Could this be an invitation for researchers to find a backdoor the NSA required Apple to put in there? Or are they just utilizing the crowd to help secure against NSA attacks?
That would make sense. They have been on the offensive for protecting their customers.
Trouble is auditing TrueCrypt cost $25k and it took massive rumors of a backdoor to raise that. I'm not sold that auditing this will happen anytime soon.
Slightly off topic; but does anyone have any resources that go into a higher level detail (I'm not very knowledgable of low-level programming type stuff) of how an audit like the one done on TrueCrypt or a hypothetical security audit on the iOS kernel works? How can anyone know with that degree of certainty that software is secure and someone else won't find some exploitable bit?
Trouble is auditing TrueCrypt cost $25k and it took massive rumors of a backdoor to raise that. I'm not sold that auditing this will happen anytime soon.