FBI: "Si Google y Apple no decodifican información de usuarios, les forzaremos"

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Es interesanrte la cantidad de articulos que han generado tipos como esos tratando de pintar un escenario donde quien quiere privacidad y seguridad es mas que todo un criminal.

Este articulo explico a grosso modo el sistema de Apple (y que en la siguiente version Google hara algo parecido, pero de Android no se los detalles)

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/fbi-is-...ption-is-good/

The only actions that have undermined the rule of law are the government’s deceptive and secret mass surveillance programs.

Apple’s new operating system, iOS 8, makes two changes to the encryption of data on the device that dramatically increases the security of those data. First, it now encrypts and passcode protects virtually all data on the device .... Secondly, and most importantly, it virtually eliminates the possibility that the encrypted data can be unlocked without the passcode. Earlier operating systems allowed Apple to unlock any device with a key that it controlled. But in iOS 8, Apple has essentially thrown away the key so it can’t access the data anymore. Hackers, cyber criminals, and thieves can’t access it. And governments, foreign and domestic, can’t access it either.

Como lo hace? Basicamente la llave de desencriptacion se almacena en hardware y el software *no tiene acceso a ella*. Asi que para poder tenerla, abria que destripar fisicamente el aparato y leer del chip directamente.


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Un excelente articulo que habla de este tema, y como se enlaza a la guerra anterior sobre encriptacion (recuerdan que no se puede exportar software a ciertos paises que usen encriptacion?) y porque las "soluciones" que plantean los gobiernos y algunos individuos maliciosos/ignorantes no sirven:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archiv...ncrypti_1.html

Ah, but that's the thing: You can't build a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through. Encryption protects against cybercriminals, industrial competitors, the Chinese secret police and the FBI. You're either vulnerable to eavesdropping by any of them, or you're secure from eavesdropping from all of them.