James Martin/CNET
Posted on 03/31/2016 10:14:44 PM PDT by Swordmaker
FBI tells Arkansas prosecutor it doesn't know enough to say if it really can unlock that iPhone and iPod.
The FBI is distancing itself from an Arkansas prosecutor's statement that said the agency will help unlock an iPhone and iPod belonging to two teenagers accused of murder.
The agency's office in Little Rock told the Associated Press Thursday that it doesn't have enough information about either Apple device to say if it can help the state's investigation.
"On March 28, 2016, FBI Little Rock received a request for investigative assistance in unlocking Apple devices," the agency said in a statement.
"The FBI frequently receives requests from our local partners to provide expert technical assistance. Such requests are considered on a case by case basis. At the time of the request, no information was provided regarding the device models or operating systems, so FBI Little Rock was not able to state if they would be able to provide assistance. The FBI does not currently have possession of the devices."
On Wednesday, Cody Heiland, a prosecuting attorney in Faulkner County, told the AP that the FBI had approved a request from his office and the Conway Police Department to crack the devices' defenses. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Well, that “mission failure” didn’t take long.
The camel’s nose is inside the tent...
Maybe, maybe not. The 3rd party that hacked the iPhone for the FBI most likely used an as yet undisclosed vulnerability in iOS. We don't know what that vulnerability is or which iOS devices is exists in. Maybe it's limited a particular model of phone. Whatever it is, it's only a matter of time before whatever exploit they used to get in gets patched.
Apple itself said that the iPhone 5C was hackable. . . it was an older design.
You don’t think they used a password sniffer of sorts to get in? You think a hacker found a hole in the code?
Only an idiotic government would make it public knowledge that they could hack into anything.
We didn’t tell the Nazi’s that the enigma was broken.
Apple or anyone else shouldn’t know what we can and cannot break.
I do find it hard to believe on any level though that our government has more technology than Apple or any other tech company that does research.
But if they did, for God’s sake, shut up about it.
Not that that is new news...
Valery called from the White House and said No
It’s looking unlikely at this point
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