Apple unlocked at least 70 iPhones before refusing to hack into terrorist's device

Daily News ^ | Feb. 18, 2016 | Meg Wagner

[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.

[FreedomOfExpression]

Because now they're being ordered to write a decryption program that doesn't exist.

Thank you! This bears repeating.

[BykrBayb]

Last I checked, slavery requires duly being convicted before force labor can be extracted.

Check again. You can be ordered to create a homosexual wedding cake, even though you've never made one before. Besides, there's no such thing. Slavery is alive and well.

[zeugma]

Now the new phones that look at your finger print, they could just cut the perp’s finger off and unlock it.

Nope. Won't work like that. Blood has to be flowing in the blood vessels. That's why if your hands are too cold, it can be difficult to use the FP reader.

[ThomasThomas]

If I used this info to argue with my liberal coworker he could prove me wrong. You need to tell the whole truth. You loose credibility with LIES like this headline.

[Innovative]

“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.”

So why doesn’t Apple offer to decrypt this particular phone?
You seem to suggest that Apple offered to do this.

I thought that they just wanted to get into this particular phone exactly this — but everything I read in the news says otherwise.

[BykrBayb]

And if I’m not mistaken, they’ve also been ordered to give that program to the government, to use in unlocking other iPhones in the future. I hope I misunderstood that part at least.

[manc]

Apple the compay7 who supports terrorism and those who want to buy an Apple should understand that their money will go to helping Apple to do this , as well as helping liberal causes, such as the homosexual, cross dressing agenda.

[manc]

First time I have seen this about Apple.

Thankfully I don’t buy Apple or their I-phone so I know my money is not supporting this, nor the homo , cross dressing agenda and liberal causes.

[manc]

Why doesn’t Apple then just do it themselves and give the terrorist info to the FBI then and that way we will know who or if there are more terrorists here?

[mad_as_he$$]

Best guess is the phone has already been wiped. If it does get unlocked and the information leads to prosecution then the defense can demand that Apple reveal how the information was recovered in open court. That will insure every hacker on the planet can gain access to your iPhone.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

70 iPhones...? All Tea Party members no doubt

[BykrBayb]

According to Apple, they were actively helping in the investigation. They’re just refusing to write a decryption program that would eliminate security on every iPhone in the world.

http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

[mazda77]

The news? Yea, right. In light that Apple have done it before keeping their encryption key safe only buttresses my point.

As we all know, the news operates on a pack mentality template. Just get it on the wire and then it spreads because there are no real journalists. From listening to the whole story as Rush was able to find out, the template is that Apple will not even do what it did before, but it is in the fine details that it become perfectly clear. Once the Feds have the encryption key, which is now proven that Apple did such a great job of creating that has left the alphabet intel agencies without a means to crack, then everybody is open to the Feds.

I would have thought the NSA crap would have been a wake-up call to everyone, especially on this forum.

[JimRed]

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.

I can't understand why they didn't do it like we would do the ol' SSS...shoot, shovel and shut up. Do what has to be done, just keep quiet about it.

[GOPJ]

"Apple is saying it does not want to do this. It does not want to be in the business of being a method by which customer data is disclosed," an Apple lawyer said.

Someone needs tell the Apple lawyer the 'customer' (terrorist) is DEAD.

[kingu]

Check again. You can be ordered to create a homosexual wedding cake, even though you've never made one before. Besides, there's no such thing. Slavery is alive and well.

Funny how many people can understand that it is wrong to force a baker to bake, but are all gun ho to see Tim Cook jailed for Apple refusing to create a new software package..

[B212]

tell me if I have correct.....the legals want Apple to open the phone to see the phone logs, outgoing and incoming, there isn’t a digital log of the conversations....and so it seems to me, that scan of cell tower logs recorded data should tell the story....and if there are overseas calls, then international gateways should have logs of the called numbers....

[zeugma]

Because the feds don’t really care about the data. Thay want to be able to crack iphones

[Ken H]

Perhaps Apple got a call from Team Zero and said ‘don’t you dare hack into that phone’.

So Team Zero was in court demanding Apple comply, and behind the scenes demanding they not comply?

[ully2]

Just say no to Apple.