Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests
by kabouseng on Thursday September 18, 2014 @02:18PM
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Please substantiate with a link.
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Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests
by function_seven on Thursday September 18, 2014 @05:35PM
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The baseband firmware is cyptographically signed by Apple (and would thus require their complicity in backdooring) and the A7 models have a so-called Secure Enclave, which handles the encryption and decryption of memory contents.
Link: http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_Feb14.p...
Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests
by kabouseng on Friday September 19, 2014 @03:38AM
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Thank you very much, I'll definitely read through the doc through the course of the day. But a cursory glance still does not mean that rogue software on the baseband cannot compromise your phone, but it is getting more and more difficult to place rogue software on the baseband.
"And would require Apple's complicity" - Or perhaps rather Qualcomms's...
Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests
by sigterm on Thursday September 18, 2014 @04:04PM
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Considering iPhone has their custom processor design, this information is most likely confidential. However, it isn't inconceivable that some sort of memory protection method similar to IOMMU can be added to the internal fabric to prevent baseband processors (or any other peripherals) from accessing arbitrary physical memory.