Posted on 03/24/2016 12:27:40 AM PDT by Innovative
The FBI being apparently assisted by an Israeli tech firm in its efforts to unlock the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook — a perpetrator of December’s attacks in San Bernardino, Calif.
Apple has been steadfast in its refusal to aid the FBI in accessing the phone’s information, saying that doing so would breach privacy rights, but U.S. prosecutors said on Monday that a “nongovernmental third party” had provided them with a solution. On Wednesday, the English-language version of Israeli news website Ynet.co.il, in an article that featured reporting from Reuters, ventured that the “third party” in question is Cellebrite, an Israeli “mobile forensics” firm that has been under contract with the FBI since 2013.
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Someone needs to ask H->! if she supports the “Joo Bast@rds”,,,,
Odds are they'll find nothing of interest on this phone. It was an employer-issued phone -- not the kind of phone that trained operatives are going to use to contact other operatives.
They use "burn phones" for that kind of work. And the couple was seen the previous Sunday, throwing "stuff" into a lake (probably disassembled lap top and, maybe, phones).
0bama’s boot-licking minions continue to fail in protecting Americans from premature death due to Islam...
Apple’s stance is incomprehensible to me. The FBI wants them to unlock this ONE PHONE, and the objection to that is what? ... “If we unlocked this phone, then we would have to unlock every phone, and we won’t do that.” To me it’s just a giant in-your-face, we rule and you ain’t s**t to us gesture. I dunno, maybe I’m too emotional.
The truth is that the government can access the terrorist’s phone, but they claim they cannot so they can get an excuse to get access to ALL phones. Fact.
>>>an employer-issued phone...
with encryption? Dang, those office meetings need to be top secret!
When they finally crack it, it will probably say something like DON’T FORGET TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE!
Shades of “Mr. Greaves this message will self-destruct in five seconds.” and the cassette begins to smoke.
I concur with you. There was a news report a month ago that the US Attorney for New York had about 175 iPhones sitting in an office somewhere, waiting for the FBI to break Apple down, so he could break into all those phones.
FBI's already reading live traffic on iPhones they like, no doubt.
Every phone call on an iPhone should be accompanied by a polite request for the FBI agent online to stop breathing so loudly.
Yes. All iPhones are encrypted. Its what you get when you buy one.
Apple is fully in the right to refuse to the FBIs request hacking software.
The government cannot force a company to create something that doesn’t exist and that would compromise their business, and that would lead to malware getting out in the open based on that product.
I hope the phone doesn’t contain any information which could have alerted to and prevented what just happened in Brussels.
Isn't it Ironic it is coming from the land of milk and honey surrounded by despots that want to destroy them and they will unlock the phone.
The same country that will give us a maturing process for fracking fields, low friction lubricants that actually heal metal, and a rapidly charging electric car battery as in a 5 minute charge...
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Right. So they’ve finally done the right thing (and what the rest of the tech world does) — they’ve hired an Israeli firm to deal with it.
Forcing Apple to compromise a billion innocent people’s phones was not the answer.
Cellebrite is the company that supplied police — your garden variety patrolmen — with a scanner that could hack phones and dump their data. Including the Iphone 4. Some phones could be dumped by bluetooth without you even knowing. Cops were doing this routinely at traffic stops. Somebody tried to sue the the Michigan State Police to get the records of how often they had dumped phones at traffic stops and the State Police said it would cost over half a million dollars to put together those records and the plaintiff would have to pay half the cost up front. Does that sound like it was only being used in special cases like terrorism ? No. It sounds like they were doing it routinely fishing for evidence every time they pulled someone over. No warrant, no probably cause, just fishing. Just snooping because they could.
This is the type of casual abuse of privacy and the 4th Amendment that we should fear. A police state that is collecting everyone’s secrets, their photos, their online passwords, Apple Pay keys, etc. is a scary prospect. Phones are not simply phones anymore — they are your camera, photo album, wallet, online access point with all your cached passwords. There are some bad apples amongst police who would not hesitate to sell such a treasure trove. It would be nearly impossible to trace the info leak back to some dirty cop. It may have happened many times already without anyone knowing.
The FBI could have cracked this ONE PHONE in a matter of days by simply removing the flash memory from it, bypassing the IOS and encryption engine entirely, copying the encrypted data off the flash chips onto a server and letting it brute-force crack the encryption. A farm of dedicated cryptographic super computers would make relatively short work of it. If not, the NSA is spending an awful lot of money with nothing to show for it — cracking tougher encryption by foreign governments is what they do every day. It has never been about this ONE PHONE. It has always been about the FBI acquiring a version of IOS that they could upload onto any iPhone and dump the data with ease, just as they used to be able to dump earlier iPhones.
In five years this planet will be awash in encryption the FBI can’t break. They are on a fool’s errand.
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Hire a private company? Free enterprise rather than government coersion? What a bizarre concept.
Maybe if the FBI would upgrade from their rotary phones in the office they could keep up with current technology.
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