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Re:FBI’s Comey Concedes Mistake Was Made Over iPhone in San ... by xerxe-sans-s on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @09:19PM (#11207711)
So would a signature check on the trusted layer against a signature generated with the device id (you'd need to distribute a different binary against every device id) permit the generation of an OS image that could only run on a single device?
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Re:FBI’s Comey Concedes Mistake Was Made Over iPhone in San ... by cbsmith on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @03:46AM (#11208810)
It would, in theory. If there weren't any catches with this approach though... Apple could have avoided having itself in this position in the first place.
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