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  • Apple disputes claims of iOS 'vulnerability' to brute force passcode hack

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    addison said:
    The Israelis have a device that they sell to governments that can access all iPhones including the X at will. In the Uk the police will just snoop your phoes if they wish to and no search warrent is required.
    it's not "at will", they have to fracking decap the god damn chip. Man, I'm tired of such crap.
    And even there, if you have a wacky long passcode, how the hell would they get in that way.

    All ways of getting in depend on bypassing the brute force restriction. The originality of the israeli method that used to work in older phones is that it also allows mirroring the device memory to allow cracking on another device. That can't happen in later phones. 

    Put a god damn string of 3-4 imojis in your passcode and your set for a quasi eternal crack time for whoever gets your device.
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  • Apple inks Writers Guild of America contract, agrees to better writer benefits

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    nunzy said:
    I wonder what Apple's angle is here. They don't give money away for free. Not ever.
    The angle is starving the others and getting the best by paying better for talent.

    When the talent pool is shallow, paying better is a good way of stiffling the competition and boosting your chances of succeeding.

    That is a strategy that they use often, most often when its not people. Like buying all the production of face-Id components meaning others are out of options.
    ronntmaynunzy

  • Apple introduces watchOS 5 with enhanced fitness, Siri capabilities [u]

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    techrider said:
    It appears a line has been drawn on the life cycle of an Apple Watch - roughly 3.5 years (assuming you're a 'day one' adopter), regardless of how little or much you spent on the body and strap options (imagine the $10K+ some spent on the first generation gold Edition watch!).  Perhaps a Series 1/2/3 will have longer life cycles. I love my gen 1, and will have to decide if the new features in watchOS 5 are worth parting with $ to abandon an otherwise perfectly functioning device and band.  I'd like to see an Apple Watch in a category of devices Apple supports for at least 5 years.
    The only line drawn is between first gen kind of slow hw and the later one.
    First gen Apple often has shorter support, mostly I guess because it has been in development longer and has less developed manufacturing capacity behind it (they don't know how much they need) and thus often has older CPUs to reduce risks.

    The first Iphone (IOS 1-3 (3 versions)) and Ipad (IOS 3-5 (3 versions)) had a very short support too compared to say the 3GS (IOS 3-6 (4 versions)) and 5s (IOS 7-12 (6 versions)

    The Ipad 2 was shipped with 4.3 incredibly supported until 9.3.5 (6 versions). I expect the Ipad Air 2 shipped with IOS 8 to be supported until IOS 14 at least (7 versions and nearly 8 years).
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  • Watch and hear HomePod's multi-room audio with stereo playback on iOS 11.4

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    sirozha said:
    If only Apple TV could take audio input from other devices via an optical audio cable and via its HDMI port (if it were ARC), the HomePod speakers would suddenly become much more usable for playing other sources (like a game console, cable TV box, etc.) 
    Optical is OUT, use a converter, they're cheap.
    stantheman

  • iOS 11 now installed on 76% of compatible devices, up 11% since January

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    wood1208 said:
    OK,good statistics to be proud of. But, because even you want to revert install older IOS, you can't so it will always be upward upgrade. Good thing Apple supports older iPhone/iPad models with newer IOS unlike Android where you have to pray and hope to receive upgrade. but down side newer IOS feels slightly slower in performance on older iPhones. In some cases, I would not mind to either stay on older IOS and even go back.
    If you upgrade in the first few days, you can go back say 10 to 11 for a while.
    if you go 10 to 11.3, you can can't obviously but by that time you've had plenty of reviews to tell you if it is a good idea or not.
    It's your choice to do it or not. Security vs a very slight loss of possible usability (which is arguable, most of the losses in performances occur on early major versions that obviously have not been tuned / debugged enough with older phones and usually resolve themselves eventually).

    Only other options would be backporting security fixes accross all previous versions, both expensive (you have to QA all those hardware versions of special builds) and almost certainly introduces new security bugs in those special versions (regression bugs and new bugs).

    There is a reason even MS is moving more and more toward's Apple's way of doing things.
    From a security point of view, allowing people to stay on old versions is a mess.
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