re: Apple acts all high and mighty.. Won't turn over password to terrorists iPhone

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This particular case is different. The FBI is not asking Apple to build a “back door” into its iPhone exactly. Instead, it is asking Apple to build a new version of its iOS operating system that would dismantle two safety mechanisms on the iPhone 5c. The first erases all of the information on the device after an incorrect password has been entered ten times. The second requires that a password be manually entered onto an iPhone screen rather than through a USB drive.

Dismantling those two safety mechanisms would allow the FBI to use what’s known as a “brute force” attack on the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone password. It would set up a computer, connected to the phone via a USB drive, that would try every single possible combination of numbers in the password, and eventually, by trial and error, break into that way. No encryption key necessary.

But in order to pull off such a brute force attack, it needs Apple to rewrite its operating system, and “sign it,” so to speak, with the official Apple key, so that the San Bernardino’s iPhone would accept the new version as a legitimate operating system update..

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frickin terrorist-supporting, Bern-feeling, liberal mother frickers.

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Rather than asking for legislative action through Congress, the FBI is proposing an unprecedented use of the All Writs Act of 1789 to justify an expansion of its authority.

The government would have us remove security features and add new capabilities to the operating system, allowing a passcode to be input electronically. This would make it easier to unlock an iPhone by “brute force,” trying thousands or millions of combinations with the speed of a modern computer. The implications of the government’s demands are chilling.

If the government can use the All Writs Act to make it easier to unlock your iPhone, it would have the power to reach into anyone’s device to capture their data.

The government could extend this breach of privacy and demand that Apple build surveillance software to intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone’s microphone or camera without your knowledge.

Opposing this order is not something we take lightly. We feel we must speak up in the face of what we see as an overreach by the U.S. government. We are challenging the FBI’s demands with the deepest respect for American democracy and a love of our country. We believe it would be in the best interest of everyone to step back and consider the implications.

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Apps are sandboxed

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