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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by kibwen on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:26PM (#15250970)
Depends on how difficult it is to produce an automated system whereby one needs only plug an unlocked phone into a computer in order to hoover up all locally-stored messages, contacts, saved passwords, synced browser histories, etc. The agent themselves doesn't need to care, they can just be instructed to "unlock the phone, plug it in to this computer, wait until the progress bar finishes, hand phone back". Are you on Github? Is your Github password saved in your browser? Do you have commit access to any marginally important projects? God only knows who has commit access to those projects now. Considering this is HN, I imagine this is an attack vector that a lot of people here are particularly concerned about. Given how much code we use that's written by others, it ought to concern the rest of us as well. :)
Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by late2part on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:50PM (#15272600)
This is not an attack. This is iTunes. This is trivial to do.