Society need to decide what's more important, absolute total privacy for our personal devices, or the ability for the police to solve crimes like this. I think the scariest thing about that is...
Society need to decide what's more important, absolute total privacy for our personal devices, or the ability for the police to solve crimes like this. I think the scariest thing about that is there's really no inbetween, if we give cops the ability to get into these devices there's really nothing stopping them from doing that kind of thing anytime they want to; and I don't think anyone really trusts them to wield that kind of power responsibly. I guess you could try and limit to a very specific government org like the FBI, but there's no way it'd be safe with them.
I personally think that the negatives far outweigh the positives, there's really no world where the government has total power to break through privacy where things end up turning out ok.
Not only that, it also means that if the police can get into your device, other actors will also figure out how to abuse that same vector for malicious purposes.
I don't think anyone really trusts them to wield that kind of power responsibly. I
Not only that, it also means that if the police can get into your device, other actors will also figure out how to abuse that same vector for malicious purposes.
The phones were: all running iOS 18.0 all disconnected from cellular for some time One was in airplane mode, and another was in a Faraday cage. Yet, the police thought, hey, these phones are...
The phones were:
all running iOS 18.0
all disconnected from cellular for some time
One was in airplane mode, and another was in a Faraday cage. Yet, the police thought, hey, these phones are receiving a wireless signal to reboot.
They didn't think, these phones are running a new OS with a bug; nor did they think, this OS has an undisclosed internal timer that reboots the phone after being disconnected from cellular for a set amount of time. Instead, they jumped to, someone's trying to screw over our investigation.
I was getting a frequent springboard restart on my iPhone on iOS 18, but Face ID still worked, so this must be a different bug. But I'm definitely on board for a feature like this.
That is so absurdly funny. Anyways, it's a good idea and Apple should implement it.
Though the prospect of Apple implementing such a security measure seems interesting at first glance, it's also probably not what happened here.
In October of 2024, multiple users of iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max units reported that their devices kept restarting themselves for no apparent reason. This is a known issue that occurred during normal use and one that Apple fixed with the iOS 18.1 update.
That is so absurdly funny. Anyways, it's a good idea and Apple should implement it.
Society need to decide what's more important, absolute total privacy for our personal devices, or the ability for the police to solve crimes like this. I think the scariest thing about that is there's really no inbetween, if we give cops the ability to get into these devices there's really nothing stopping them from doing that kind of thing anytime they want to; and I don't think anyone really trusts them to wield that kind of power responsibly. I guess you could try and limit to a very specific government org like the FBI, but there's no way it'd be safe with them.
I personally think that the negatives far outweigh the positives, there's really no world where the government has total power to break through privacy where things end up turning out ok.
Not only that, it also means that if the police can get into your device, other actors will also figure out how to abuse that same vector for malicious purposes.
The phones were:
One was in airplane mode, and another was in a Faraday cage. Yet, the police thought, hey, these phones are receiving a wireless signal to reboot.
They didn't think, these phones are running a new OS with a bug; nor did they think, this OS has an undisclosed internal timer that reboots the phone after being disconnected from cellular for a set amount of time. Instead, they jumped to, someone's trying to screw over our investigation.
I was getting a frequent springboard restart on my iPhone on iOS 18, but Face ID still worked, so this must be a different bug. But I'm definitely on board for a feature like this.
That is so absurdly funny. Anyways, it's a good idea and Apple should implement it.
First time I feel like it’s appropriate to say it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Edit: Security experts seem to agree https://www.404media.co/apple-quietly-introduced-iphone-reboot-code-which-is-locking-out-cops/
Good.