Posted on 02/18/2016 12:55:35 PM PST by Innovative
Apple is fighting the FBI over a court order requiring the tech giant to unlock a terrorist’s iPhone — but it appears the company had no problem breaking into at least 70 other protected smartphones.
The October refusal bewildered New York prosecutors, who claimed the iPhone maker "complied" with at least 70 other requests to unlock suspects' phones, Motherboard reported at the time. Each request was made under the All Writs Act, a 1789 statute that grants federal courts broad power to issue "necessary or appropriate" writs.
"(Apple) had an established procedure to routinely take any of these requests, comply with them, processing them," Assistant U.S. Attorney Saritha Komatireddy said in court.
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Apple is getting mighty close to providing material support to a terrorist organization.
All these tech devices from iphones to computers to gps are all in cahoots favoring the bad guys over the good guys. Not an ounce of honesty or integrity in any of them.
Just say NO to Obama.
Perhaps Apple got a call from Team Zero and said ‘don’t you dare hack into that phone’.. Hmmmmm, maybe Tashfeen and Farook had some gubmint training and support?
This has been posted several times over the past couple of days, and is basically FUD and propaganda. The phones the article discusses were all older phones, and are not on the latest IOS, which is what is causing the problem. It is well known that you can bypass the pin on older versions. This is not true of more recent versions of IOS.
This is maybe the fourth post of this same story today.
Thanks for posting this.
Gotta protect that Islamic terrorist market!
Perhaps the San Bernadino terrorists’ iPhone has Obama’s contact info.
No, the point is that Apple (regardless of the ease or difficulty of bypassing the PIN or thumbprint) did this some 70 times in the past.
Why now, when there is a genuine need to do so, are they refusing to open it? Because they don’t want to destroy their Muslim market.
Just noticed that this article was already posted by Dumbgrunt about an hour ago. Unfortunately it was posted in computers and miscellaneous topics, not in News, where I think it belongs, since there is a lot of articles and discussion in news about this topic.
So, AM, please leave my posted article up in news, but I did want to give credit to DumbGrunt — though we both found the article independently.
There are a lot of news stories about this, so it really does belong there:
How many times today will this be posted and debunked?
“This is maybe the fourth post of this same story today.”
Once the truth gets posted, they start a new thread.
Apple’s iOS has not been able to be decrypted since iOS8. Instead of trying to paint Apple as some 5th column corp, the feds should hire them to protect their servers.
Typical daily news distortion. Apple unlocked older devices, but has no such existing tool for iOs 8 or above. Last I checked, slavery requires duly being convicted before force labor can be extracted.
My son was explaining over lunch today why this is very very difficult to do. He’s not convinced it is possible... One of the problems he described was that you only get 10 try’s and the data gets wiped. That rules out any brute force attack.
Now the new phones that look at your finger print, they could just cut the perp’s finger off and unlock it.
Because now they're being ordered to write a decryption program that doesn't exist.
No. I'd say the technical difficulty is, in fact, the point. The feral government is attempting to get Apple to subvert their own designs, when it is not even entirely sure that it is even possible for them to do so.
They are using it as an excuse to give them global access to any iPhone. If they want it so bad, they can figure it out themselves. Frankly, if they'd actually done thisir jobs, the terrorists in question wouldn't have even been in the country to commit their crimes. So now the feral government is attempting to leverage their previous failure as a wedge to open up more avenues to invade the privacy of Americans. It must be great to have a heads I win/tails you lose job.
The FBI is not asking Apple to unlock this one phone, they are demanding that Apple give the source code for its encryption so anybodies phone can be hacked into whenever they want. They are not asking that Apple just get them into this one phone.
I do not own any Apple product for my own but after listening to Rush explain the whole deal, it is not just the four or six digit access code, but they are demanding the encryption codes.
Being an ex-crypto guy in the Army, it was easy to follow where they are hoping to go with this. I am standing with Apple to have one of their engineers get into it and give them the data inside, but not the code to get into any phone, by any means they want.
Apple would be out of business VERY quickly should I have a say.
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