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Case Suggests How Government May Get Around Phone Encryption
Wall Street Journal ^ | November 25, 2014 | By Danny Yadron

Posted on 11/26/2014 5:17:32 PM PST by Swordmaker

The Justice Department is turning to a 225-year-old law to tackle a very modern problem: password-protected cellphones.

Prosecutors last month persuaded a federal magistrate in Manhattan to order an unnamed phone maker to provide “reasonable technical assistance” to unlock a password-protected phone that could contain evidence in a credit-card-fraud case, according to court filings. The court had approved a search warrant for the phone three weeks earlier. The phone maker, its operating system and why the government has not been able to unlock it remain under seal.

The little-noticed case could offer hints for the government’s strategy to counter new encryption features from Apple Inc. and Google Inc., say privacy advocates and people familiar with such cases say.

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1 posted on 11/26/2014 5:17:32 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker

Generally speaking, using encryption on public nets makes you suspicious.

Best to speak privately and face to face.


2 posted on 11/26/2014 5:21:24 PM PST by mylife
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; altair; ...
No matter how much "reasonable technical assistance" Apple is ordered to provide in getting into an encrypted iOS device, it will not succeed. Unless Apple or the government has the user's passcode, they'd have to use brute force to decode the 256 bit encryption. . . which could take years. I cannot see that "reasonable" would require redesigning all devices to allow the access to a few. — PING!


Apple Security by Encryption Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

3 posted on 11/26/2014 5:23:24 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: mylife

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4 posted on 11/26/2014 5:25:12 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Swordmaker

If it was a terrorist case, I’ll bet the CIA could manage to get the password....don’t want to tell us? We have ways....


5 posted on 11/26/2014 5:25:45 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Swordmaker

That’s not years...that’s more time than has elapsed sin the beginning of the universe. Even if you could try a billion passwords a second , that’s only a couple quadrillion a year.


6 posted on 11/26/2014 5:28:45 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Swordmaker

Nothing electronic is safe. Period!!


7 posted on 11/26/2014 5:28:58 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (i)
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To: Rodamala

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8 posted on 11/26/2014 5:29:11 PM PST by mylife
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To: Rodamala

No twos compliments?

As above so below...


9 posted on 11/26/2014 5:30:13 PM PST by mylife
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To: Swordmaker

ineXORable


10 posted on 11/26/2014 5:39:20 PM PST by Bobalu (Please excuse the crudity of this model. I didn't have time to build it to scale or paint it.)
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To: Rodamala

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11 posted on 11/26/2014 5:42:59 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Swordmaker

Combine it (2 A) and they’ll be using the phone as a brick for at least 2 millenia. ..


12 posted on 11/26/2014 5:47:59 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Rodamala

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13 posted on 11/26/2014 5:49:31 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet stays on the internet.)
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To: Swordmaker; All

BTW I am so eager to see the new Benedict Cumberbatch film, “The Imitation Game”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5CjKEFb-sM


14 posted on 11/26/2014 5:50:28 PM PST by mylife
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To: proxy_user
That’s not years...that’s more time than has elapsed sin the beginning of the universe. Even if you could try a billion passwords a second , that’s only a couple quadrillion a year.

It depends on the complexity of the chosen passcode. Apple allows 256 character in the passcode and the characters can be any of the 227 the user can access normally through the keyboard. The only limitation Apple places is that the user may not repeat the same character twice consecutively, for example, XOX is OK, but XXO would not be allowed. Simple numeric passcodes can be only four digits. . . Stupid to use, of course. . . of which there are only 9,999 total combinations, that could be broken before I finished typing the word "broken." But a really complex pass phrase would take as long as you say.

15 posted on 11/26/2014 5:52:22 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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http://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/1jx1n1/what_is_the_difference_between_a_cryptographic/


16 posted on 11/26/2014 5:58:09 PM PST by mylife
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17 posted on 11/26/2014 5:59:09 PM PST by RedMDer (I don't listen to Liars but when I do I know it's Barack Obama.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWq5wAX8K8A


18 posted on 11/26/2014 6:00:24 PM PST by mylife
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To: Rodamala

Unfortunately for you, I was able to decode your secret binary message.

It decodes to: My hovercraft is full of eels.

Better luck next time.


19 posted on 11/26/2014 6:03:02 PM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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20 posted on 11/26/2014 6:07:47 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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