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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by spenvo on Thursday August 04, 2016 @03:41AM (#12224037)
Nice thought. The problem is that turning your iPhone off is the easiest way to secure it quickly and completely. Whether it's an overbearing TSA agent or police pullover -- if you want your data to be secure (password protected vs fingerprint protected) you can always just turn off.

Anything iCloud-initiated does not benefit from the protection of the secure enclave on the device--so with your idea, you'd be opening a denial-of-privacy attack vector

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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by sleepychu on Thursday August 04, 2016 @04:44AM (#12224272)
What about self-ransomware? "All the data on this is encrypted and there is absolutely no way to flash it without the secret key that is stored in the apple cloud."
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by intoverflow2 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @09:39AM (#12225386)
It already has that with FileVault
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by kaybe on Thursday August 04, 2016 @04:56AM (#12224304)
Is that technically possible when facing a sufficiently determined adversary?
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by sleepychu on Thursday August 04, 2016 @08:54AM (#12225146)
I don't understand your question. Do you mean is it possible to prevent flashing of iPhones that Apple have ransomwared?
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by kaybe on Thursday August 04, 2016 @02:23PM (#12227467)
Yes. Is it possible in principle to prevent flashing without bricking the device? How would one do that on a deep level? I don't think it can be done on computers, but am happy to be corrected.
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by kkarakk on Sunday August 07, 2016 @07:39AM (#12241799)
not without boobytrapping your phone by adding capacitors etc that would shortcircuit it in case flashing hardware was connected to it
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