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.
Put your IRA in Apple puts and become the next John Paulson?
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”.
Apples does’t even sell the model that was cracked anymore in the US. The newer ones are supposed to be much harder to get into. Look at how much hassle it took them to get into the cheap, old 5c. My iPhone is much more secure than I thought it was before this mess with the FBI. I do not see how this will hurt them at all.
"Anyone" can't crack the code to the iPhone. It required one of the most sophisticated security companies in the world, Cellebrite, to do it several months of work to accomplish that task.
"The company (Cellebrite) has a manufacturing facility and research operations in Israel, where it employs hundreds. It has marketing operations in the U.S., Singapore, Germany and Brazil. . .Forensics and data-recovery firms have built businesses on their ability to retrieve data that appears to be unreadable. In recent years Apple has forced them to step up their game. When it introduced iOS 8 in 2014, Apple said it would no longer have the ability to decrypt data stored on the phone. The newer iOS 9 and hardware upgrades to the iPhone itself make Apple’s devices even more secure.'
Mr. Guido believes that his company (Trail of Bits) could gain access to the data on Mr. Farook’s phone in one to three months.
At DriveSavers Inc., another company looking for a way into the phone, director of engineering Mike Cobb says his team, too, is approaching a solution. SOURCE — " Apple Fight Sets Off Race Among Hackers" —By ROBERT MACMILLAN — Wall Street Journal — March 23, 2016
It's not an easy hack. It requires very sophisticated equipment to accomplish it. . . and that is for now obsolete technology in a four year old iPhone 5C that has been superseded by much more robust security technology in the iPhone 5S, 6, 6Plus, then this year's 6S, and 6S Plus with the Secure Element processor.
It really kills me how a majority of freedom-loving Freepers are preaching the virtues of government subservience. How did that happen? Oh yeah, Apple is a company that we don't like. A whole lot of non-Jewish Germans figured the SS would never come for them, either.