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Monday, May 11, 2015
Apple No We Can’t Read Your iMessages And We Don’t Want to Either
Touting its commitment to user privacy in the wake of the NSA surveillance scandal earlier this year, Apple said that the end-to-end encryption protecting its iMessage instant-messenger service is so secure that even the company itself cannot decrypt it. But, on Thursday, security outfit QuarksLab disputed that claim, arguing that Apple could intercept iMessage communications if it wanted to.
“Apple can read your iMessages if they choose to, or if they are required to do so by a government order,” QuarksLab said in a white paper presented Thursday at the Hack in the Box conference.
Apple disagrees — vehemently. We’ll get to that in a minute.
QuarksLab research is far too labyrinthine to summarize here, but the gist of it is this: Because Apple controls the keys used to encrypt iMessages between sender and the recipient, it could theoretically conduct a so-called “man-in-the-middle attack” on the two, making sender and recipient believe they are chatting directly and securely with one another, when they aren’t — and reviewing their communications.
“As Apple claims, there is end-to-end encryption,” QuarksLab explains. “The weakness is in the key infrastructure as it is controlled by Apple: They can change a key anytime they want, thus read the content of our iMessages.” QuarksLab, it should be noted, has no evidence that Apple does or has done this. It’s presentation begins with this explicit statement: “What we are not saying: Apple reads your iMessages.
What we are saying: Apple can read your iMessages if they choose to, or if they are required to do so by a government order.”
QuarksLab
QuarksLab’s research has so far been well-received by the security community, with cryptography experts saying that the concepts on which it is based are sound.
“I think what their presentation demonstrates is that it’s very difficult, but not impossible, for an outside attacker to intercept messages if they’re able to control key aspects of the network,” independent security researcher Ashkan Soltani told AllThingsD. “Probably not something that just any actor can do, but definitely something a state/government actor or Apple themselves could do, if motivated.”
But Apple insists it is not so motivated. And it stands by its June claims about iMessage’s security. Apple says that QuarksLab’s theory is just that — a theory, and one that would require a rearchitecting of iMessage for it ever to be a threat in the real world.
“iMessage is not architected to allow Apple to read messages,” said Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said in a statement to AllThingsD. “The research discussed theoretical vulnerabilities that would require Apple to re-engineer the iMessage system to exploit it, and Apple has no plans or intentions to do so.”
In other words, iMessage was built to thwart attacks, not abet them.
That is Apple’s publicly stated intent, anyway. As we’ve learned from the NSA surveillance scandal this year, there are some actors out there who might prefer iMessage to work just the way QuarksLab describes. So perhaps in today’s world iMessage’s encryption is only as good as your trust in Apple.
Said Soltani, “We’ve recently seen indication of companies like Skype or Lavabit being forced to enable interception capabilities in their system, so it would be naive to think that Apple wasn’t at least approached by the government at some point.”
Data source: AllThingsD (By John Paczkowski)
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Dolby Digital for Asus Zenfone NO Root
Resource:
Instructions:
- Download Dolby Digital and Copy to SDCard/Internal Memory
- Install it and wait untill complete and choose done
- Go to Settings>Sound>Music Effect and choose dolby digital
- Now You can enjoy Dolby Digital Equalizer in Music app (Music>Settings>Fine Audio Tunning).
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Huawei Confirms Ascend P7 With Sapphire Display Says No to Tizen
Huaweis recently unveiled flagship smartphone, the Ascend P7, has been confirmed to receive sapphire screen treatment by a company official. The company also detailed its plans for Tizen and Windows Phone.
Yu Chengdong, Device Chairman of Huawei has teased an image of the Ascend P7 with sapphire screen on his Weibo account tipping that the handset might be revealed at this years IFA event in early September. The company has already sent invites for a September 4 event.
Chengdong on the Weibo post (as per Gforgames) said, "The company will release the Huawei Ascend P7 in a more exclusive flavour boasting sapphire display." The Huawei executive also shared an image of the smartphone on the post.
Chengdong in an interview had previously admitted that Huawei was testing the Ascend P7 with the premium sapphire display. Additionally, Engadget citing a company representative has claimed that the Ascend P7 with sapphire screen will go on sale via online channels in China initially, with the first batch of units expected in September, and the second by November.
Its worth pointing out that Apple has been also rumoured to use the costly sapphire as a display material on the next generation iPhone. However, it is yet to be seen whether Apples iPhone device sporting sapphire display will be a reality or not next month.
As for specifications, the Ascend P7 comes with 5-inch full-HD display; a quad-core HiSilicon Kirin 910T processor clocked at 1.8GHz; 2GB of RAM; a 13-megapixel rear camera, and and 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It is being speculated that the new Huawei Ascend P7 with sapphire screen will come with the same set of hardware specifications.
As we mentioned earlier, the Chinese handset major has already confirmed its presence at IFA as the company sent invitations for a pre-IFA 2014 event to be held on September 4 in Berlin, Germany. The company is expected to launch the Ascend Mate 3 phablet at the event, alongside a new Honor-branded smartphone.
Additionally, Huaweis head of consumer business group, Richard Yu, in an interview with WSJ, has revealed the companys intentions for Tizen and Windows Phone OS.
(Also see: Huawei CMO on why the company doesnt like Windows Phone)
Yu was quoted saying (via Gigaom), "We have tried using the Windows Phone OS. But it has been difficult to persuade consumers to buy a Windows phone. It wasnt profitable for us. We were losing money for two years on those phones. So for now weve decided to put any releases of new Windows phones on hold. We have worries about Android being the only option, but we have no choice."
On being asked about whether Huawei will make Tizen-based smartphones, Yu noted Tizen has "no chance to be successful." He further revealed that Huawei probably will not launch a Tizen-based smartphone.
Notably, Samsungs first Tizen smartphone, the Samsung Z, which was unveiledearlier this year, was in July postponed indefinitely by the South Korean giant.
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