Trump Says Apple Should Hack San Bernardino Attacker Phone

ABC News ^ | 2/17/2016 | Ryan Struyk

[pgyanke]

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump bashed the tech company Apple today for refusing to help investigators access the iPhone of a San Bernardino attacker.

"I agree 100 percent with the courts," he said on "Fox and Friends" this morning. "In that case, we should open it up."

"To think that Apple won't allow us to get into her cell phone -- who do they think they are?" Trump said. "No, we have to open it up."

[pgyanke]

,,,, getting all the benefits of their native country while shipping whole industries and jobs to communist and fascist regimes abroad that keep their workers in serf-like conditions.

Sure... but it's not the topic of this thread.

[kabar]

Of course it is. Apple is an American company that has shipped a huge number of jobs to Communist China. It has no allegiance or loyalty to the US as demonstrated by its unwillingness to cooperate with our government on a critical matter of national security. Fourteen American citizens were slaughtered by radical Islamic terrorists. We have their iPhone that could contain important information about their contacts and accomplices. Apple will not cooperate necessitating the FBI going to court to get the information.

I really don't understand how anyone can defend Apple's actions.

[pgyanke]

... demonstrated by its unwillingness to cooperate with our government on a critical matter of national security.

I stopped reading right there. You don't listen. Apple does not have the key to the phone. They should not be compelled to find a way to hack their own security.

[CA Conservative]

Last I checked, that was consistent with the Constitution which requires probable cause for a search warrant.

Apple is not the "custodian" of the information being sought - they don't have access to the phone nor do they have the data on their servers, nor do they have a way to bypass the encryption, so a search warrant can't really be served on them. The FBI is trying to force Apple as a 3rd party not involved in the crime to CREATE a way to bypass the security.

[kabar]

I stopped reading right there. You don't listen. Apple does not have the key to the phone. They should not be compelled to find a way to hack their own security.

A 2015 court case shows that the tech giant has been willing to play ball with the government before—and is only stopping now because it might ‘tarnish the Apple brand.’

Apple CEO Tim Cook declared on Wednesday that his company wouldn’t comply with a government search warrant to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers, a significant escalation in a long-running debate between technology companies and the government over access to people’s electronically-stored private information.

But in a similar case in New York last year, Apple acknowledged that it could extract such data if it wanted to. And according to prosecutors in that case, Apple has unlocked phones for authorities at least 70 times since 2008. (Apple doesn’t dispute this figure.)

In other words, Apple's stance in the San Bernardino case may not be quite the principled defense that Cook claims it is. In fact, it may have as much to do with public relations as it does with warding off what Cook called “an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers.”

[CA Conservative]

Apple should agree to perform the decryption in their offices with the FBI present but unable to read the decryption logic.

One more time - APPLE CANNOT DECRYPT THE PHONE! The court order is not for Apple to decrypt the phone, because they cannot do so. What the court is trying to order Apple to do is to write a custom version of the operating system that will allow the FBI to brute force the pin without the data getting erased. They also want to force Apple to create a method will allow the FBI to use WiFi or Bluetooth to enter the pins remotely and without any delays between tries. No way that could be misused, is there? Your iPhone is in your pocket, but the G-man at the next table is able to use Bluetooth to crack your pin and access your phone without you ever knowing.... Of course they would NEVER use that technology without the proper warrant...