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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Apple lied. You are attempting to assist them in the cover up.
I despise Apple, but I agree 100% with your comments.
I suspect the FBI leaned on some Apple programmers and got one to hand over one of the universal unlock codes they built into the operating system.
Once again, your claim Apple would have had total control is unfounded and based on nothing but sheer delusion.
The only one we see lying here is you and your ilk. You have posted no evidence for your contentions except your delusional and repetitious claims and your assertions there are words in the court order that are simply not there which no one else can find. What other fantasies and hallucinations from which you suffer is a subject about which I won't even begin to speculate. You are a sad, pathetic little person.
There are no "universal unlock codes" built into the operating system. If there were, they'd have been found by now by some of the best hackers in the world who've been looking for one and not found any. The solution was an expensive to implement hardware approach that is not-truly a "hack" but a de-compiling of the hardware code and then a rebuilding of a virtual copy of the phone to try the possible codes until one worked to unlock the virtual copy. . . Or alternately, to build a database of all possible hash codes the hidden algorithm can create from a four digit passcode and comparing it to the one they were finally able to read using a physical method to read the data without destroying the data. Still not a software hack of the system, but instead one requiring very sophisticated skills and equipment that can only be applied to one device at a time and it's a technique which cannot be weaponized to be applied to hundreds of millions of devices in any conceivable mass attack.
Based on what the FBI said in it's filing, and what FBI director Comey said.
Also based on common sense. Apple's made up scare tactic of "Oh my GOD!!!! THE FBI IS GOING TO BREAK INTO ALL YOUR PHONES!!!!!!" was nonsense on the face of it.
Again, your delusion is that the FBI pleadings mean anything probative.
And it is your delusion that they can get away with anything beyond that which they asked for.
No, what I say is based in the facts. What you say is not.
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