Lots more devices are safe BFU than just Apple's. It's not that complicated on a technical level - it's basically full-disk encryption.
Apple sells the illusion of security and privacy, but they're not meaningfully more secure or private except from the device's owner. Remember when they made a big deal of blocking Facebook tracking, while simultaneously adding their own intrusive tracking?
>Lots more devices are safe BFU than just Apple's. It's not that complicated on a technical level - it's basically full-disk encryption.
That's not the full story. Using LUKS encryption on your linux laptop might make it "safe BFU", but only if you're using a high entropy password. Most people don't want to enter a 24 character password to unlock their phone, so Apple/Google have to add dedicated security hardware to resist bruteforce attempts, hence the vulnerabilities.
True but those chips also exist for PCs. Some USB security keys have this feature.
Do they actually implement anti-bruteforce protections though? Or does it just provide a static secret? Moreover how strong are the anti-bruteforce protections? Do they restrict attempts to a few per second, or actually keep track of how many wrong attempts and wipe themselves if that's exceeded?
There are many different ones.
> Lots more devices are safe BFU than just Apple's. It's not that complicated on a technical level - it's basically full-disk encryption.
So we agree: it's puzzling that Google can't manage to do it.
Google being bad doesn't mean Apple is good.
Aye but it is good Apple is safe out of the box. BFU is a low bar, and the shame is on Google.
>Lots more devices are safe BFU than just Apple's
Really? Secure against the exploits and methods these tools 3 letter agencies employ? I hate to cry source, but base Android isn't secure. What devices have similar hardware-level security, or have their Android flavor shipping with these Graphene-OS-level patches?
> Really? Secure against the exploits and methods these tools 3 letter agencies employ?
Before First Unlock data on your device is as safe as your password safe. It doesn't really matter if you use Android, iOS or any other devices as long as it have modern crypto on it.
Can't manage to do what? Google devices are still full-disk encrypted at BFU... this article is a nothingburger and many previous version charts have been put out over the years.