DOJ says Apple should be forced to unlock encrypted user data if asked by government

9 to 5 Mac ^ | October 24, 2014 | By Chance Miller

[Paladin2]

Apple hasn’t already given the backdoor key to 0bama?

[Dalberg-Acton]

Did you HAVE to use the terms “Obama” and “back door” in the same sentence?

[Vendome]

GFY G-Man....

[kiryandil]

The obstructers of justice [Lois Lerner felonies] in the Department of Justice can shove it up their felonious Obamas.

Don't make us pull this van over, DOJ. The adults are getting sick of your backseat whining.

[Vendome]

They gave up their right when they took the “investment”, by the givernment, under the 1996 Telecom Act.

[jdege]

This is sounding a lot like Apple trying desperately to avoid admitting that they’ve added their own secret backdoors and they don’t want their users to know.

If Apple had been using seeing encryption, as they should have been, they’d just have said that they were unable to recover the data.

[Red Steel]

Looks like Apple cannot even break their own encryption.

Well get the NSA to give it a try. ;-)

[Big Giant Head]

How funny. Apple users think the DOJ should be far more open when WE THE PEOPLE ask for information.

[Red Steel]

The question is how many companies have given back doors to Obama?

[basil]

I guess they aren’t interested in the data on my Samsung flip phone—LOL!

[basil]

I guess they aren’t interested in the data on my Samsung flip phone—LOL!

[AFreeBird]

There isn’t one.

[Swordmaker]

The DOJ seems to think that Apple merely has to change its End User License Agreement to allow them to have a means of getting into iPhones, iPads, or iPod touches with a backdoor, and that Apple is merely using legal objections in claiming they literally cannot comply with any court orders to assist opening iOS devices for search warrants. Even the statement that "Apple . . . claimed it would be nearly impossible to it to access the data on a passcode-locked iOS device running iOS 8 or later" demonstrates the abyss that separates the technological gap between the lawyers arguing this case and the mathematicians who have constructed the 256 bit AES encryption Apple uses to lock their devices. When entangled with the UUID of the device, with multiple-attempt lockouts, it is, in practice, impossible to break the encryption of such an encrypted device, not merely an academic legal exercise. — PING!

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[Darksheare]

Play the audio of R Lee Ermey’s lines from Full Metal Jacket for them.
Why?
Oh, no reason.
They could stand to hear the DYSD line on repeat for hours every time they ask for back doors into my papers.

[ctdonath2]

That’s exactly what Apple has been saying. They CAN’T unlock the phone’s data. There is no back door.
And Apple is also saying that if they ARE compelled to implement the back door, that’s about as secure as just leaving the data unlocked.

[Paladin2]

Difficult to believe that the BOFHs would have left one out.

[ctdonath2]

That’s the point: phone security do good that you’d need the NSA’s acres of supercomputers to break it (if possible at all).

[Tzfat]

Apple has no, zero, nada, way in after iOS 7. That is the argument, the gummint wants in with iOS 7 (who is using that any more?)

iOS 8, 9, and all future versions are inaccessible to ANYONE including Apple.

[Swordmaker]

Apple hasn’t already given the backdoor key to 0bama?

Apple does not even have a backdoor that allows them to open their devices. . . so how can they give a non-existent back-door key to Obama? So, the answer to your question is NO. In fact, The Hacker Team, the company which sells the tools to break into mobile devices to the NSA, CIA, FBI, MI6, KGB, the Sureté, and all the other clandestine and other police forces around the world has admitted that although they do have the means to crack into every mobile device in the world, including jailbroken iOS devices, they DO NOT have the means to break into the un-jailbroken iOS 8 or later devices such as iPhones, iPads, or iPod touches. They are offering a $1 million bounty to anyone who can provide a hack that can provide a means to do it. So far, no one has come forward with that hack.