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  • Leak: what law enforcement can unlock with the 'Graykey' iPhone hacking tool

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    DAalseth said:
    22july2013 said:
    DAalseth said:
    I fully expect 47 to push through a law requiring Apple to build in a back door. With that, there will go our security. 
    How would you feel if the back door only was installed for non-American iPhones. Would you be comfortable with that? When you say "our security" are you talking about Americans, or citizens of the world, including Hamas?

    Trump doesn't have the constitutional authority to create any law. Maybe you know that, but the way you worded it sounded like he has some degree of law-making authority.
    First the President has had a huge amount of power to control the agenda and what goes to and through Congress. Especially if both the house and senate are controlled by the same party. If he wants a law to declare chicken masala illegal, he could get it and this SCOTUS will back him up on it. A back door on our devices for ‘national security’ would be something he could do without breaking a sweat. 

    Second, back doors are always bad. Trying to restrict them to just this or that group is a minefield that is doomed to failure. Security for the law abiding will be compromised, police and security will abuse the power, the keys to the ‘secret’ opening will get into the hands of criminals. That is an absolute gold plated certainty. Meanwhile groups like Hamas will just use alternative software options and systems to render their communications immune to spying and the back door. So no, any back door is a bad idea.


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    Outside of tax cuts, which Republicans love with a gusto, getting legislation through a Congress with narrow majorities of the President’s party is tougher than you appear to think. Absent the opposition party’s controlling one or both houses of Congress, the power struggle becomes Congress vs. Executive branch. Senators in particular like to believe they always have the upper hand.

    watto_cobramarklark

  • Thieves using package tracking data to steal iPhone packages off porches

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    GTJayG said:
    It doesn't help that by default in the US, Apple's own shipments via UPS do not require signature.
    Not my experience for higher ticket items, that is, anything with a CPU (not certain about AirPods). Wonder if that varies by stat for city.
    watto_cobra

  • UK group wants $4 billion payout for iCloud users

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    This isn't tech-related, but legal. The negative check-off to avoid inclusion in the class action implies that millions of Apple device owners could be included in a suit in which they really have no interest (and are unlikely to profit by). For what it's worth, this appears to be a (rare?) instance in which the US legal system makes more sense: only those with a real or imagined grievance participate in a class action by responding in the positive to the legal firm's offer.

    On a more relevant matter: I've never done an iCloud backup of anything. That's what cables and the hard/SSD drive storage on your Mac (or, even, *gasp*, Windows machine) are for. And if you just happen to back up your computer to, say, a Time Machine drive, a Carbon Copy Cloner drive, and/or a network backup service such as Backblaze, you'd be belted and braced.
    StrangeDaysAlex1Nwatto_cobra

  • First M4 Max benchmark tears apart the M2 Ultra Mac Studio

    sunman42sunman42
    Have you also compared graphics performance? My Geekbench 6 score with an M2 Ultra (16 performance, 8 efficiency CPU cores, 60 graphics cores) Studio is a hair over 200,000. 
    Alex1Nwatto_cobra

  • A smaller Mac mini brings big problems for server farms and accessory makers

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    Jut a note: the top-of-the-line, M4 Pro-equipped Mini can be configured with up to 8 Tbyte of flash storage.
    watto_cobra