The encryption keys and protection mechanism are hardware based, not software based. The bytes in storage are useless without the phone's exact hardware. Unless they try and brute force the encryption. How many millions of years would that take?
There is only a 4 digit pin, which means it only has 10,000 passwords to try. If you have hardware access, then you control the storage, RAM, etc. No excuse why a lab could not image the drive bit by bit and just try combinations until the correct one is found. Even if it is set to self-destruct after 10 tries, loading up the storage image basically resets the clock. Tedious perhaps, but not impossible and won't take till the end of the time to crack such an easy code. Is there something more to the phone that isn't being published out to the public?
Notably absent among the services to provide The Interview is Apple.
Actually, most notably not in the list is Netflix. The number one streaming service on the planet doesn't have it. That's the big story here.
I agree, none of the streaming services will have it (Netflix, Hulu, etc) So I expect that the piratebay + clones will have this after the first person to purchase it.
I haven't analyzed it but I bet a lot of people have. Nobody's published a flaw yet.
I thought the one I brought up years ago would still be there, but I'll have to go back and check. I found a flaw I called "reverse time attack" which I believe to this day, each version of bitcoin still has to patch each release for. It may have been lost in the site transactions, forum transitions, but if the information has become lost over time, then I need to post it up in a more permanent place as to this day no solution exist yet.
As promised, I've put all the information into one place. Find the information about the flaw here: Bitcoin Reverse Time Attack
I haven't analyzed it but I bet a lot of people have. Nobody's published a flaw yet.
I thought the one I brought up years ago would still be there, but I'll have to go back and check. I found a flaw I called "reverse time attack" which I believe to this day, each version of bitcoin still has to patch each release for. It may have been lost in the site transactions, forum transitions, but if the information has become lost over time, then I need to post it up in a more permanent place as to this day no solution exist yet.
Go Litecoin, or Namecoin, or something else that will become a competitor to Bitcoin.
In the end, it's all virtual currency anyways, even the US Dollar (which is a fiat currency, and thus essentially virtual.)
Add Timekoin in there as well. It takes a total opposite approach to digital currency that minimizes CPU usage while providing a lot better protection than Bitcoin in terms of double spending and wild spikes in prices.
It might be the case that this Ponzi scheme couldn't have been conducted using (say) US$ because of financial regulation. Lack of financial regulation attracts some people to Bitcoin -- but look how it can bite.
The currency used does not matter. Being digital currency or real $$, Ponzi schemes still happen all the time. The latest large Ponzi just blew up a few weeks ago that used real money to the tune of a $600 million collapse. Here is just a recent story about it. http://myfox8.com/2012/08/17/62643/
So Navy's of tomorrow will have their ships covered in mirrors. Now, someone tell me why this won't work... because it seems like a really obvious way to divert a laser beam.
Because a mirror does not reflect 100% of the energy, some will be absorbed, thus the laser will eventually burn through it. Super efficient mirrors are easy counter anyway, just lob some "buckshot" at the target to shatter the mirrors, then burn the ship up with the laser
nohup rm -fr /&