2. The mandatory glass encased cameras on both sides, that cannot be reliably AND CONVENIENTLY covered at all times, nor readily dissected from the main board
3. The accelerometer that perpetually records its state
4. The continuously cached screenshots retained for transition animations.
5. Potential to compromise by attacking the combination data/power port, with a malicious charging cable.
6. Battery lock-in.
7. The walled-garden integrated app environment represents proprietary intellectual property, probably hinting at the Apple kill switch, which probably requires the App Store and iTunes to remain present on the device, in order to receive any level tech support from Apple. I bet Apple refused to budge on that. Let's face it though, they could just jailbreak the software environment if it was really that serious. At that point though, Obama would probably need the NSA to rewrite the phone's OS from the Darwin kernel all the way up.
All of these things seem like opportunities for vulnerability in my book.
Cell phone microphones in general are a problem, especially with all the hype regarding ultrasonic mesh networks, lately.
Some BlackBerry models have all of this, but I bet the one he has doesn't have items one through four.
2. The mandatory glass encased cameras on both sides, that cannot be reliably AND CONVENIENTLY covered at all times, nor readily dissected from the main board
3. The accelerometer that perpetually records its state
4. The continuously cached screenshots retained for transition animations.
5. Potential to compromise by attacking the combination data/power port, with a malicious charging cable.
6. Battery lock-in.
7. The walled-garden integrated app environment represents proprietary intellectual property, probably hinting at the Apple kill switch, which probably requires the App Store and iTunes to remain present on the device, in order to receive any level tech support from Apple. I bet Apple refused to budge on that. Let's face it though, they could just jailbreak the software environment if it was really that serious. At that point though, Obama would probably need the NSA to rewrite the phone's OS from the Darwin kernel all the way up.
All of these things seem like opportunities for vulnerability in my book.
Cell phone microphones in general are a problem, especially with all the hype regarding ultrasonic mesh networks, lately.
Some BlackBerry models have all of this, but I bet the one he has doesn't have items one through four.