Welcome to my web site. My name is Mike Ash. I'm a programmer at Plausible Labs by night, and a glider pilot by day. I'm an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Université d'Orléans . I currently reside in the Washington, DC area.
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The big tech news this week is that the FBI is trying to force Apple to unlock a suspect's iPhone. One of the interesting points around this story is that the iPhone in question is an older one, an iPhone 5c. Newer phones have what Apple calls the Secure Enclave, which some say protects against requests of this…