Re:iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means ...
by rphlx on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:23PM
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In most circumstances it's not clear to me that a >48 hour timeout is really a major impediment to law enforcement in a major metro. Of course, if they arrest like 10,000 people on the same day from a major protest or something it could create a capacity problem, but otherwise it seems like more of an irritant - a new time constraint - rather than a truly effective countermeasure to vulns in their LI/USB stack.
I would be much more impressed if they allowed users to wholesale disable all non-charging functionality.
Re:iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means ...
by saagarjha on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @06:14PM
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The reason why this is annoying for law enforcement is because it effectively shuts down many forms of brute-force password cracking attacks, which take time to perform.
I would be much more impressed if they allowed users to wholesale disable all non-charging functionality.