Posted on 03/30/2016 4:20:27 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The battle between the FBI and Apple ended on Monday with “no clear winner,” according to The New York Times. Not so. The clear winner is the American people, and the clear loser is Apple.
The FBI had requested Apple’s help in unlocking a cell phone used by the San Bernardino killers--Apple refused. The Justice Department took the dispute to court, arguing that a search warrant required Apple to program a “backdoor” into Syed Farook’s password- protected iPhone5. A judge initially decided in favor of the government, but Apple appealed the ruling; the case was expected to end up at the Supreme Court.
Monday, everything changed when the FBI announced it had gained access to Farook’s phone and didn’t need Apple’s help after all. Several issues in the case remain unresolved, but for the moment, the Justice Department has the information it sought.
Apple, on the other hand, looks foolish. Now we know that their much-vaunted privacy settings are not so private after all. By literally making a federal case out of its refusal to comply with the government, Apple CEO Tim Cook meant to show the world that his company was willing to buck the system to protect customer security. Instead, the world has learned that iPhone passwords can be hacked.
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This protects Apple from being forced by some other government to provide the same back door. If FBI, or Chinese government spooks, can break the code, fine. But China can’t force Apple to provide the back door as a condition of sale.
Well, they could still, I suppose. We’ll see. But for sure if they created the back door, China could certainly demand it, and so could every other government with a market big enough to matter.
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I’d say this will mark a steep and fast decline in Apple and the cult it fostered.
“China could certainly demand it”
How about Apple telling China that it will move it’s production for Apple products out of China?
Or, maybe the Feds came to the conclusion there was not likely anything particularly valuable in that phone beyond what the NSA had already collected, and just decided to claim they had already hacked it, so “never mind”.
Roflol... OR NOT.
Apple wins
Government hacks loose.
Is it a good short? I’m always nervous about shorting a popular name....
I’m not seeing the problem.
One device, an obsolete model, using a medium security technique long suspected of a weakness, was after tremendous wrangling & threats & money cracked by a business specializing in such forensic work, likely involving specialized hardware.
We do not disparage locks just because locksmiths can, with training tools & practice, open some.
The anti-Trumpers claim it’s impossible for Apple to move its production out of China.
“China can’t force Apple to provide the back door as a condition of sale.”
To the contrary, indications are China forced Apple to prove there WASN’T a back door.
I would certainly like to see this. About time.
Why? The flaw has already been fixed.
I'm not surprised at that conclusion from certain quarters.
It doesn't prevent them from being completely wrong. Apple is up over $5 a share since the iPhone was hacked.
Tim Cook better cook up some CROW PIE. He messed up big time on this. Apple stocks will plunge now as they see anyone can crack the code to the iPhone. Good ploy Tim Cook.
This is not a certainty at all. How do we know the FBI didn't simply remember the password they had changed after seizing the phone? I wouldn't expect them to tell the public the truth about how they accessed it.
Put your IRA in Apple puts and become the next John Paulson?
Incidentally, Okie, since there are more than 800 million individual users of Apple products, it's hard to call it a cult, it would be a mainstream religion now. The Anti-Apple Hate Brigade with their level of irrational beliefs would be the cult.
Some behind the scenes quid pro quo is my guess.
One security option on one obsolete model can be cracked by a forensics company with lots of tools & talent for about the price of a car and the practical destruction of the device.
That’s hardly “anyone can crack the code to the iPhone”.
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