Trusted by whom? I don't think there's any requirement that the purchaser of the device trust the "trusted" data extractor. IIUC it could become trusted before the customer ever received the device, or anytime it's in for service.
So this *probably* means that J. Random Hacker can't access the information. If the assertion is true. It doesn't say anything about Apple, their employees, or anyone they share information with...transitivly.
Unfortunately, no, I wouldn't "expect people to be more sensible than that, especially in the post-Snowden era", even though this actually isn't the post-Snowden era. He's still around, and still occasionally releasing new tid-bits.
I normally expect people to be short-sighted, and to have little memory of history. I regret that I'm rarely disappointed.
Not sure about that particular case, but there are some legal requirements that, I believe, entail controls that are not user controlable. Things like frequency, signal encoding, etc. Those seem liike reasonable constraints, so long as we aren't using spread spectrum, which, IIUC, is illegal.
Given that, modem isolation is probably the just and reasonable approach to take.
Has the problem been fixed? If not, then it's still reasonable information to share.
And nobody has claimed that the problem has been fixed.
The problem is that the laws that already exist aren't enforced. It's a secondary problem that they are so written that it's relatively easy to weasel around them, but even the existing laws aren't enforced, so adding new laws (that aren't enforced) wouldn't do any good.
One that keeps working when they change versions?
There actually are LOTS of components in a position to do that. You could even run a network monitoring app. But the browser is one highly visible one that most people already have installed.
ummmm.... Isn't that what I said? That society is a way to change what fittest means?
" I guess we're going to find out how much of that system we can destroy until we ourselves go extinct, or figure out a way to exist outside of the food web. Remember, just because you don't care about some little tree frog somewhere doesn't mean that the symbiotic and inter-connected nature of the system doesn't care.
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Wow you see this is what makes me crazy.
1. humans are not destroying the system. Changing yes but not destroying. The ecosystem of earth seems very resistant to destruction and no Place on earth is completely lifeless.
2. No the interconnected system doesn't "care". If you are not religious you need to live in a reality that nothing outside of humans and a few other higher animals care about anything.
I agree. But to be honest Darwin's theory of evolution pretty much proves that biggest jerk wins. Society is seems to be humans way of saying that we are going to choose what fittest means. AKA it is the anti jerk force.
Work continues in this area. -- DEC's SPR-Answering-Automaton