THE VIDEO SHELF · apple platform security
Behind the scenes of iOS and Mac Security
Ivan Krstic's Black Hat talk on Apple platform security, including the Find My design that uses elliptic curve key diversification to locate offline devices privately. It also covers hardware features such as the T2 chip and secure boot hardening.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a rare insider look at Apple's security architecture and the reasoning behind its hardware choices.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Black Hat
- Topic
- apple platform security
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Behind the scenes of iOS and Mac Security: [VIDEO] Good talk behind the reason for the T2 chip and some other Apple security stuff
PascLeRasc on Hacker News · 2019-12
In Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?I'm curious if Apple's work on hardening their secure boot process on x86 affects this at all? For this unaware, this [0] video covers it over about seven minutes. Basically they claim to be enabling the IOMMU with a basic deny everything policy so that …
paxswill on Hacker News · 2020-03
In Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust
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