[Cryptography] EFF amicus brief in support of Apple

Ray Dillinger bear at sonic.net
Mon Mar 7 21:08:29 EST 2016



On 03/06/2016 11:03 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 08:38:38 -0800 Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net>
> wrote:
>> The current state of the art is that providing secure systems
>> for people who do not participate in working to secure their
>> systems is extremely hard.
> 
> Is it? Most users of the "walled gardens" people around here are very
> fond of attacking seem to have fairly good security.

Ah.  Yes.  By "Systems" I meant - and should have said -
"general purpose computers."

If instead you just want a media player, that's relatively
easy to secure.  Software-as-media with no ability to create
anything?  Sure, we can secure that.  But it's not a generative
system.  It's not something that can give rise to anything new
or be put to different uses by different people.

I had a smart phone for a while.  It was boring.  I let the
contract lapse to see exactly how useless it became without
the provider.  Yep, it was that useless.  Didn't even retain
access to the things I'd told it to store locally, which
pissed me off.  It's still around here somewhere probably;
I haven't taken it to the thrift store yet.


				Bear


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