Posted on 04/14/2016 2:13:22 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The FBI’s quest to unlock the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone 5c and subsequent legal battle with Apple may have amounted to very little, as reports say nothing of real significance has been discovered on the now-unlocked device.
But the FBI is still analyzing the information, a law enforcement source told CBS News.
Related: Apple vs. the FBI: A complete timeline of the war over tech encryption
Apple refused a court order demanding it to create a backdoor into the iPhone, which would have allowed the FBI to access suspected terrorist Syed Farook’ personal information stored within. The Cupertino company said it would threaten the privacy and security of its customers, as the special code used to bypass the iPhone’s security could get into the wrong hands.
But the FBI dropped the case as it was able to access the phone after it paid professional “gray hat” hackers a flat fee to unlock the device. Apple still wants to know how the hackers got past its security, but the company won’t sue the government to find out.
Apple was planning to find the technique through legal discovery in a New York drug related case, but it appears that the technique is under the legal ownership of the hackers the FBI paid, according to Reuters.
We reported earlier this month that the method could be revealed through the Vulnerabilities Equities Process — a White House review group decides whether government-discovered security flaws should be disclosed to companies or the public. But Obama administration sources reportedly told Reuters that the process will likely not apply in the San Bernardino case, as it was a third-party group that discovered the flaw.
FBI Director James Comey said recently the bureau is still deciding if it should disclose the method.
“We tell Apple, then they’re going to fix it, then we’re back where we started from,” Comey said. “We may end up there, we just haven’t decided yet.”
No! It took them a week to come up with a picture of the lady jihadist! FBI is banned from looking at the social media posts of terrorists!
Pinging dayglored and Shadow Ace for their attention.
Thanks to Coronal for the heads up!
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The reason is that they probably deleted everything on it considering the ineptitude they have shown from the start.
I guess that’s why he didn’t destroy it? Allah forbid,they don’t lean on the mother and his friends!
These are the idiots who are spending BILLIONS of hard-working taxpayers’ dollars to “protect” us.
What a bunch of clowns.
And you think they’re really gonna tell us the truth. The message was for all muzzie crazies out there....like...don’t worry boys...we know nothing...
Maybe they should look at ALL CAPS stuff.
Exaclty!
FBI HASN’T FOUND ANYTHING USEFUL, REGARDING THEIR JOBS
And they still can’t find the front door to David Koresh’s compound in Waco.
What a pile of ass-clowns.
It's embarrassing in the extreme that these corrupt fools are associated with my country at all, much less that they are involved in running it.
Feh!
He may have deleted everything form it beforehand........................
The FBI did find that you and your Apple employer are both liars since you claimed it was “impossible” to do what the FBI did and get into that phone.
Much like the dog that didn’t bark in the night, sometimes “nothing useful” can be very interesting....
What reports from what known reliable source?
Typical internet rumors.
Wouldn’t they still be able to determine what had been there?
Not if the memory is erased. It’s not like a hard disk drive.....................
No. Neither Apple nor I claimed such a thing. I specifically said that the iPhone 5C was more vulnerable than the iPhone 5S and later devices and Apple said they could do it, but would not, because it would be too dangerous to create the hack that would do so.
Secondly, I have told you at least a hundred times that I am not now employed, nor have I ever been employed, by Apple nor have I ever been employed with any organization affiliated with Apple in any way whatsoever.
Quit making false statements of fact. YOU ARE A LIAR!
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