Posted on 04/14/2021 8:02:00 PM PDT by Conservat1
When the U.S. government wanted to break into a dead terrorist’s iPhone several years ago, they turned to a little-known cybersecurity startup in Australia to help them do it, a Washington Post investigation has revealed. Azimuth Security, located in Sydney, specializes in providing “best-of-breed technical services” to clients, according to its website.
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Really!
Of course they would say that in hopes that the terrorist would believe that their contact with Syed Rizwan Farook was deleted from his iPhone and not change their habits.
ISIL referred to Farook and Malik as “soldiers of the caliphate,”
Hi Swordmaker. *APPLE PING* ??
“Known Wolves”?
What I have thought from the get go on this story is the FBI fabricated a false story about cracking the phone. This would be the reason the "little company" that is always attributed to this story is foreign and not widely known. First they said it was some company in Israel, now it's Australian. Why make it up you ask? To make the public believe the FBI can get into your iphone and thus discourage use by those they want to monitor. It's BS like everything else that comes out of the FBI. The FBI is likely also trying to convince Apple themselves that they were able to bypass the iphone security. Why again? To make Apple more likely to provide a back door access if the company believes they will get into the phone anyway.
Don't believe anything the FBI says, ever.
Not sure what you mean. Post to the right thread?
The FBI idiots. You are not a “terrorist” unless you get messages on the shortwave from Tora Bora.
Thusly, "Known Wolf", and by extension here - "Known Wolves".
I think he may have been implying the FBI already knew who they were which would not surprise me in the slightest. Nearly every one of these mass shooters is connected with the FBI in some way. It's not a coincidence.
Not sure public or investigative reporters really know what happened.
Consider that if apple “ complies” and hands over encryption methods....many millions of users very angry. Plus who knows if terrorist group targets Apple...as payback.
Better to publicly resist govt...then secretly...give them encryption data....say that small outside firm cracked the code...cause govt didn’t need code from apple anyway..Plenty of hackers could crack code...it may have been a PR stunt. Imho.
Plus the discovery that murderers were not connected to anyone else sounds unlikely
Just so. Thanks.
Ah!
Thanks.
Lack of sleep for a few days has me a little slow on the up take.
There are at least half a dozen such cases. The Pulse nightclub shooter and the Boston Marathon bombers are two others.
Didn’t the older of the Boston Bomber Brothers travel to Afghanistan or somewhere to learn bomb making? Or did he just study on-line?
And I think it was the Russians that alerted the FBI to them being dangerous.
It wasn’t some ‘little firm in Australia’ like the headline says. It was a subsidiary of L3, a major US tech firm.
Clone the phone, and use software to try all 10,000 or so keypad combinations. When the clone locks at 10 tries, reclone.
That’s why I hate that so many phones insist on a short PIN. Just not very secure. Enough for to stop an average attack, but it’s just not very secure for an expert. A 6-8 digit PIN would be better. On my Samsung I use finger prints which would be fine, except you can override it with the PIN too.
Fine except they floated the same type BS story as far back as 2016 where the FBI worked with Cellebrite, an Israeli firm that they claimed unlocked the shooters iphone.
Here is just one of the reports of the claim. There were many reports of how Cellebrite got into the phone and most are still out there. Now suddenly it's again a "small startup" but this time it's in Australia.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/fbi-said-to-work-with-israel-s-cellebrite-to-crack-iphone
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