The Bay Area German bar that brought down Apple’s famed iPhone security
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There’s actually a photo, taken as a joke, by Steve Wozniak you can find online. It shows him drinking a beer, holding an iPhone in the other hand, and he’s wearing a T-Shirt that reads: “I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.”
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/woz-has-fun-with-lea...
Thankfully, it appears Steve Jobs took his wrath out at Gizmodo than Powell.
My god. That site is comically unusable. There is just no way to read an their article in peace.
So when they, too, inevitably have to fold, let it be known, I tried.
Like 1999…
edit: it seems that the Americans get our ads too, ah sweet schadenfreude
Or, in the News following tab, click Edit, remove all “suggested by Siri” topics, and block low-quality channels. I blocked the National Review, WSJ, USA Today, and People Magazine and my feed got a lot better.
Or better yet, just don’t use their feed.
Trust is hard to gain and very easy to lose.
Are you also as dismissive of Newton because Einstein showed he wasn’t entirely correct?
And as far as BLM, I understand that people don’t want to tell their little Timmy that officer friendly, is less friendly to minorities and have always been.
Also the don’t-mask/mask thing was an outright lie. Huge mistake that gave nuts a foothold.
And yes I’m sure “centuries ago” when they didn’t even understand germ theory they knew about viruses and how to treat diseases using DNA sequencing and mRNA
For sites that I repeatedly visit, I pay for them. Substacks and local newspapers for example.
As a one-off if I can’t adblock or reader-mode, it ain’t worth my time.
Lurk more f.....
Site is clean as a whistle for me:
(zoomed all the way out so you can see the whole page:
https://i.imgur.com/I4EaG3A.png -
Edit: I appear to have “wooshed” the point… Sorry fam.
I also like this bit:
"Apple forced its own ban from the bar on Powell — though it doesn’t sound like that ban was enforced very strictly."
I wonder what that looked like.
I remember some sketchy details to the story that seem to have gone unmentioned but it has been a long time and I am very unclear on the specifics so I will not mention them here. Especially since Apple really cares about these kind of things.
Thought it a bit odd that one of the first things the bar owner did was email Steve Jobs. Like...why?
The XcodeGhost supply chain attack by the CIA infected a hundred million devices with malware. Quixun Zhaos chaos exploit chain took full control over iPhones from a drive by on a website and was used by china as part of the ugyhur genocide. And the cyberwar mercenary group NSO keeps targeting journalists and opposition around the world with what feels like an endless supply of exploits for apple devices.
But somehow the hype for the iPhone4 starting three month earlier than planned in 2010 is called the "the most infamous". Apple PR at it's best, telling people the worst that can happen is loosing a phone at a bar.
IMHO no one wants to be infamous, under the classical definition. Infamous people have a search warrant by the federal police. Infamous people are the ones your parents tell you not to interact with.
No matter how often the "no bad PR" mantra is spoken, Steve Wozniak isn't going to wear a t-shirt referencing what i would consider their most infamous security breach. He isn't gangster enough for a teardrop tattoo.
Something can’t be infamous (or regular famous) if nobody has heard of it, and that’s the issue people have with your claim.
It might be a “publicly disgracing” attack but that alone doesn’t make it infamous. It still has to be well known, and quite simply, the iPhone case is so well known that it’s practically impossible to beat.
And security protocols go back thousands of years. You can read about them in ancient literature,
Revealing the design was the security breach.