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The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model In Existence
nospam wrote:
changing IMEI numbers, that's illegal. Nospam's utter lack of credibility is astounding. What you seem to forget so easily is that we've had this discussion in spades in the past, where, on Android at least, it's trivial to automatically change your reported IMEI number on the fly, and where it's /not/ illegal in most of the world, and, even where it is illegal (e.g., in the UK), something like 3 people have been convicted in something like a dozen years, where even the authors of the bill (whatever they call a law in Parliment) said very clearly it was simply a /symbolic/ political gesture (aka, a cheap political trick). Thread: IMEI number URL: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp...o/lxVIGEX5AgAJ Snippet: Mr. Denham, Hansard, Mobile Telephones (Re-programming) Bill [Lords], House of Commons Debate, 22 July 2002 vol 389 cc706-28, column 711 ( http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/c...020722_HOC_226 ): |
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In article , ultred
ragnusen wrote: changing IMEI numbers, that's illegal. Nospam's utter lack of credibility is astounding. What you seem to forget so easily is that we've had this discussion in spades in the past, where, on Android at least, it's trivial to automatically change your reported IMEI number on the fly, trivial or not (and it's not), it's still illegal. it's fraud. end of story. your attempts to rationalize illegal activities is noted. |
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nospam wrote:
trivial or not (and it's not), it's still illegal. it's fraud. end of story. Again, your credibility is worthless to you. In addition, your memory is about as good as Bill Clintons, as we've many times discussed the elements (often 5) of fraud (depending on the type of law involved), /all/ of which must be present, in order for an act to be fraud. Anyone here with real-world experience changing your IMEI on Android? https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp...M/9XQhY2WRAgAJ Simply changing your IMEI isn't fraud in /any/ country in the world, and even where the act of changing an IMEI is considered fraud, it's just a cheap political trick which we have proven in the past even the originators of the law openly admit that all they wanted to do was 'send a message' but where, as I recall, essentially zero /successful/ prosecutions resulted in a dozen years in force. your attempts to rationalize illegal activities is noted. Your credibility is worthless to you, as your statement that it's illegal is patently false in almost the entire world, and even where it is illegal, the law was never intended to be anything but a symbolic gesture ... Worse, you have absolutely no idea what constitutes fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud http://www.houston-opinions.com/law-fraud.html https://quizlet.com/19041431/5-eleme...d-flash-cards/ https://www.reference.com/government...1758ac1eb7d339 etc. All of which have the same essential elements, depending on the type of law involved and the jurisdiction, and where changing the IMEI is /never/ going to be fraud any more than changing your underwear constitutes rape. |
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ultred ragnusen wrote:
Simply changing your IMEI isn't fraud in /any/ country in the world, and even where the act of changing an IMEI is considered fraud, it's just a cheap political trick which we have proven in the past even the originators of the law openly admit that all they wanted to do was 'send a message' but where, as I recall, essentially zero /successful/ prosecutions resulted in a dozen years in force. Correction due to haste in responding ... http://www.houston-opinions.com/law-fraud.html Change: even where the act of changing an IMEI is considered fraud To: even where the act of changing an IMEI is considered illegal |
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 18:02:39 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote: Davoud wrote: This conversation entirely misses the point. As I have pointed out, the "threat" does not come from the US government, which is utterly uninterested in what you do on-line. You bring up a valid point, which is that the US Government is probably one of the minor threats we US citizens face - but it's one whom we /pay/ hard-earned dollars to /protect/ us, where they take the easy way out by surveiling us instead. Amazon, Facebook, Google, and myriad other commercial enterprises, on the other hand, are very much interested in what you are doing on-line and they have the means of tracking you. True that. Again, the weak link in /all/ consumer mobile devices is the same in this case in that Amazon isn't ever going to go frontal with a brute-force attack on nospam's vaunted encryption algorithm, which forms the imaginary basis of his entire belief system. Got a medical condition and using the Internet to learn more about it? Noted. Interested in buying a car? Noted. Traveling? Location and dates noted.* In fact, anything and everything that could conceivably enable a commercial enterprise make a few pennies from your personal information is noted. True dat. Everything is tied together by the commercial aggregators, such that the metadata /is/ the data, where, again, I simply posit that, despite the brand X marketing mantra that nospam loves to spew, /all/ consumer-grade mobile devices suffer from the same set of weak links. You keep saying that but I'm not sure that you are entirely correct. All of Qualcomm's more advanced processors make use of embedded hardware to protect against side channel and other attacks. I believe Apple may employ their own hardware for similar protection. Qualcom are still selling their lower grade processors so it is inevitable that there are many devices out there which are relatively unprotected. But it's not on a list under your name that someone prints out and has fun reading; printer paper is not sold in 1000km rolls. The data is in a virtually instantaneous computer-to-computer transaction in which an intermediary enables targeted ads on your Internet-connected devices. True that. And, worse, the data is /stored/ somewhere, where it makes a juicy cache for someone /else/ to steal. As I recall, even your debug logs to Microsoft were being intercepted and stored, and sifted through for data such as your Ethernet MAC address (I'd have to look that one up). Hence, I posit, the weak link in /all/ consumer-grade computing devices is the same, despite brand X's admittedly obvious attempt to make it's loyal but extremely gullible customers believe that a frontal brute-force attack is the main danger. A few days ago I googled air fares to London. Within *seconds* web pages that I visited were peppered with ads for airlines, rental cars, and hotels. True that. The solution is difficult but it's like the solution to the most common cause of brake judder - which isn't to change the hardware or software, but to change your browsing habits (e.g., VPN, proxy, nyms, headers, etc.). *Travel: if you have an E-ZPass or equivalent the issuer knows every time you go through a toll booth. For that matter, authorities know when you go through a toll booth even if you choose to use a slow lane; your license plate is read by a camera. Yup. I once got a ticket for being in a lane on i580 near Livermore that I didn't even know was a toll lane, as the highway must be 8 lanes wide on each side at that point, so I was just cruising along with no traffic visible in the photo at a non-commute time. The ticket was based merely off my license plate since there's no way I'd ever have those electronic payment systems in my vehicle. (I wonder, if you have one, can you easily turn it off? Or do you have to Faraday it?) How it is that the paranoids ignore commercial trackers and worry about a disinterested government, I do not know. But then, I'm not paranoid. I'm not sure whom you're speaking about, but I agree with all your sentiments, where you have to remember almost all the responses from me were regarding nospam's marketing-inspired allegation that Brand X phones are safer simply because of the expense of the frontal attack, which would only realistically be done by a gobment organization. Outside of nospam's obvious blind allegiance to Brand X marketing mantra, you'll see me exhibit the same sentiment you do, which is that the threat is from a wealth of well-funded sources, such that no phone line is any safer than any other. All you can do to combat this threat is constant "privacy hygiene", such as changing IP addresses, changing nyms and email addresses, changing IMEI numbers, changing locations, providing false data, changing your vernacular, etc. Privacy is expensive. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:18:42 -0500, JF Mezei
wrote: On 2018-03-01 10:47, Davoud wrote: That isn't true. It may be the case that technically secure communications devices are unavailable to the public. But I repeat that the security of your mobile phone is assured by the fact that no one is listening to you. There is a big difference between intercepting communications to/from your phone and hacking the phone to access your data or send your phone usage "live" to NSA&friends. NSA has widespread data collections that do collect anyone's communications, they just can't "target" a USA citizen (aka: do a search through the trove of data for a US citizens comms without FISA). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_surveillance to target your calls to grandma. It's ludicrous to think that they are monitoring you. This isn't a case of the government monitoring ME. It is a case of them collecting my communications in bulk, and when doing searches for something unreleated, my stuff might come up. If I make a joke about centrifuges in my basement to make a nuclear device, and this is collected, then someone doing a search for terrorists in USA planning to detonate nuke would pull up my joke. It is then up to an analyst to determine this is of no value and dismiss it. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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Davoud:
*Travel: if you have an E-ZPass or equivalent the issuer knows every time you go through a toll booth. For that matter, authorities know when you go through a toll booth even if you choose to use a slow lane; your license plate is read by a camera. ultred ragnusen: The ticket was based merely off my license plate since there's no way I'd ever have those electronic payment systems in my vehicle. (I wonder, if you have one, can you easily turn it off? Or do you have to Faraday it?) If you're not a paranoid conspiracy theorist you don't do anything with it; you just use it to make travel more convenient. All you can do to combat this threat is constant "privacy hygiene", such as changing IP addresses, changing nyms and email addresses, changing IMEI numbers, changing locations, providing false data, changing your vernacular, etc. If you're not a paranoid conspiracy theorist you don't do any of that. It wouldn't hide you from a determined surveillant, anyway. I have a lot of friends and acquaintances around the world. It might amuse you to know that I try to make myself easy to find on the Internet. That's why this post, for example, carries my true name with my valid email address. -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |
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JF Mezei:
This isn't a case of the government monitoring ME. It is a case of them collecting my communications in bulk, and when doing searches for something unreleated, my stuff might come up. If I make a joke about centrifuges in my basement to make a nuclear device, and this is collected, then someone doing a search for terrorists in USA planning to detonate nuke would pull up my joke. It is then up to an analyst to determine this is of no value and dismiss it. This thread is utterly ludicrous. Of all those who have participated, only one--me--has 32 years in the business and knows how SIGINT targeting, collection, and analysis really work. Everyone else--that's everyone--is either guessing or repeating what they want to believe from others who also know *nothing* *whatsoever* about the subject. But the reality would make for a very boring thread. "Nothing to report." -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |
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On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:01:50 -0500, Davoud wrote:
JF Mezei: This isn't a case of the government monitoring ME. It is a case of them collecting my communications in bulk, and when doing searches for something unreleated, my stuff might come up. If I make a joke about centrifuges in my basement to make a nuclear device, and this is collected, then someone doing a search for terrorists in USA planning to detonate nuke would pull up my joke. It is then up to an analyst to determine this is of no value and dismiss it. This thread is utterly ludicrous. Of all those who have participated, only one--me--has 32 years in the business and knows how SIGINT targeting, collection, and analysis really work. Everyone else--that's everyone--is either guessing or repeating what they want to believe from others who also know *nothing* *whatsoever* about the subject. But the reality would make for a very boring thread. "Nothing to report." I don't claim to be knowledgable but I have read enough to not be totally ignorant. Too many peple think that they are secure as long as they use what they regard as an impregnable code. They don't seem to realise that there is a great deal that can be learned from simple traffic analysis. (Traffic analysis? What's that?). -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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On 02/03/2018 04:41, Davoud wrote:
Davoud: *Travel: if you have an E-ZPass or equivalent the issuer knows every time you go through a toll booth. For that matter, authorities know when you go through a toll booth even if you choose to use a slow lane; your license plate is read by a camera. ultred ragnusen: The ticket was based merely off my license plate since there's no way I'd ever have those electronic payment systems in my vehicle. (I wonder, if you have one, can you easily turn it off? Or do you have to Faraday it?) If you're not a paranoid conspiracy theorist you don't do anything with it; you just use it to make travel more convenient. All you can do to combat this threat is constant "privacy hygiene", such as changing IP addresses, changing nyms and email addresses, changing IMEI numbers, changing locations, providing false data, changing your vernacular, etc. If you're not a paranoid conspiracy theorist you don't do any of that. It wouldn't hide you from a determined surveillant, anyway. I have a lot of friends and acquaintances around the world. It might amuse you to know that I try to make myself easy to find on the Internet. That's why this post, for example, carries my true name with my valid email address. I've thoroughly enjoyed exploring your web site. Your photographic skill is truly amazing, especially now that I'm using my new 27 inch iMac with Retina 5K display https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dei -- David B. |
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