[DiogenesLamp]

Poor Apple got it’s @$$ handed to it in just a week.

[Blueflag]

256 bit AES encryption is highly secure, but not totally.

Brute force can eventually get in.

[dynoman]

Good.

[Innovative]

“it was successfully able to access the data on the iPhone without Apple’s help”

I don’t think this is a victory for Apple. It shows that anyone can break into Apple phones, without their help, so their phones are not as secure as they claim

[Ben Mugged]

Apple won a major victory

A Pyrrhic victory at best.

[jessduntno]

“It remains a priority for the government to ensure that law enforcement can obtain crucial digital information to protect national security and public safety...”

Something the Israeli’s know about and respect a little more than some of our liberal thick-skulled companies.

[lee martell]

Eric Snowden said weeks ago, that they did not really need permission from Apple, and were fully capable of doing their own hacking. Maybe Eric can come home if the next president is republican. Or one never knows, they may have a high status job to offer him.

[Grampa Dave]

What if NSA cracked the code last year and identified terrorist targets for wet work and monitoring last year within days after the terrorist attack at San Bernardino. Then, let MI5, DGESEF and the CIA wet work experts handle those terrorists.

NSA

MI5

DGSE

CIA

[I want the USA back]

So the encryption is worth nothing?

[chuckee]

Uh,oh. Hillary just flushed her iphone down the toilet.

[butlerweave]

They just discovered the password was written on the back of the phone

[Tucker39]

What they aren’t telling us is that they’d hacked into the phone within 24 hours of finding it. This whole months-long rhubarb we’ve watched between them and Apple was merely an attempt to strongarm Apple into making it easy to get into everyone’s iphone.

[wardaddy]

Good for them

[familyop]

The situation is best explained here.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

[familyop]

Such encryption can be cracked with one of the few supercomputers or with a very large distributed computing effort. It’s a matter of whether or not the cracking needed has a high enough priority for the time and resources required for either kind of effort. And if so, likely a matter of weeks.

[WalterSkinner]

..proof that there really is a Chloe O’Brien...

[minnesota_bound]

Was it Apple + Israeli company + NSA that cracked the encryption?
Apple ceo given choice of cooperating or jail?