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Title: Apple can’t decrypt your iPhone: Why it matters Post by: HCK on November 04, 2015, 03:00:14 am Apple can’t decrypt your iPhone: Why it matters
<article> <section class="page"> <p> You know the scenario if you’ve watched 24 or similar TV shows and movies. A bad guy has a nuclear bomb or other instrument of terror that will go off, and the only way to stop it is to decrypt information stored on a mobile device or phone. Without the ability to break that encryption quickly, lots of people will die.</p><p> Thank goodness, in the context of the show, a wily government hacker or a subverted black-hat ne’er-do-well can punch keys and get the data. (Sometimes, torture is involved, which Amnesty International would remind us (http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/torture) is both against international law and doesn’t help acquire useful operational information.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2999804/security/apple-cant-decrypt-your-iphone-why-it-matters.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple can’t decrypt your iPhone: Why it matters (http://www.macworld.com/article/2999804/security/apple-cant-decrypt-your-iphone-why-it-matters.html#tk.rss_all) |