HeartBeatOfTheBeastHoof and Claw 1 point on 2016-03-18 23:31:20
You need to fix the link, you doubled it. But yes this leads to a whole can of worms. Imagine if the wrong hands got a hold of the technology to hack into people's cell phones.
zoozooz 2 points on 2016-03-18 23:36:57
Oops. That explains why "suggest title" didn't work. Unfortunately reddit submissions can't be fixed, only deleted and resubmitted...
zoozooz 1 point on 2016-03-18 23:35:39
(Addition of [Z] to the title by me)
The technology that makes those passwords matter is called encryption. It’s the basic security that protects our phones from would-be creeps, but it’s also the critical layer of defense that protects our airports, hospitals, power plants, and water treatment facilities from would-be cyber attackers.
But that's not the whole story. After you input your decryption password, the files are decrypted and could theoretically be transferred to the NSA servers or something.
And not just "normal" programs or the operating system could be used to send your files to the NSA - often there is more software running on different parts of the hardware that are not under the control of the operating system.
Even if you use only android's open source code without any of the closed source google apps, there is still some proprietary code running in various parts of the hardware, for example inside the UMTS/HSDPA/LTE modem. Even worse, on many smartphones this hardware has FULL access to the memory. On these phones your modem could at any time decide to upload the content of your RAM to the NSA servers without you having any chance of knowing about it, if you don't happen to physically monitor the mobile data traffic at the time.
The only defense against that is buying a smartphone where the hardware has been proven to be physically unable to do this sort of access.
Now back to the apple iPhone: You don't even need to start thinking about this stuff in apple land. You're running a huge closed source operating system. Who knows what kind of backdoors this operating system already contains to enable the NSA, other three letter agencies or maybe anyone to access your files after you enter your decryption password.
If an American company is responsible for producing the hardware and/or software and the hardware designs and the source code are not open for anyone to inspect (and to prove that this is actually the stuff in the phones that are sold), they are forced to comply with whatever the NSA tells them to put into it and therefore their hardware and software is never 100% trustworthy, period.
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HeartBeatOfTheBeastHoof and Claw 1 point on 2016-03-18 23:39:25
/r/zoophilia archive
You need to fix the link, you doubled it. But yes this leads to a whole can of worms. Imagine if the wrong hands got a hold of the technology to hack into people's cell phones.
Oops. That explains why "suggest title" didn't work. Unfortunately reddit submissions can't be fixed, only deleted and resubmitted...
(Addition of [Z] to the title by me)
But that's not the whole story. After you input your decryption password, the files are decrypted and could theoretically be transferred to the NSA servers or something.
And not just "normal" programs or the operating system could be used to send your files to the NSA - often there is more software running on different parts of the hardware that are not under the control of the operating system.
Even if you use only android's open source code without any of the closed source google apps, there is still some proprietary code running in various parts of the hardware, for example inside the UMTS/HSDPA/LTE modem. Even worse, on many smartphones this hardware has FULL access to the memory. On these phones your modem could at any time decide to upload the content of your RAM to the NSA servers without you having any chance of knowing about it, if you don't happen to physically monitor the mobile data traffic at the time.
Here is a technical overview from the Replicant project: http://www.replicant.us/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php
The only defense against that is buying a smartphone where the hardware has been proven to be physically unable to do this sort of access.
Now back to the apple iPhone: You don't even need to start thinking about this stuff in apple land. You're running a huge closed source operating system. Who knows what kind of backdoors this operating system already contains to enable the NSA, other three letter agencies or maybe anyone to access your files after you enter your decryption password.
If an American company is responsible for producing the hardware and/or software and the hardware designs and the source code are not open for anyone to inspect (and to prove that this is actually the stuff in the phones that are sold), they are forced to comply with whatever the NSA tells them to put into it and therefore their hardware and software is never 100% trustworthy, period.
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Crazy stuff eh?
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