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US antitrust officials decline to change agreements on songwriting royalties
Nothing to do with streaming, but whenever the topic of songwriting royalties comes up I remember a legendary case of abuse: Gene Roddenberry wrote never-used and completely terrible lyrics to the Star Trek theme, and thereby granted himself half the royalties otherwise owed to composer Alexander Courage.
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Tech firms worry Supreme Court win for Apple over Samsung could benefit patent trolls
How does NOT changing an old law open a new door?
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BlackBerry CEO says Apple's security stance puts company over 'greater good'
Quoting Apple's iOS security guide:kennmsr said:
As a retired Test Engineer, Apple does have a way to access the data on iPhones to bypass the lock feature, they have their bed-of-nails test beds used to final test logic boards prior to assembly into a finished iPhone. These test fixtures and associated test software can be reprogrammed to download memory contents and associated secure enclave and provide that information to law enforcement for them to review and decrypt. This is possible because logic boards have test points used by test engineers to bypass normal inputs and outputs to speed testing of logic portions of the finished product.AppleInsider said:
The shooter's iPhone 5c had been prevented from making further iCloud backups after discovery by the FBI, because of a password request made by the city of San Bernardino at the behest of law enforcement. Chen is taking issue with Cook's refusal to order Apple engineers to build and maintain a tool allowing the FBI access to the encrypted iPhone..
The device’s unique ID (UID) and a device group ID (GID) are AES 256-bit keys fused (UID) or compiled (GID) into the application processor and Secure Enclave during manufacturing. No software or firmware can read them directly; they can see only the results of encryption or decryption operations performed by dedicated AES engines implemented in silicon using the UID or GID as a key. Additionally, the Secure Enclave’s UID and GID can only be used by the AES engine dedicated to the Secure Enclave. The UIDs are unique to each device and are not recorded by Apple or any of its suppliers. The GIDs are common to all processors in a class of devices (for example, all devices using the Apple A8 processor), and are used for non security-critical tasks such as when delivering system software during installation and restore. Integrating these keys into the silicon helps prevent them from being tampered with or bypassed, or accessed outside the AES engine. The UIDs and GIDs are also not available via JTAG or other debugging interfaces.
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Apple considering Russian repair center in wake of local iPhone lawsuit - report
If he thinks his phone is still going to be jailbroken or have any of his data on it after Apple does a hardware repair on it, he's mistaken. Even if Apple sets up shop to do in-store screen replacement, the phone will be erased to do the calibration AFAIK.
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Apple execs say 'no end date' to iTunes downloads, sales in better-than-expected decline
The only people who have a reason to want downloads to go away are music companies would would rather be paid every time a song is played, as they are with streaming. I like having a large collection that works without the Internet.
