ATT may want their new service front and center on the Apple TV app when it launches. Only time will tell whether everybody goes off on their own, or eventually all normalize to certain standards of access. What’s certain is not everyone will make it ...
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Apple's services event receives rocky reception from industry and critics
That’s fairly specious reasoning. If Marvel only made R-rated movies, your contention is that it would not be as successful since they chose not to release many R-rated movies now. The fact is, the one R-rated movie series Marvel made, DEADPOOL, is the 10th highest ranked movie in the franchise, and the 6th highest in the last 5 years. DEADPOOL 2, is the 15th highest ranked movie. That’s out of 55 films released in the last 20 years. Given that it earned as much as many of the top Marvel PG-rated films, one could assume it’s not all adults only that are seeing the film, although using your reasoning, I suppose the audience for an R-rated DEADPOOL is entirely unique to that film, and otherwise do not watch PG-13 Marvel films? Either way, it is a very successful film series for Marvel, and its R-rating doesn’t appear to hamper its success in any way.foregoneconclusion said:
You don't need insider information. It's common knowledge that R-rated material is not as commercially successful overall as PG-13 or lower. How many of Marvel's movies are rated R, for example? Is Star Wars an R-rated franchise?larrya said: Breaking: I have received insider information on the show expected to be the most popular and most inoffensive on Apple TV.
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Editorial: Steve Jobs would have been proud of Tim Cook's Apple News & Apple TV event
Frankly I can’t believe any legitimate article, opinion or not, would trade on the concept of “Steve Jobs would have ....”. And I’m absolutely stunned AI would do it. Such articles completely undermine the credibility of not just the person presenting the article, but the website itself.macxpress said:Never a fan of what Steve would have though articles or comments....oh well. Nobody truly knows what Steve would have though. I guess it was kind of a Steve Job jobs type Keynote, especially the movies portion at the end. I will say that was very well done. Hopefully it turns out as good as the Keynote did in the end.
