Posted on 03/28/2016 3:36:30 PM PDT by McGruff
The U.S. Justice Department announced Monday it has successfully accessed data stored on the iPhone that belonged to the San Bernardino gunman without Apple's help, ending the court case against the tech company.
The surprise development effectively ends a pitched court battle between Apple and the Obama administration.
The government told a federal court Monday, without any details, that it accessed data on gunman Syed Farook's iPhone and no longer requires Apple's assistance.
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I said some time ago that this was just a ploy by the FBI to make contacts with this couple think they didn’t have any information. Now that they’ve pretty much drained that pond they can come clean.
Pretty simple model.
Image the phone, outright, in soft data.
Brute force the phone 10 times, that version is locked.
Copy the image back.
10 more brute forces.
Rinse and repeat, especially in a massively parallel manner.
When I first heard of the lawsuit, I laughed. The FBI data boys thought of this AFTER I did.
Jew-ware alert!
;-)
See my comment. No encryption standard can beat my method.
Now Apple will probably push for the FBI for the details so that they can close whatever hole in their security might exist.
Read that the FBI hired an Israeli firm to access the phone. Guess they figured it out.
Maybe they got the password from the terrorist. Perhaps they put the dude in a chair and did the James Bond ball torture — “the question is.. will you yield in time?”
Several family members of victims have said that they didn’t want Apple to comply with the request.
Think Israelis.
I suspect that their ‘secret method’ involved some serious assistance from Apple. Obviously they can admit that.
A member of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence unit, broke the code. Naturally it was very easy for him to do that. I’m sure he has done it several times.
The phone was used by Farook, he’s dead. Torturing a corpse accomplishes little.
There is a silver lining in this; any company is now tacitly permitted to make/use encryption it cannot break or for which it does not posses keys. They broke iOS 8 or 9 encryption and key management. If Apple is made aware of how the phone was cracked, iOS 10 could be very difficult to crack.
Dear Apple owners....If you’re a terrorist...get a damn throw away.
Yep. They know he’s a huge fraud.
IF the FBI cracked the phone AND there is actionable intelligence on it, they would be fools and idiots to tell everyone that it has been cracked, at least till they had tracked down every possible lead.
Keep in mind that the phone was a 5C, which doesn’t have the hardware layout that later models do. What worked here may not be applicable to newer phones.
LOL!
They must have taken McAfee up on his offer. LOL!
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