A Message to Our Customers - Apple

[MBAtarga]

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The FBI is using this specific phone/request to open the floodgate and make a precedent to enforce this among all mfrs for ANY future request.

[enzo1]

The FBI wants Apple to hand over a backdoor? ...A 15 year old boy just hacked the United States government and its high-level officials, including:

Personal and sensitive details of tens of thousands of FBI agents and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees.
Hacked into AOL emails of CIA director John Brennan.
Hacked into the personal phone accounts and emails of the US spy chief James Clapper.
Broke into AOL emails of the FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano

15 years old...

[jyl]

Apple developing iPhone and iCloud encryption that counters FBI-requested workaround, reports say

As we expected. Future iPhones will be immune from the attack the FBI is trying to force Apple to develop. Future iCloud backups may be impossible for Apple to recover, without the user's cooperation.

[stomachmonkey]

Wonder if it's true.

I suspect he did not actually hack anyones device but simply used a sniffer on an open network.

But it speaks to why encryption is important.

I got hacked mid-air while writing an Apple-FBI story

[jyl]

Sounds like the open network was the vulnerability.

So, when using a public network (starbucks, gogo in flight, etc) what do you do?. I subscribe to a VPN but only use it when I'm trying to get around geo-restriction.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by jyl

Sounds like the open network was the vulnerability.

So, when using a public network (starbucks, gogo in flight, etc) what do you do?. I subscribe to a VPN but only use it when I'm trying to get around geo-restriction.

Host your own email and force SSL. All my personal is set up that way and I force all my clients to do the same.

Only surf secure, https.

Use your VPN all the time.

[slodave]

Hack the planet!

[Holger]

Simple, dont use public network.




My wifes parents got a new router from Telekom. Setup and running.
I was looking into the settings some weeks ago and discovered that the router has TWO WLANs, one for the customer (my wifes parents), and one for other customers.

So, if you have such a router and provide (activate) the second WLAN you can login to the second WLAN everywhere else where it is activated/provided. By using your own customer credentials.

By this Telekom creates a LARGE WLAN network, but no one told that.

It was immediately deactivated!

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by Holger

Simple, dont use public network.




My wifes parents got a new router from Telekom. Setup and running.
I was looking into the settings some weeks ago and discovered that the router has TWO WLANs, one for the customer (my wifes parents), and one for other customers.

So, if you have such a router and provide (activate) the second WLAN you can login to the second WLAN everywhere else where it is activated/provided. By using your own customer credentials.

By this Telekom creates a LARGE WLAN network, but no one told that.

It was immediately deactivated!

Was at my brothers in FL and was doing some tweaking on his home network, found the exact same thing. Comcast IIRC.

Turned that **** right off.

[Holger]

German Telekom is bragging about launching the Germany-WLAN. Now I know what they mean!

[jyl]

The FBI is publicly contradicting its legal claim that the San Berdoo case is strictly about one iPhone 5C and no other. Now the director is before Congress saying this case will set a precedent for the government ordering Apple to crack more iPhones. This would not seem to help the government's case in the San Berdoo motion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/03/01/fbi-apple-bringing-fight-over-encryption-to-capitol-hill/

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Was at my brothers in FL and was doing some tweaking on his home network, found the exact same thing. Comcast IIRC.

Turned that **** right off.

This is why you don't use Comcast's equipment. I provide my own Cable Modems, firewalls and Wireless Routers...