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flydog said:

Wgkrueger said:

It seems like these cracking devices require a physical port to work (I may be wrong in that). If that’s true then a port less iPhone will be even more secure from, what I see, is the potential for malicious cracking by a bad actor of the device. The new MagSafe charger makes me think the physical ports of the iPhone are soon to be a thing of the past.

Physical ports will always be present because they are necessary for DFU and diagnostic purposes. 

Probably, yes, but it's not a necessity.

You could for instance replace it with dedicated hardware able to reset the other hardware, and then load new firmware through a very short-range high bandwidth wireless solution.

Then, of course, the firmware of that piece of new hardware couldn't (easily) be upgraded; but that's not different than with how Apple is already including security hardware that can't just have its firmware upgraded in any form of convenient way.

Wgkrueger said:

It seems like these cracking devices require a physical port to work (I may be wrong in that). If that’s true then a port less iPhone will be even more secure from, what I see, is the potential for malicious cracking by a bad actor of the device. The new MagSafe charger makes me think the physical ports of the iPhone are soon to be a thing of the past.

The closer you are to "low-level" hardware, the better it is when you are trying to circumvent layers of protection.

It's the same as you physically walking from point A to point B, it will be quicker the fewer obstacles in your way.

So, yes, having access to a physical port is usually an advantage.

But… that doesn't mean that a physical port is a necessity.

Without a physical port certain attacks will be prevented, but some will not be affected as all, and there might even be some new vulnerabilities introduced.

Without a physical port a physical attack will still be possible, though, it will just require the device to be physically opened up. Depending on how the wireless stuff is implemented it might even be possible to simply replace it with a physical port; and then things are back to where they used to be.

At the end of the day it's just another day in the game, where all sides will keep on making progress and negate the progress of the other sides.

Edit: Also, don't forget that a wireless connection opens up for the potential weakness of it being able to be hacked through otherwise protective layers; like having your device automatically hacked simply by standing next to a bad person on public transport etc.

erio said:

“Non-profit organization” by for-profit companies ߤ㦬t;/div>

From the earlier post by AI: "Included in the founding member roster are developers like Epic Games, Spotify, and Tile. All three are development teams that have been leading the rallying cry against Apple's behavior toward developers."

So the whole thing is a PR stunt by rich people hiding behind poor people saying that they all need to get more profit.

Joe Piervincenti said:

Man, love how it becomes their fault that puppy can’t control your own spending.. people are ridiculous!

Exactly, stupid people not just giving up heroin, tobacco, alcohol, opioids, gambling, sugar… Don't they know that there's nothing in our brains that is highly sensitive to certain "rewards", and as such there's no such thing as an addiction, just lazy people…? (That's what you mean by calling people "ridiculous"?)

22july2013 said:

hentaiboy said:

AirTag $49
Keychain Holster (which you’ll need ‘cos there’s no fricken hole) $9.95
Or twice the price of these: <TILE PICTURE>

Can you use Tiles to measure your posture? To me that would be worth at least $100. 

Good thing that there are already two such products linked before your post, so you can just go ahead and buy those right now; completely within the value/price that you wanted them at.