[servo1969]

It's been out more than 48 hours now.
I bet someone has already hacked it.

[circlecity]

I’m not a big fan of the tech giants but if Apple is sincere about this then good for them.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

If this is true, than I will buy my first apple product since the 2E.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Cool.

[VanDeKoik]

All homes have backdoors.

[null and void]

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

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[mmichaels1970]

I bet someone has already hacked it.

Lol. My daughter is probably working on that as we speak.

The way I interpret it, this is a move that is less about hacking as it is about Apple's role in accessing private user data to provide to government. They're basically trying to take themselves out of the equation and force the government to get whatever info it wants from the user themselves and not Apple.

Unless I'm misreading, this is a nice little support for the fourth amendment.

It's a very smart move IMHO, and I can see this being a new trend with devices going forward: increased user privacy.

[gaijin]

if we are demilitarizing the military at the same time as militarizing the police, what does THAT say about who the new enemies are...?

good for Apple...!

[dead]

They didn't say anything about letting the police pay for our private data that Apple aggragates, like any other organization has to do.

You want a donut, you buy a donut.

[rarestia]

It’s not a “hacking” matter with this. This is Apple stating that they CAN’T help LE anymore, because they don’t hold the keys to the backdoors. This is Apple acknowledging that, “Yes, we had a second set of keys to your device to use for legal purposes, but we’re not going to do that anymore.”

Every security methodology has a “backdoor” built in, but if the security model puts the generation of keys, certificates, etc. in the hands of the consumer, then they can plausibly say that they have no way to assist.

[mmichaels1970]

This is a great article. Thanks for posting it. Here's an excerpt that really caught my eye:

Ronald T. Hosko, the former head of the FBI’s criminal investigative division, called the move by Apple “problematic,” saying it will contribute to the steady decrease of law enforcement’s ability to collect key evidence — to solve crimes and prevent them. The agency long has publicly worried about the “going dark” problem, in which the rising use of encryption across a range of services has undermined government’s ability to conduct surveillance, even when it is legally authorized.

“Our ability to act on data that does exist . . . is critical to our success,” Hosko said. He suggested that it would take a major event, such as a terrorist attack, to cause the pendulum to swing back toward giving authorities access to a broad range of digital information.

[Red Badger]

Define ‘Most’...................

[metmom]

Apple said Wednesday night that it is making it impossible for the company to turn over data from most iPhones or iPads to police — even when they have a search warrant — taking a hard new line as tech companies attempt to blunt allegations that they have too readily participated in government efforts to collect user information.

Good for them for not kowtowing to Big Brother.

Let's hope that other companies follow suit and resist the police state our country is becoming.

[moovova]

No big deal. The feds will just turn to Peggy...

[zeugma]

The move, announced with the publication of a new privacy policy tied to the release of Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 8, amounts to an engineering solution to a legal quandary: Rather than comply with binding court orders, Apple has reworked its latest encryption in a way that prevents the company — or anyone but the device’s owner — from gaining access to the vast troves of user data typically stored on smartphones or tablet computers.

This is really smart, and the way things should have always have been done. Once they beat it into the heads of the survellance state that they can't get the data for them, it will save them millions in compliance costs.

[DJ Frisat]

Color me skeptical of Apple's bravado. Anybody read the recent article about how much the gov't threatened fining Yahoo per day for refusing to play nice with NSA snooping a few years ago?

Money talks...

[minnesota_bound]

We will have to wait till the next batch of naked celebrity photos are released to determine if they have fixed the hacking problem....