Posted on 03/31/2016 10:20:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The FBI agreed Wednesday to help an Arkansas prosecutor unlock an iPhone and iPod belonging to two teenagers accused of killing a couple, just days after the federal agency announced it had gained access to an iPhone linked to the gunman in a mass shooting in California.
Faulkner County Prosecuting Attorney Cody Hiland said the FBI agreed to the request from his office and the Conway Police Department Wednesday afternoon. A judge on Tuesday agreed to postpone the trial of 18-year-old Hunter Drexler so prosecutors could ask the FBI for help. Drexler's trial was moved from next week to June 27.
Drexler and 15-year-old Justin Staton are accused of killing Robert and Patricia Cogdell at their home in Conway, 30 miles north of Little Rock, in July. The Cogdells had raised Staton as their grandson.
The FBI announced Monday that it had gained access to an iPhone belonging to Syed Farook, who died with his wife in a gun battle with police after they killed 14 people in San Bernardino in December. The FBI hasn't revealed how it cracked Farook's iPhone. Authorities also haven't said whether the iPhone and iPod in the Arkansas case are the same models or whether the FBI will use the same method to try to get into the devices.
Hiland said he could not discuss details of the murder case in Arkansas, but confirmed the FBI had agreed less than a day after the initial request
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So it begins.
If you must keep a diary of your criminal activities, do it on paper... and write in cursive so no government-worker can read it.
This is Apple’s reward for it’s intransigence; they lost control of their own product.
“Yes, Apple’s screaming Tantrum fit has worked out so well for them.”
Well, hire a Drama Queen, you’ll get drama...the two utes who murdered those people are probably more disappointed than some here, though.
Yes they must submit to the continued steamrolling tyranny of the feds!
This is still FR, right?
Protecting a phone? Are you hearing yourself? They were protecting their intellectual property! You can’t expect any security in your digital transactions if there are backdoors present, even if the backdoor was put there for a “benevolent” entity such as the government. SOMEONE will eventually find it and exploit it.
You people wishing ill on Apple are incredible. They’re trying to protect the fidelity of ALL of our digital transactions, not just their own. The FBI “figured out a way around” the protections, great. Good for them. They hacked their way in. They call that “white hat” in my industry, and it happens all the time. Strong arming a company into giving up its keys is tantamount to extortion.
Pound sand, the lot of you!
No Swordmaker comment yet?
All hail the Mothership of Apple©!! d;^)
/light-hearted aggravation
Hear, Hear!
Time consuming. I suspect that they took a Virtual Snapshot of his phone and hosted it in a VM enviroment. They kept trying the password until they got it. If it locked out, they just reloaded the snapshot.
This stopped being FR months ago.
I believe that the FBI “cracked” the dead terrorists’ iPhones just as much as I believe that Obama killed bin Laden. This is propaganda being put out there to sway opinion.
Apple did the right thing, and I will support them and any other company or individual who stands up to tyranny from within that we now live with.
“You people wishing ill on Apple are incredible. “
You people thinking Apple is the center of the universe are incredible. If those folks that were murdered and got off because we couldn’t exercise a legally executed warrant, or, for that matter, exonerated by it, do you and your offspring would be living in a better world? Seriously? When do you think the Constitution should work, when it is easy to employ? Throw out the 4th Amendment PROTECTIONS and you will really see the spit hit the spam.
Ditto that!
Apple to the US government: I double-dog dare you.
.Alinsky would be proud of the big eared POS
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