Non-practicing entity Identity Security on Monday filed a lawsuit against Apple, claiming the tech giant s Secure Enclave technology, present in nearly every major Apple product line, infringes on four owned patents.
Lodged with the patent holder-friendly U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Identity Security s suit takes issue with Apple s Secure Enclave, an on-device technology that protects sensitive user data by isolating it in a dedicated subsystem. The system is integrated into Apple s system-on-chip designs currently deployed in iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, Apple TV and HomePod.
Identity Security claims Apple s implementation of a secure enclave in its various hardware solutions infringes on U.S. Patent Nos. 7,493,497, 8,020,008, 8,489,895 and 9,507,948, each of which details methods of improving user security by creating a digital identity that resides on a unique microprocessor device. Password and biometric protection are also mentioned in the
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Meet M1
M1 is Apple s 11th-generation architecture, system on a chip, silicon sandwich for ultra-low power Macs and, now, the iPad Pro. For the custom CPU, it s got four of Apple s Icestorm efficiency cores and four Firestorm performance cores. Not that Firestorm… And those integrate the Apple Scaler Matrix Multiplication accelerators, or, mercifully, AMX.
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How to encrypt a Mac storage device
Apple allows encrypted drives in two varieties.
body>Full-disk encryption (FDE) is a low-effort way to ensure that if someone were to get ahold of one of your drives while unmounted or a Mac while powered down, the contents on the drive would be unusable to them without knowing a password or other encryption information. Apple offers two distinct ways of encrypting volumes on a drive, and it s important to know the difference between them and the current limitation on drives connected to M1-based Apple Silicon Macs.
FileVault: FileVault lets you control access to your startup volume, whether on an internal or external drive, including encrypting a drive where necessary. This can t be used with an external startup drive with an M1-based Mac.
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