So, I’ve heard two different stories: 1) the Feds just want some help cracking this particular phone and 2) the Feds want a generic back-door to Apple phones. Which is it?
Forked Tongue.
They say (1) and want (2).
Cracking this one phone will produce a tool that can crack all iPhones. You don’t think the gov’t will use the new tool they have forced Apple to,provide them?
“Investigators want to get into a passcode-protected cellphone used by Syed Farook before he opened fire on his office’s holiday party, killing 14 people in December. Farook and his co-shooter, his wife Tashfeen Malik, died in a gun battle with police. The order, handed down by U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym, requires Apple to write a software that will bypass the self-destruct feature. That way, the FBI will be able to try different combinations in rapid sequence until it finds the right one. (It is widely believed that the phone may contain more information on the ISIS terror cell.)
The magistrate’s order requires that the software Apple provides be programmed to work only on Farook’s phone.”
This is more hysteria created by the tin foil hat crowd. It is simply a request for entry, just as is any warrant, issued for a specific reason to a specific one time only property.
Both. The camel under the tent is the former. The latter is the end game.
Problem is: I don’t think Apple can do it. Not that they wouldn’t for just cause, just that they can’t. They took themselves out of the equation.
They can’t crack your own phone if you forget your passcode. You’re SOL.
A question ain't really a question if you know the answer too...(John Prine in Far From Me
The Feds always want unfettered aspect to all out lives and "secrets" - no matter how they phrase their own questions.
In order to crack this particular phone, they want Apple to create a back-door that can be applied to any iPhone with the “offensive” encryption.
The government focuses their argument on the one phone because to admit that they would gain access to al such phones would harm their case.