Posts by f-bone

Apple's fruitless rootless security broken by code that fits in a tweet

Its a downward spiral as it seems...

Considering all the latest f*ups Apple has made in iOS and OSX, probably due to high pressure on releasing stuff or just incompetent engineers - it seems to me it will only get worse.

Also we must consider that for every bug discovered there must be at least one still hiding somewhere.

This can only mean one thing to me: Apple should SLOW DOWN in releasing UNTESTED stuff like its f*ing Android and take the time and resources to safe-guard and make stable-in-operation what they currently sell to their customers.

If Apple fucks up security and stability then its "beautiful" products will NOT be worth the money.

An Apple user.

Tor Project: US government paid university $1m bounty to hack our networks

That is IF you believe their story.

It very well be the case of backdoors instead of vulns and all of this is an act created by Tor and the feds. Easily done and Tor gets off the hook because anyone can be hacked - Feds get the blame.

But remember that Tor is also gov-funded. Never forget that. They will probably let some crooks operate there to seed trust to higher ranked criminals and/or terrorists who will feel confident to use Tor. Then the Feds will "hack" Tor and arrest the criminals. Then Tor, after some period of time, will gain once more its credibility and the cycle begins again.

Arresting criminals of course is something everybody wants but we all want privacy, too. So the question is what we want MORE.

Final thought, if white-hats hacked Tor then black-hats should be able to do that, too. But didnt. Which to me translates that Tor "let them in".

my 2p.

US gov to Apple: COUGH UP iMessages or FEEL our FEDERAL FROWN

How do we know?

"Last year QuarksLab researcher Cyril Cattiaux said Apple's control of the key infrastructure meant it could get messages by key interference, however that's a hypothetical scenario and there's no reason to think Apple hasn't kept the faith."

It is -= possible =- under some lobbying/tax/criminal/terrorism/whatever other pressure Apple would "visit" both "rooms" if they have kept a small window open. This way the customers will think their privacy is totally secure and the FBI, CIA et all will do business as usual. The deal could be from Apple's side to the agencies: "Keep whining about our incredible security (thus making our business look good) and we will give you the info you want from time to time and nobody has to know. Just use it wisely so we don't ridicule our selves."

I would like to know what would prevent such scenario.

F.

Files on Seagate wireless disks can be poisoned, purloined – thanks to hidden login

Back-door fine

There should be legislation forcing companies that purposely or accidentally leave such backdoors to their products pay a fine of a few million dollars... Having business secrets - no matter how small - or personal data being hacked because a stupid ass company left a backdoor is unacceptable. Ask me if I am buying Seagate again no matter how many firmware updates they release.