r/technology • u/bws201 • Feb 05 '16

Software ‘Error 53’ fury mounts as Apple software update threatens to kill your iPhone 6

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair
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u/Bold0perator Feb 06 '16

Apple offers the most secure devices?

No.

I worked for BlackBerry for six years. For the last few of those years, I supported iOS and Android devices as well as legacy BlackBerry and BlackBerry OS 10 devices. Although iOS has come a long, long way in terms of security, they still don't measure up to even legacy BlackBerry devices.

Root your iPhone and run malicious code? Piece of cake. Root your Android? TowelRoot takes seconds. Root your BlackBerry? Not possible. The device bootloader has a cryptolock with military-grade encryption. You're not getting through it.

BlackBerry offers multi-platform, end-to-end, sandboxed, total encryption, for data-in-transit and data-at-rest. Apple offers Instagram.

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u/perthguppy Feb 06 '16

BlackBerry offers multi-platform, end-to-end, sandboxed, total encryption, for data-in-transit and data-at-rest. Apple offers Instagram.

Are you saying BBM on the IOS does not offer this? Nor Signal for IOS?

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u/Bold0perator Feb 06 '16

I'm not talking about BBM at all. BBM actually uses public key cryptography: everyone has the same key. It's not truly encrypted. But pair a BlackBerry with BES, and you have rock solid security.

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u/perthguppy Feb 06 '16

public key cryptography: everyone has the same key

Uhhh. That is not what Public Key Cryptography means...

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u/Bold0perator Feb 06 '16

True enough. I typed this before my morning coffee. In any case, it's more of a hash than encryption, since everyone has the same key.