Posted on 04/11/2016 4:27:57 PM PDT by Coronal
The FBI won what amounts to a hollow victory in its fight to force Apple to break its own iPhone encryption. A Federal Judge in Boston an order compelling Apple to help recover data from an iPhone, but stopped short of forcing the company to break its own encryption or hack the lockscreen passcode, effectively telling the company to do exactly what it already does to help out law enforcement agencies.
Federal Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler's order stated,
"To the extent that data on the device is encrypted, Apple may provide a copy of the encrypted data to law enforcement but Apple is not required to attempt to decrypt, or otherwise enable law enforcement's attempts to access any encrypted data."
(Excerpt) Read more at macobserver.com ...
“IF” they did, they nullify their argument.
“IF” They didn’t they have proven they will stop at nothing to undermine the 1st amendment
Hollow? Hardly. It just peeled back another layer on the vast nothingness of the Apple cult.
It helps Apple to establish legal precedent to avoid weakening the security of their products.
Wake up, the beautiful people don’t live under the same set of laws as you and I.
On top of the 50 page ruling against the feds by the judge in the New York case, this is just more of the same. In that ruling, the judge meticulously eviscerated the govt case; the precedent probably convincing the govt to give up the pissing contest in the CA case.
And how do we know this isn’t all show biz and that they didn’t get into the phone immediately with Cooke helping them?
Good one! I love a moral victory story.
There's no moral victory in violating a court order in order to protect terrorists. If Apple wasn't so in bed with Obama and the left they would be in contempt of court... but of course with that bunch terrorists have more rights than we do.
And how do we know that they did?
You missed this part:
“but Apple is not required to attempt to decrypt, or otherwise enable law enforcement’s attempts to access any encrypted data.”
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What sort of American wouldn't be glad to help break into a terrorist's phone? I'll answer that for you... a friend of Obama's... someone who hates America as much as he does.
You missed the part where Apple is obeying the law.
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