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It was just an example how you could detach the secret and the device made by Apple. I'm sure there are better ideas for that. The way this is configured now Apple can decrypt any phone, which voids the argument made in the OP. But I can understand why this will be the unpopular opinion here.

> Apple doesn't use scrypt. Their approach is to add a 256-bit device-unique secret key called a UID to the mix, and to store that key in hardware where it's hard to extract from the phone. Apple claims that it does not record these keys nor can it access them.

Technically, this is where it breaks down. As in "Trust me I don't store the keys."

If that hypothesis is true(they don't store these keys), then they'll have a hard time breaking your encryption indeed. But you must trust Apple at that point.

If there was a way to buy an anonymously replaceable chip with this cryptographic key in it and replace it on the phone like a SIM, then we'd be much closer to stating "Apple can't decrypt your phone".

I did that years ago as well. Soon as I read somewhere that Stallman meant Emacs to be his only shell and do everything in it(?), this was my first thought.

Sure, but this one came out of the Apple box, purchased in an Apple store in the USA

Most of the awesome software running the WWW is running in tightly sealed compartments, hidden away from our sight.

Imagine being able to see Google's search engine source code. That'd be truly something.

Unfortunately market forces are still pretty much in control of much of the world's most interesting software.

> Maybe all the time I spend looking for better ways to do things is keeping me from, well, doing things.

Eureka!

People are complicating their lives just to decomplicate later. It's a vicious cycle designed to keep the market flowing. Needs are created in real time, we don't even know why we need certain things any more. We live under the anxiety created by the excess of excess.

With 99% of the so called "life hacks", we're just trying to eliminate a problem that we created by another "life hack". Oh a nice trick to keep the iPhone doing X? Cool! Why did I need X in the first place again??? I don't remember. And the iPhone...why did I buy it? I just play a silly game and use the contacts list most of the time.

There is a:

99% chance you don't need your email available 24x7

99% chance you don't need a new car

99% chance you don't need a cell phone turned on 24x7

99% chance that 99% of the shit ton of information you gather daily will be thrown out of your brain in just a few weeks

99% chance you don't need a stupid GPS guiding what you do, where you drive

99.99% chance you don't really need a new iPad, iThis, iThat, HTC that, whatever

99% chance you don't need the extra U$ 1000 on your sallary

99% chance you didn't need to be tweeting or checking your email while there was a nice person sitting next to you while you waited at the airport

99% chance you don't need to be all you can be better richer faster more

This is why the world is turning into a bunch of control freaky, unhappy, lonely, greedy and unhealthy bunch of individuals.

I discovered this one day. I said fuck it and went for a walk at the park. Since then, I've done the same thing daily and I don't miss the other 1567 things I used to do on the Internet instead of having a silly walk at the park.

And this is in Scotland. Can you imagine what it is like in the poorest countries in the world? This is why we need a permanent, open Internet on all nations, because as soon as the truth comes out, someone does something about it.

This was absolutely expected. The Nasdaq delays probably had about zero impact on the IPO results but you know how it goes...someone lost money on Facebook paper and they're bound to make it back speculating on the courts...

Thanks for your feedback. Yes, I have been trying with the bank for the past 2 months. Apparently it takes a while.

The intuit here is not only to try to receive the U$ 300 back but also to let Yahoo! and others here on HN know that this shouldn't be happening.

> But how about if Google collects its OWN information about me. Does that fall under habeas data?

Anyone whom you suspect has data on you can be subpoenaed to give you, and only you, the data they have about you. The government included, even spy agencies - you have the right to request your personal information from any other person, corporation or governmental agency.