Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Time

From: William Yager <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:21:08 -0400

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[email-masked]>
wrote:

>
> Is breadwallet tamper resistant & zero on tamper hardware? otherwise
> this sounds like security theater.... I attach a debugger to the
> process (or modify the program) and ignore the block sourced time.
>
>
It's an iOS application. I would imagine it is substantially more difficult
to attach to a process (which, at the very least, requires root, and
perhaps other things on iOS) than to convince the device to change its
system time.

That said, the security benefits might not be too substantial.