Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company
by pdimitar on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @10:41AM
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Security researchers aren't exactly Apple's target audience, just saying.
Possibly compromising security for everybody just so 0.05% of the users can be happy is not a realistic expectation.
Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company
by fastball on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:53PM
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Exactly. A much better idea would be to have "security researcher" phones that Apple could sell to such, which would be rooted and tracked.
Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company
by iamnothere on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @01:00PM
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How could you verify that these phones run the same setup as regular phones?
The only way to make companies fix bugs which may be difficult to find, expensive to fix, and potentially embarrassing is to make it easy to locate exploits on real hardware. Otherwise the only people with the resources to do this are government-backed entities like NSO Group, Vupen, etc, who somehow always ensure that exploits get into the hands of repressive governments.
Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company
by fastball on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @07:30PM
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It would literally be the same phone with the same software, but rooted.
Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company
by babypuncher on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:25PM
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Every iOS device gets cracked relatively quickly, there's nothing stopping security researchers from doing their work.
For the vast majority of users this isn't a concern or even a good idea.
Apple products have had plenty of bugs leading to security issues, and I'd rather make it easier for researchers to discover these.