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Source? That would be very shocking.

by copper-float 3y ago

wyager 3y ago
Would it? Apple crippled iCloud image encryption for years at the request of federal LEAs.
- _georgesim_ 3y ago
  Can you share a source for this please? Not finding anything useful.
  - wyager 3y ago
    I have no idea if anyone has covered it. It's industry knowledge. Source: me I figured it would be generally known at this point, especially with the whole perceptual hash debacle (intended to satisfy LEAs despite the plan to finally enable image encryption). I'm not sure what the internal politics looked like after the perceptual hash snitch got axed - my friends who would know quit Apple by then.
  - asldkfjaslkdj 3y ago
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Spooky23 3y ago
Why? The FBI pitched a fit over access to a shooter’s phone in the press a few years ago, then stopped. Now, you have a multiple products on the market that can crack passcodes by utilizing flaws that allow you to brute force PINs, which are by default 6 digit numbers. (Despite most guidance demanding 8)
- rasz 3y ago
  Cellebrite UFED Cellphone Forensic Extraction Device Teardown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLGGCXH9MQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLGGCXH9MQ UFED, get it? its right in the name :] Video has little demonstration with older phones, one click bypass for all passcodes.
halJordan 3y ago
Despite the "hurr, durr; I'm cynical" responses, you're not insane, it would in fact be shocking.
rasz 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th... >Later provision was added to allow export of 56-bit encryption if the exporter promised to add "key recovery" backdoors by the end of 1998. First SSL crippled to 40-bit RC2/RC4 First 802.11 wireless protocol WEP "64" key length shortened to 40 bits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1 vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/2 >to allow the British secret service to eavesdrop more easily. The British proposed a key length of 48 bits, while the West Germans wanted stronger encryption to protect against East German spying, so the compromise became a key length of 54 bits >Documents leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013 state that the NSA "can process encrypted A5/1"

Source? That would be very shocking.

wyager 3y ago

Would it? Apple crippled iCloud image encryption for years at the request of federal LEAs.

_georgesim_ 3y ago
Can you share a source for this please? Not finding anything useful.
- wyager 3y ago
  I have no idea if anyone has covered it. It's industry knowledge. Source: me I figured it would be generally known at this point, especially with the whole perceptual hash debacle (intended to satisfy LEAs despite the plan to finally enable image encryption). I'm not sure what the internal politics looked like after the perceptual hash snitch got axed - my friends who would know quit Apple by then.
- asldkfjaslkdj 3y ago
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Spooky23 3y ago

Why? The FBI pitched a fit over access to a shooter’s phone in the press a few years ago, then stopped. Now, you have a multiple products on the market that can crack passcodes by utilizing flaws that allow you to brute force PINs, which are by default 6 digit numbers. (Despite most guidance demanding 8)

rasz 3y ago
Cellebrite UFED Cellphone Forensic Extraction Device Teardown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLGGCXH9MQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLGGCXH9MQ UFED, get it? its right in the name :] Video has little demonstration with older phones, one click bypass for all passcodes.

halJordan 3y ago

Despite the "hurr, durr; I'm cynical" responses, you're not insane, it would in fact be shocking.

rasz 3y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th... >Later provision was added to allow export of 56-bit encryption if the exporter promised to add "key recovery" backdoors by the end of 1998. First SSL crippled to 40-bit RC2/RC4 First 802.11 wireless protocol WEP "64" key length shortened to 40 bits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1 vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/2 >to allow the British secret service to eavesdrop more easily. The British proposed a key length of 48 bits, while the West Germans wanted stronger encryption to protect against East German spying, so the compromise became a key length of 54 bits >Documents leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013 state that the NSA "can process encrypted A5/1"