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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by boznz on Monday September 11, 2017 @08:48PM (#15223860)
IOS = Closed Source, Therefore only their word there is no backdoor
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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by kasey_junk on Monday September 11, 2017 @09:52PM (#15224145)
This ignores essentially all reverse engineering techniques that are required to find actual backdoors & is not something security professionals largely believe.
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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by nemothekid on Monday September 11, 2017 @09:01PM (#15223934)
So is every other phone on the market.
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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by paulddraper on Monday September 11, 2017 @09:20PM (#15224026)
No. There are open source Android phones.

There are no open source ios phones

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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by abritinthebay on Monday September 11, 2017 @09:50PM (#15224141)
Yeah? The baseband and chip ROMs are open source? Really?
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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by LeoNatan25 on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:13PM (#15224228)
Or the proprietary kernel patches and binary blob drivers?
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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by paulddraper on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:10PM (#15224525)
If your point is that there are partially closed source Android distros, I agree with you.
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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by abritinthebay on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:55PM (#15240776)
more that there are no open source Android phones. Just "partially open source" Android phones.
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