government – Official TechtalkRadio Blog https://blog.techtalkradio.com The Blog for the TechtalkRadio Show Sun, 13 Sep 2015 18:22:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 63714750 (i)Phones and security… https://blog.techtalkradio.com/iphones-and-security/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=iphones-and-security https://blog.techtalkradio.com/iphones-and-security/#respond Sun, 13 Sep 2015 18:22:29 +0000 http://blog.techtalkradio.com/?p=6029 Read More]]> During our September 12 show, Justin mentioned an incident when an iPhone was hacked by a guy…I think this may be what he was referring to:

“Watch John McAfee hack a Fox News host’s phone live on air”


Relating to the issue of iPhone security, from an article in the New York Times:

…the Justice Department is engaged in a court dispute with another tech company, Microsoft…the company refused to comply…because the emails were stored on servers in Dublin.

…two types of encoding…end-to-end encryption, which Apple uses in its iMessage system and FaceTime, the video conversation system…

With Apple, the encryption and decryption is done by the phones at either end of the conversation; Apple does not keep copies of the message unless one of the users loads it into iCloud, where it is not encrypted…

The second type of encoding involves sophisticated encryption software on Apple and Android phones, which makes it all but impossible for anyone except the user of the phone to open stored content — pictures, contacts, saved text messages and more — without an access code…

 

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