Justice Department Wants Data from About 12 Other iPhones
Question for HN in general: Is it possible in principle (for Apple or someone else) to construct a smartphone that can accept software/firmware updates, but that Apple cannot push malware to at some later time?E.g. can we implement all security functionality in hardware/burn it into the silicon? Or accomplish the same ends by some other means?Intuition says "no," because "security functionality" is sort of nebulous. But it would be great if a device could be constructed in such a way that all such future demands for collusion by hostile actors such as governments could be rendered preemptively impossible.