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New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm

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286 points joegibbs | 4 comments | 15 Nov 24 01:55 UTC | HN request time: 1.515s | source
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arcticbull ◴[15 Nov 24 03:08 UTC] No.42143642[source]▶
Periodic reboots are actually a PCI requirement for payment terminals heh, basically every point of sale on the market reboots every 24h.
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Gigachad ◴[15 Nov 24 03:21 UTC] No.42143696[source]▶
Seems like a good defence in depth strategy. These days most systems have a pretty good boot chain security, so after a reboot you know the system is in a valid state and any potential malicious changes have been flushed out.
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raverbashing ◴[15 Nov 24 06:41 UTC] No.42144436[source]▶
But wait for security cargo-culters call it "security by obscurity"
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1. ip26 ◴[15 Nov 24 06:47 UTC] No.42144463[source]▶
All that private key nonsense falls in this bucket as well. What else is a private key than an attempt to guard your system behind a thin veil of "an obscure number I know and you don't"? Classic security by obscurity.
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2. portaouflop ◴[15 Nov 24 08:27 UTC] No.42144928[source]▶
So everything is security by obscurity?
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3. raverbashing ◴[15 Nov 24 08:40 UTC] No.42144993[source]▶
Officially no, as one (or more secrets) are allowed

But given how some "security specialists" behave, I wouldn't put it past them

4. rikkert ◴[15 Nov 24 09:45 UTC] No.42145348[source]▶
always has been...