Apple V. FBI
What the FBI might use to break into the iPhone
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Posted on 03/22/2016 11:03:12 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Possible modes the FBI may use to break into the iPhone 5C proposed by USA Today. Link only due to copyright only due to copyright restrictions:
FBI could be using these hacks to break into killer's iPhone
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And your shouting point is?
Since the phone didn’t belong to the terrorist jackass who is the aggrieved party?
Maybe, but I suspect that the Feds are just making stuff up to extricate themselves from a legal case that isn’t going their way.
The FBI has duly seized the evidence. The FBI may examine it however they like, on their own time & dime.
Nobody may be _compelled_ to help the FBI make sense of what has been seized.
Remember, saying “Apple is just a company” misses the point that “the company” is PEOPLE: if the individual engineers capable of doing the work don’t want to, they cannot be compelled to (might get fired from Apple in the process). If those who actually do the compelled work say “NO” and simply refuse to, the FBI has no recourse. If the engineers in question quit in protest, or are fired for insubordination, what grounds would the FBI have to compel them as individuals against their will?
I suspect that the FBI was in such unconstitutional position that they called off the hearing to avoid embarrassment and now brag about their hacking. They will have to crack somewhere around 38 billion encryption possibilities. Won’t happen imo. Conversely, you can’t force a company to give them squat without a law that requires that. That may happen. If it does you will just buy your phone from foreign sellers and we lose even more jobs. We don’t want the government in our stuff.
4th amendment. Its right in the way!! Thank God.
I think the FBI went up to some engineer connected into Apples empire and was part of their encryption design episode. They probably offered him enough money that he spilled the beans on the design and showed the angle to go at this.
IT’S UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES
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The search and seizure was clearly reasonable.
What does that have to do with Apple?
I have a crazy idea. How about they keep it secret?
Last week the FBI “discovers” they can get into the terrorist’s phone through an anonymous “third party”.
This week, Apple comes out with an update to the iPhone operating system.
Does that strike anyone else as a little too coincidental?
or told him irs audits aint pretty
I thought I remember reading that McAfee, of the well-known virus software company, said it could be done in about three weeks and offered to do it at no charge. And it seems to have been about three weeks.
Maybe the judge’s order to Apple should require them to fire the employees who refuse to help out?
So...you’re compelling free men to do undesirable & morally-repugnant work under threat of punishment via loss of fair income for fair work? Really?
Dude, democraticunderground.com is thataway.
Maybe that’s not such a bad idea: those fired would make a huge pile of cash off their lawsuit against the FBI, probably orders of magnitude more than they would had they simply done the work.
“Does that strike anyone else as a little too coincidental?”
Seeing that Apple releases security updates about once a month, I think you’re grasping at straws there...
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
The encryption itself isn’t what the FBI is worried about. They can brute force encrypted data. The item that’s been perplexing them it the “Mission Impossible” hardware that erases the data after 10 wrong guesses.
Who knows there might have been clues that got stomped by the thundering herd as they rushed from room to room?
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