Behind the Scenes of iOS Security

Why HN readers recommended it

HN repeatedly recommends it as the deepest public look at how iCloud Keychain and Apple's device and cloud security are designed.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Black Hat

Topic

ios and icloud security

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

9

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2026

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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• They do all sorts of device key exchange, if you haven't watched the talk at Black Hat I'd highly recommend it: [VIDEO] (link goes to beginning of Secure Enclave content, and later on in the talk he discusses iCloud which uses the SEP keys)

• The Black Hat talk was really great: [VIDEO] (link is to SEP and on-device encryption, 22:30 is iCloud stuff) > I know they said they could have accessed that San Bernardino terrorist’s iCloud backup if only they had one. Not sure if they’ve change the …

• I tried 1Password but finally resolved to use iCloud keychain after watching this BlackHat 2016 video [VIDEO] . I mean as far as I already trust their OS nothing can really protect me from being spied by them if they are ill intentioned, so as …