It's also important to note that the anti-theft law is only intended to brick a device to prevent it from being used on another network without the owners consent. The software in no way gives the ability to unlock a phone already secured, only brick it.

Wish I didn't already use up my mod points.

Older devices have historically had more potential vulnerabilities to exploit than newer systems. I don't have this l the link on me right now but I believe that there was a court case about the legality of monitoring someone's phone based on the age of the device and its capabilities.

Le pagastes y prendiste?

Did he really think he'd get away with that after Edward Snowden's recent whistle blowing? More than anything the U.S. government would ensure the security of it's military vessels. He should have assumed - like the prince from zimbabwe offer - that it was just a scam.

If only apple hadn't stubbornly refused to look into NFC implementation, NFC would have already undergone its trial by fire.

This is why we can't have nice things.

I think the answer lies in figuring out how to increase throughput on bitmessage networks.

It's like when you see something at a store that's discounted, you don't know why you would ever need it but the discount makes it appealing. In this case it would appear that people want to keep their discount/liberty/privacy.

Concerning the likelihood as to whether or not it would matter to anyone personally or allow the culprit to be identified: Most hardware keyloggers leave no personally identifiable information aside from scannable memory partitions however, in order to access those partitions you need to know a key combo. Without the key combo...you might as well have nothing, you also have to be aware that it is a keylogger in the first place before anything else. Who honestly checks their usb/ps2 ports more than once a week every week for the occasional tinkering?