Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 107
I thought if your iPhone was PIN-code protected it would use that to lock the Keychain, no?
I thought if your iPhone was PIN-code protected it would use that to lock the Keychain, no?
And trying to bruteforce the PIN code would cause the device to get wiped / locked?
I'm asking, because if this is not the case, then bruteforcing the Keychain might be trivial assuming most people use 4-5 number PINs...
So no, not quite the same. In case a device is stolen, the attacker would need to have access to the user's password or PIN (I think the iPhone encrypts the device's whole storage anyway if it is PIN-protected, so you can't just copy the keychain database off the device and try to bruteforce it).
Considering this ships as default with the OS, it's inexcusable to not use it. Morons.
See below for more details:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Security/Conceptual/keychainServConcepts/iPhoneTasks/iPhoneTasks.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keychain_(Mac_OS)
What on Earth are you talking about? Scotland is part of the UK. David Cameron is the UK Prime Minister. And you're telling me he has no grounds to interfere? I must seriously be missing something here.
Yes you are seriously missing something, a fundamental understanding of British politics. Criminal justice is devolved to the Scottish Government, a reasonably autonomous part of the United Kingdom. The prime minister (i.e. the executive branch of the federal structure. Yes, I know it's not really federal in the true sense of the word but it's close enough for an analogy in this case) can no more directly interfere with court decisions taken by a devolved judiciary than your (federal) President can interfere with decisions taken by a State judiciary. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_devolution#Scotland for more details if interested. Checks and balances? We have them over here too you know.
The difficulty in setting these things up usually comes when you ask, "Well what if I want to do something off-the-wall and whacky?"
Which the VAST majority of users of a device such as this couldn't care less about - they just want a couple of services (AFP/SMB, DNS, Mail and basic Web) to work, pretty much out of the box - OS X Server is ideal for this.
If you DO want to go beyond the basic settings, there is (on Leopard server at least) an "Advanced" settings mode (which is pretty much identical to the Server Admin interface on Tiger). Since this is OS X, if even the Advanced settings don't let you do what you want, just open up Terminal.app and start hacking config files - the point is, the vast majority of users don't need to or want to do this level of customisation.
I started off in the PC world with a 486DX/33, with 256K or RAM and a 20Mb hard drive. Did it work? Sure. Did it work well? Sure. I upgraded to 1Mb RAM and a 40Mb hard drive (which was ungodly expensive) to run my 3 line BBS
Seriously? 256 KB of RAM in a 486DX? I think my 1990 model 486DX had 256 KB of L2 cache. Are you making this up?
I think I read somewhere that the entire Scottish economy would have collapsed due to the RBS bail out, so you might want to revise this particular "busted myth".
Ah yes, here it is: Vince Cable: 'RBS would break Scotland'
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