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San Bernardino Shooter's Apple ID Passcode Changed While in Government Possession, Apple Says
ABC News ^ | 2/19/2016 | Jack Date

Posted on 02/19/2016 5:07:38 PM PST by rpierce

The Apple ID passcode for the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone was changed less than 24 hours after authorities took possession of the device, a senior Apple executive said today.

And Apple could have recovered information from the phone had the Apple ID passcode not been changed, Apple said.

If the phone was taken to a location where it recognized the Wi-Fi network, such as the San Bernardino shooters' home, it could have been backed up to the cloud, Apple suggested. ... The auto reset was executed by a county information technology employee, according to a federal official. Federal investigators only found out about the reset after it had occurred and that the county employee acted on his own, not on the orders of federal authorities, the source said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: apple; california; farook; fbiappleiphone; sanbernadino; sanbernardino; security; waronterror
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To: dirtboy
Some possibilities in bammy's Americka...

Was this a local IT type who thought he/she knew what they were doing a royally screwed the pooch?

Was this someone acting on verbal orders to make sure information on there was unrecoverable - to protect other sleepers?

Was this intentional, so that they could push for even weaker encryption and/or deeper, more comprehensive holes in the security. As in "Look, existing capabilities aren't enough, a simple mistake can deny law enforcement all this critical information..."

21 posted on 02/19/2016 5:19:08 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: doc1019

I don’t think so. One would still have to log in with the original password


22 posted on 02/19/2016 5:19:24 PM PST by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: rpierce
profile criminal case, I think I'd have not changed anything on the device and enlisted the help of the big boys.

Yes, and that's why I have no sympathy for the county IT guy, whatsoever. On a case like this, that phone should have been placed in a sealed evidence bag until the person in charge of the investigation said otherwise.

23 posted on 02/19/2016 5:19:28 PM PST by zedee
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To: gaijin

Would the entity that did THIS and never got into legal trouble also do THIS..?

Of COURSE they would..!!

24 posted on 02/19/2016 5:20:15 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Thanks.


25 posted on 02/19/2016 5:20:33 PM PST by digger48
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To: digger48

#10 yeah but they were trying to hide from public because barky didn’t want to o call it
Islamic terrorism


26 posted on 02/19/2016 5:20:47 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: gaijin

27 posted on 02/19/2016 5:21:22 PM PST by gaijin
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To: dirtboy
"The FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on [the shooter's] iPhone," Cook added. "In the wrong hands, this software -- which does not exist today -- would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone's physical possession."

This is what Rush was talking about today. The one-off exception is an FBI cover story. What they really want is the ability to get into anybody's phone.

28 posted on 02/19/2016 5:21:49 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: bubbacluck

You understand that, I understand that ... just trying to understand the post.


29 posted on 02/19/2016 5:22:18 PM PST by doc1019 (Cruz)
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To: rpierce
Sucks to be him right about now.

Does it?

He's given the feds the perfect excuse to do exactly what they wanted, learn how to tap into every iPhone.

I would be surprised if he gets a BIG bonus and promotion.

30 posted on 02/19/2016 5:22:30 PM PST by null and void (This is "They live", and most people would rather fight you than put on the glasses...)
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To: rpierce
The Apple ID passcode for the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone was changed less than 24 hours after authorities took possession of the device, a senior Apple executive said today.

"So the county IT guy decided to get creative and set an unfortunate chain of events in motion. Sucks to be him right about now."

Let's not be so quick to judge.

Is there ANYONE in High Places, like, oh, for instance, a certain White Mosque, whose homeys would benefit from having the information slow-walked out - even totally prevented from coming out all together?

31 posted on 02/19/2016 5:22:36 PM PST by kiryandil ("Our Muslim-In-Chief, Barack Obama - the Quislaming in the White House")
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To: rpierce

“So the county IT guy decided to get creative and set an unfortunate chain of events in motion. Sucks to be him right about now. “

You didn’t read the rest of the article:

“Apple executives say the phone was in the possession of the government when that passcode was reset. A federal official familiar with the investigation confirmed that federal investigators were indeed in possession of the phone when the reset occurred.”

In other words, the FBI blatantly lied in their court filing to try to cover-up their own incompetence by blaming some IT schlub in the San Berdoo Health Department.


32 posted on 02/19/2016 5:23:09 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: rpierce

Whoa...

What a pickle.


33 posted on 02/19/2016 5:23:12 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: gaijin

He was the Olympic Park bombing HERO, but Bill Clinton ordered the FBI to make him the perp.

The FBI willingly complied.

34 posted on 02/19/2016 5:23:22 PM PST by gaijin
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To: rpierce

I’ll bet that somewhere, on page 192 of a large white binder, it says:

“If someone is no longer employed by the county, but has failed to turn in his iPhone, then the administrator should remotely reset the password to insure that confidential data remains secure.”


35 posted on 02/19/2016 5:23:56 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: rpierce

The Hillary campaign has asked him to join.


36 posted on 02/19/2016 5:23:56 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: rpierce
Maybe the county IT guy is the third shooter? Is he a Muzzie.

Grab your tin foil hat, folks. A smell a cover-up and the phone Apple looked at MIGHT NOT EVEN BE THE ORIGINAL 'FAROOK' PHONE!

37 posted on 02/19/2016 5:24:03 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (u)
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To: rpierce

This sounds like there is an administrator or super-user passcode the county had.


38 posted on 02/19/2016 5:24:33 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: digger48

Frankly I don’t know how that works. I understand it was a county phone but not sure how the IT guy did this.

From an article I just read it makes it much more difficult for Apple to even get into it even of they wanted to.
They would have to come up with new software to even try. So they don’t have an immediate way to get into that phone themselves.

I still don’t know what is on that phone they can’t get from the cell phone provider. I think this is another excuse to get a back door into anyone’s phone.


39 posted on 02/19/2016 5:24:47 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: rpierce
The Apple ID passcode for the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone was changed less than 24 hours after authorities took possession of the device, a senior Apple executive said today. ... The auto reset was executed by a county information technology employee, according to a federal official.

So:

1. The original pass code was known, because you need it to change it.

2. The current pass code is known, because the county employee set it.

3. The problem is therefore that the county employee won't tell the FBI what the new passcode is - or did tell them the new pass code, but they're not admitting they have it.

40 posted on 02/19/2016 5:25:04 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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