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Re:Apple’s Privacy Fight Tests Relationship with White House by dclowd9901 on Saturday February 27, 2016 @02:59PM (#11188211)
> The backdoor exists on new hardware, too; the firmware of the secure enclave can be updated in place by Apple without expunging key material.

Can you point me to any material documentation of this fact? Because I've been following this whole thing very closely and there's not been one word of this being fact as far as I've seen.

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Re:Apple’s Privacy Fight Tests Relationship with White House by frankacter on Saturday February 27, 2016 @09:41PM (#11189547)
"I have no clue where they got the idea that changing SPE firmware will destroy keys. SPE FW is just a signed blob on iOS System Part" - John Kelley (Embedded Security @ Apple)

https://twitter.com/johnhedge/status/699882614212075520

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Re:Apple’s Privacy Fight Tests Relationship with White House by dclowd9901 on Saturday February 27, 2016 @11:21PM (#11189830)
Huh, found this reply only moments later down the stream:

http://i.imgur.com/meUjRmQ.png

Seems even the great John Kelley doesn't seem to know what the fuck is going on.

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