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What is the betting that the Apple phone had stuff which showed someone important, whose initials might or might not resemble V.J., approving of the attack or helping to smooth the way? /sarc>
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Seems like big news to me!
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It wasn’t an error, it was done on purpose.
They claim they can’t get to the info on the phone to explain the missing 18 minutes (the time after the shootings and before the couple is executed while driving their rented SUV around the area aimlessly).
They know what was on the phone. Which was either ‘nothing’, or indications that the couple were not alone (the third shooter). It was a business phone. The couple had two cell phone which they destroyed. Those had something on them. Not this one.
But the FBI needs an excuse for not having to explain why the couple didn’t just flee the area.
Besides, Apple already said they would ‘unlock’ the phone.
Our ‘government’ wants Apple to give the FBI a tool to hack any Apple phone, any time. That is what Apple is refusing to provide.
“F.B.I. personnel apparently believed that by resetting the iCloud password, they could get access to information stored on the iPhone.”
Complete BS. The FBI is not that incompetent.
F.B.I. personnel apparently believed that by resetting the iCloud password, they could get access to information stored on the iPhone. Instead, the change had the opposite effect — locking them out and eliminating other means of getting in.
Apparently the FBI is too stupid to use google to look for an answer before they went ahead and reset the password. They might have also considered mocking up the locked phone on a different iPhone and trying to access that one first as a test. How can they be so freaking incompetent!
No wonder Apple is feeling contrary!
I would too!
“We tried to knock down your door and well, the porch fell down. Now we need to bulldoze your home.”
And they admitted that their request is not just about “this one phone”, and if they get their way on this one they fully intend to make Apple open other phones. They even had the sister of a murder victim in the crowd, talking about how they needed to unlock the victim’s phone to see if they could determine if she was murdered by someone she knew. Once again, they have nothing to support the idea that there is ANY evidence on the phone. While they certainly should have the right to search the phone if they can get in, how does that give them the right to force Apple to create a tool to break the security of the phone?
This falls squarely in hussein's lap. Chief LEO of the US isn't he?
"in some instances it has turned over data stored in iCloud"
So why not now?
I’m even more disillusioned with the fbi than i am with cruz, namely, i had always assumed the fbi had a cracker-jack
cyber team. i guess competence has been destroyed here by obama just like everywhere else in the FedGov, what with
LGBTXYZness, skin color, gender, green light bulbs, green diesel fuel, and all the rest being WAY, WAY more important
than mere competence.
Let’s hope President Trump can repair some of this damage.
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Me thinks this phone is locked and will never be ‘cracked’ because the gubmint bankrolled and planned the SB attack. SOMETHING is being willfully covered-up here and THIS is why the FBI or gubmint ‘hack’ employee botched the phone ON PURPOSE.
I have had dealings with numerous government agencies over the decades. My overwhelming impression is incompetence or a lack of caring. I have, of course, come across individuals who did a good job. But they are swamped in a morass of people who do a bad job.
Why bother providing good service when just being there is enough? For the most part they would need to kill someone at work to get fired. Even then, I suspect counselling would be tried first.
Here is just one story. I worked for Fairchild Weston EMR. At this point we had 80% of the world-wide crash recorder market. We needed to switch from high failure rate carbon resistors to metal film; a huge improvement with zero risk. We had a consultant who had an office inside the FAA offices. Each Monday morning he would start out to get signatures on an engineering change notice to make the resistor change. Around Thursday people who had signed the document earlier in the week would hunt him up to find out of the document was signed off. If it was not they would withdraw their signature. Nobody wanted to go into a weekend with an open document bearing their signature in case a crash occurred and it was tied back to the change. They wanted the cover of everybody buying into the change first so they could not be blamed if anything went wrong. If this sounds absurd, then you do not understand how civil servants think. It took months to get this simple change approved.
This avoidance of blame by never doing anything is so common at all levels in all agencies that the agencies are close to useless. The jobs are simply a way of redistributing wealth.
Even without “changing the password”, how could they have circumvented the 10 tries and wiped scenario?
And rob us of our freedom to boot.
Good for Apple for standing their ground and refusing to cave.
How could they "reset" the password without knowing the origina pw? Every time I've had to reset a pw, I had to provide the original.