re: Report: Apple can bypass the lockscreen on iphone5c to comply with FBI

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Maybe that's their argument, but it doesn't matter. There is a court order. Apple has to comply, or they are in contempt.

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The State Department has avoided contempt for months. I expect the District Court judge is going to be a little reluctant to issue a contempt arrest warrant for Tim Cook.

From the lawyers at Electronic Frontier Foundation:

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Code is speech, and forcing Apple to push backdoored updates would constitute “compelled speech” in violation of the First Amendment. It would raise Fourth and Fifth Amendment issues as well. Most important, Apple’s choice to offer device encryption controlled entirely by the user is both entirely legal and in line with the expert consensus on security best practices. It would be extremely wrong-headed for Congress to require third-party access to encrypted devices, but unless it does, Apple can’t be forced to do so under the All Writs Act.

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I would agree that there is a very, very, almost invisible chance that Apple doing this would lead to a data breach by cyber criminals. However, I don't see how one could argue that it does not create a dangerous precedent regarding governmental power over private data.

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Let me use myself as an anecdote. I have industrial parts manufactured in China and I import them into the US to sell to end users. Sometimes I have to go to China to meet with my manufacturers. What if the next time I go to China my phone is confiscated at Customs and they rip off my contact list. Now they have the name, job title, company, phone number, email address, and physical address of my entire customer base. Something I've worked 10 years to build up. Now they turn that list over to my manufacturers (because their name, job title, company, phone number, email address, and physical addresses are in my contacts too) and they can market directly to my customers and I'm out of a job.

Tim Cooke prepare to be audited by the IRS after that little 'publicity stunt' about how you are standing up to da big bad ol gubment.

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Of course it is not ethical but the NSA has unlimited resources, the latest tech and don't have to follow any laws. I just don't think it is that crazy to think they are able to remotely access an iPhone.

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"Transcripts of intercepted chats using OTR encryption handed over to the intelligence agency by a partner in Prism -- an NSA program that accesses data from at least nine American internet companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple -- show that the NSA's efforts appear to have been thwarted in these cases: "No decrypt available for this OTR message." This shows that OTR at least sometimes makes communications impossible to read for the NSA."

"Phil Zimmermann, the same man who created Pretty Good Privacy, which is still the most common encryption program for emails and documents in use today. PGP is more than 20 years old, but apparently it remains too robust for the NSA spies to crack. "No decrypt available for this PGP encrypted message," a further document viewed by SPIEGEL states of emails the NSA obtained from Yahoo."

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I just don't think it is that crazy to think they are able to remotely access an iPhone.

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To see what? A bunch of encrypted files that they can't crack?

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A bunch of encrypted files that they can't crack?

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Well, once they get through the pass code the encrypted files won't matter since they will have user access. Any, texts phone calls, location history information should be available. apple would essentially be jailbreaking the new ios, which hasn't been released right?


What if he had a family plan with other terrorists and they were sharing their locations. Turn that iPhone and you might have a direct link to them.

Or even better, he downloaded google search and turned on location history reporting. Could be a gold mine

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From Capt: However, I don't see how one could argue that it does not create a dangerous precedent regarding governmental power over private data.

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From that article, they have done it before, though

You truly are an idiot. You should be rejoicing that their are companies making products that our sleazy arse government can't hack into, yet you bitch and moan because Apple is trying to keep your privacy, private.

frick off loser.

Very few media outlets are reporting the truth about this phone. This is his work phone he left laying around for them to find. He and his bride took their personal phones and physically destroyed them and burned them.

IE I seriously doubt there is much info of any consequence on it.

But don't let this tragedy go to waste! Apple is the bad guy for not keeping America safe!!!!

This is bullshite pure and simple. The FBI knows anything and everything about these bozos they need to know. They need to move on and try and stop the next bozos who are planning this crap.

Once Apple makes a custom "FBI friendly" build of the OS and hands it over to the Feds, Pandora's box is opened and they no longer control that build and thus jeopardize the security features for all users.

This is a dangerous precedent and anyone who values liberty should be strongly against this action.