FBI breaks into San Bernardino gunman's iPhone without Apple's help, ending court case

Fox News ^ | March 28, 2016

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks.

In the hundreds of replies in the many posts on this issue, I thought it was mentioned that the I Phone 5 was the fav of the terrorists because of the phone’s security.

[VerySadAmerican]

But they got in so he was right. The technology has been “there” long before it goes retail

[Swordmaker]

In the hundreds of replies in the many posts on this issue, I thought it was mentioned that the I Phone 5 was the fav of the terrorists because of the phone’s security.

You're right. You did see it on these posts. . . written by people who didn't know what they were talking about.

I'll explain it again for their benefit.

The iPhone 5 has very little security compare to later model iPhones and it is not the favorite of terrorists due to the fact that phone calls, messages, and email on iPhones can be gotten from the carriers because iPhones HAVE TO BE REGISTERED WITH A TRACEABLE PHONE NUMBER! That gets the authorities every phone number they called (including blocked numbers, overseas numbers, messages, and emails, regardless of how careful they are in using it!)

No matter how many times I have to spelled it out for the people on these threads that terrorists, including the San Bernardino two, use BURNER phones which they can buy anywhere for under $60 that do not have to be registered with ANY carrier by name, ID, or anything except an anonymous minutes card they can buy for cash anywhere, those same people will post the same false claim in the next or even the same thread!

The SB two did not have to worry about "security" on their cheap burner phones because they SMASHED them to smithereens which made them completely unreadable for any purpose at all. THOSE are what terrorists use, not expensive $600 iPhones registered and traceable. For what a terrorist would pay for one iPhone, they could buy and destroy ELEVEN burner phones, changing phone numbers each time!

[Swordmaker]

But they got in so he was right. The technology has been “there” long before it goes retail

Apple is known for its obsessive secrecy and Apple doesn't publish what it's doing where Snowden could find it. . . the NSA papers he published on Apple iPhones were five years out-of-date.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I’ve sure learned a lot, like how many Freepers have turned in favor of govt. subservience. Apparently they think that the US Government putting Apple against the wall and strong-arming them for free labor is just Jim-dandy! What’s really telling is the number of them that are afraid to reply to me after I called them out.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Of the people that I called out for supporting government marginalizing people/companies and treating them like subjects that are to be ruled, it's very telling that not one of them has the brass to reply to me.

Yep, the one organization that had all the pieces of the puzzle on Sept. 11th and did nothing was the NSA. It is the height of irony that they weren't mentioned once in the 9-11 Commission report.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I’m thinking none of them wanted to sink low enough to call the NSA for help, so they finally cracked the phone after months of effort. Meanwhile, the USG has experts that could’ve cracked it over their lunch break.