What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?

Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday November 07, 2021 @01:30AM (#29137062)

They fought unlocking secure enclave. That has no bearing on active tracking. Apple is also under the eight ball with the threat of anti-trust regulation and are more incentivised than ever to make deals that turn down the heat on questionable business practices. They lost all credibility as a "security focused" company with their crazy on-device image scanning scheme.

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Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by Thorrez on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:13PM (#29145838)

I don't think the iPhone used in that case had a secure enclave. I think that iPhone was the iPhone 5C[1], which had an A6[2], while the secure enclave wasn't released until A7[3].

Wikipedia has the terms the FBI demanded, and to me they look like demands relating to software directly in iOS, not some other security chip[4].

>Apple is also under the eight ball with the threat of anti-trust regulation and are more incentivised than ever to make deals that turn down the heat on questionable business practices.

Questionable business practices impacting competition/monopoly, sure. But I don't see how a backdoor would make anyone think Apple has less of a monopoly.

>They lost all credibility as a "security focused" company with their crazy on-device image scanning scheme.

Apple publicly announced that in advance. That's different from a secret backdoor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5C

[3] https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Secure_Enclave

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...

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