Confused as to WTF is happening with Apple, the FBI and a killer's iPhone? Let's fix that

The Register ^ | 17 Feb 2016 at 20:17 | Chris Williams

[snarkpup]

Some discussion of Apple's business angle, in addition to the technical and privacy issues.

[Lazamataz]

Confused as to WTF is happening with Apple, the FBI and a killer's iPhone? Let's fix that

I'm old enough to remember when news organizations did not see fit to curse in their headlines.

[ifinnegan]

If the murderers had been Americans who killed a bunch of Muslims, or homosexuals, Tim Cooke would be cooperating with the FBI.

[for-q-clinton]

I’m not a fan of Apple, but I am a fan for them supporting encryption and making the devices more secure. They have done a good job on that front.

[Mr. K]

Apple issued a statement saying they would be willing to help on this issue but NOT with the Federal Government’s request for back-door access to EVERY apple phone IN THE FUTURE

That makes sense to me- why is Apple getting slammed for that?

[driftdiver]

“why is Apple getting slammed for that?”

Because the govt wants access to all of our information without the pesky warrant.

[baltimorepoet]

If the murderers had been Americans who killed a bunch of Muslims, or homosexuals, Tim Cooke would be cooperating with the FBI.

Possibly. Possibly not.

[xp38]

I thought the NSA knew everything anyway or at least had the capability.

[whinecountry]

Very informative, thanks for posting this.

[Shadow44]

Yeah, it’d be so much more convenient for them to spy on is legally than break the law.

Not that it ever stopped them in the past.

[DiogenesLamp]

From the article.

Right. Apple can do what the FBI is asking it to do but doesn't want to admit it.

[Cheerio]

I'm old enough to remember when news organizations did not see fit to curse in their headlines.

And I also. Welcome to the coarse cesspool referred to as 2016. We have spent a couple of decades getting to this age - starting with the hippies in the 1960s and accelerated by the rappers of the 1990s. Today's kids have no clue what it is to be civil.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Maybe Hitlerys name and number is on that phone and they are defending her like everyone else seems to be doing nowadays.

[butlerweave]

The FBI left tons of photos and documents behind at that apartment ,maybe the password was in plain sight

[Yaelle]

My kid explained this all to me really fast last night... I love having tech kids!

I learned something new from this article: Farook destroyed two other cell phones and erased the “cloud” on this one leaving only the last couple weeks.

There is probably NOTHING on this phone if he was so careful to destroy all the others and the prior cloud stuff.

[Flick Lives]

The Feds, fearing a link between the pair and Islamic terrorists, want to break into Farook's phone. But the federal investigators don't know the passcode and fear the device will wipe itself after 10 wrong guesses.

If the Feds were really interested in cracking the terrorist's phone instead of getting a backdoor access to any iPhone on the planet, they would make disk image copies of the terrorist's iPhone and then attempt a brute force attack on the cloned image. After 10 attempts the cloned image wipes itself. You then move onto the next cloned image and repeat the attack.

[Yaelle]

You guys, it’s England. We still don’t have boobs on page threes, and we still don’t have fully naked adults in TV commercials. And I bet we don’t have WTF allowed in our headlines either.

[Fido969]

This is a scam by Homeland Security to get into EVERYONE’S cell phone.

These people don’t care about terrorists. The wouldn’t look at the Tsarnaev brothers when the Russians were screaming at us to, and they won’t even look at the San Bernadino bomber’s facebook pages, because it would be “profiling” and an “invasion of privacy.”

These people are spending billions of dollar a year, and if you think they’re looking for terrorists, I have a bridge to sell you. They’re looking at Tea party members and Obama’s political enemies.

[Micro aggressor]

Did you even read the article?

[usurper]

Because the govt wants access to all of our information without the pesky warrant.

The feds have a warrant and a federal court order. Apple better pony up or they will be held in contempt.