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Strzok & Page: Tim Cook was a 'hypocrite' in the San Bernardino iPhone encryption fight
Business Insider ^
| February 8, 2018
| by Kif Leswing
Posted on 02/09/2018 7:53:52 AM PST by Swordmaker
- Apple publicly fought the FBI in 2016 over issues related to privacy, encryption, and an iPhone used by a terrorist.
- Texts between FBI employees released earlier this week give a peek into how some agents saw the battle.
In February 2016, as Apple and the FBI were quietly sparring over how to unlock an iPhone owned by one of the perpetrators of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, two FBI officials unrelated to the case back in Washington DC were privately discussing their distaste for Apple CEO Tim Cook.
"And what makes me really angry about that Apple thing? The fact that Tim Cook plays such the privacy advocate," Peter Strzok, an FBI counterintelligence agent, wrote on February 9, 2016. "Yeah, jerky, your entire OS is designed to track me without me even knowing it."
"I know. Hypocrite," Lisa Page, a lawyer for the bureau, replied minutes later.
A week after that exchange, the strained relationship between Apple and the nation's top law enforcement agency became international news when Cook wrote an open letter explaining why Apple would not create special software to unlock the shooter's iPhone, defying a request to do so by the FBI. The FBI eventually dropped the request because it found a third-party vendor who was able to extract data from the iPhone 5C without Apple's help.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: applepinglist; california; devinnunes; fbi; fisa; lisapage; peterstrzok; rodrosenstein; sanbernardino; strzok; texts
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To: Swordmaker
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Strzok & Page were T'd off that Apple would not create an FBiOS for the FBI to open the San Bernardino Terrorist's iPhone. They complained in texts that Apple tracks people anyway without telling them, but ignore the fact that tracking never leaves the device and is there for the use of the user's benefit, not Apple. "Now if Tim Cook would fall off the face of the earth says one of them. . . PING!
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posted on
02/09/2018 8:02:55 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
To: Swordmaker
Perpetrating fraud is just so natural with these people that every utterance has to be carefully analyzed and parsed.
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posted on
02/09/2018 8:17:03 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Ouchthatonehurt
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posted on
02/09/2018 8:18:30 AM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: Swordmaker
Sorry....I'm one of those folks that believes that this phone could carry some info relevant to this and future attacks. P>Get an apple tech and an FBI, CIA rep in a secure room, download it, read it...and then decide its worth.
If it's Mickey Mouse cartoons, that would be terrific.
This is not an ordinary citizen's phone. It's a terrorist's phone.
To: Swordmaker
People like Strzok and Page are the exact reason Apple is reluctant to help the government crack its encryption.
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posted on
02/09/2018 8:28:13 AM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
To: Swordmaker; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
02/09/2018 8:33:17 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: Sacajaweau
Up until several years ago I felt that the FBI should be able to access encrypted/locked data on smartphones and computers. This belief was founded on my faith that the FBI was incorruptible and would NEVER abuse that privilege.
Ive been proved wrong in my mistaken belief in the governments honesty. Im now a FIRM believer in Apples approach to respect/protect its customers privacy. Apple has designed its privacy protections so that even it cant breach its customers protected data. That stands in sharp contrast to other companies who not only dont protect their customers privacy but actually SELL THEIR CUSTOMERS DATA.
So THANK YOU APPLE.
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posted on
02/09/2018 8:38:47 AM PST
by
House Atreides
(BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
To: Swordmaker
Thanks for the ping. The special agent and his lover are confused about the 4th amendment. The 4th amendment ensures the right of the citizens to be secure from illegal search and seizure by the government. Their ignorance of the 4th might also explain why they thought it was appropriate to violate the rights of DJT and his campaign.
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posted on
02/09/2018 8:39:49 AM PST
by
palmer
(...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
To: Sacajaweau
Get an apple tech and an FBI, CIA rep in a secure room, download it That would only be possible with design flaws. The same flaws can be exploited by anyone (e.g. smart Israelis the last time it happened). I'd rather have a product without flaws. I don't want the government outlawing flawless phones.
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posted on
02/09/2018 8:43:37 AM PST
by
palmer
(...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
To: Ouchthatonehurt
It is ok for liberals to be homophobes. Only conservatives need fear the label.
To: Swordmaker
From what I remember (unless things have changed) the terrorist phone was unlocked, and an FBI agent accidentally locked it.
Then, The feds wanted Apple to not only unlock it again, they wanted the ability to unlock every iPhone.
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02/09/2018 8:49:10 AM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(Vote for your guns!)
To: House Atreides
It would be great if Apple used that as ad to tout their security...but that would make the dimwits look bad!
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posted on
02/09/2018 8:49:50 AM PST
by
gr8eman
(Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
To: House Atreides
A terrorist has no right to privacy....especially since he/she just mowed down a bunch of people....like you or me......
AND HE'S DEAD.
To: House Atreides
I’m with you, Atreides. At that time, I thought Apple was wrong to hold out on the FBI. Now that I see the FBI more clearly, Go Apple!
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posted on
02/09/2018 9:01:43 AM PST
by
bboop
(does not suffer fools gladly)
To: Swordmaker
And yet these wretched people continue to be employed by the FBI.
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posted on
02/09/2018 9:26:12 AM PST
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: Swordmaker
>>>Now if Tim Cook would fall off the face of the earth says one of them <<<
I’m sorry, but was this a suggestion from two FBI agents that Tim Cook should be assassinated by the FBI?
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posted on
02/09/2018 9:50:27 AM PST
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: Sacajaweau
The FBI didn’t want the ability to open the terrorists phone, they wanted the ability to open EVERY Apple phone.
That was what was at stake and while I do not like Apple I 100% support them in this case.
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posted on
02/09/2018 9:51:55 AM PST
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: Swordmaker
Peter knows nothing about how smart phones are structured or built or coded
He only seems to know about how he and his slut will save the world
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posted on
02/09/2018 10:04:08 AM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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