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FBI could demand Apple source code and keys if iPhone backdoor too 'burdensome'
zdnet.com ^
| March 14, 2016
| Zack Whittaker
Posted on 03/14/2016 8:47:42 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: CyberAnt
will it affect every phone, only iPhone, or will it also include all android phones. If you care about data security when your phone is locked, Android is not secure, don't get one. If you do care, get Apple because Apple is secure. If Apple gives up their IP, then it will be just as insecure as Android.
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posted on
03/14/2016 11:47:24 AM PDT
by
palmer
(Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
To: CyberAnt
The reason Im asking is that Im considering upgrading to a Samsung6S - which I believe is an android phone .. and I want to know ahead of time if that phone will be affected. The Android Samsung phones were keeping their keys to their vaunted Knox security in an unencrypted text file in a library outside of the encrypted areas, which was easily findable on their phones. . . this was discovered just three weeks after the US Government certified them for use in holding top secret data. LOL!
That being said, there are third party 256 AES encryption apps to protect your files for Android. However, Android phones are inherently less safe than iOS as there are over 4,000,000 malware out in the wild for Android. Keep your new Android OS updated as soon as a new one comes out and you may be OK. The latest malware to come out can spread by just being sent to you on a message.
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posted on
03/14/2016 11:57:46 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: RetiredTexasVet; dennisw
I now believe that the government already has access to the phones and the suit is a spoofing job to create the illusion that they cant access the phones. They want to publicly lose the fight to ensure that current and potential targets believe that their phones are secure. Don't believe that crap, RTV. There's no truth behind that. Every expert who had looked at what Apple has created here says it is not possible for the government to break it. There are no "backdoors" into iOS. . . and 256 bit AES is simply not breakable in anything less than more than astronomical time frames.
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posted on
03/14/2016 12:01:28 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: palmer
The demand for encryption ONLY to EVADE WARRANTS is small.
And that is the only distinction between the products.
There will still be a huge legitimate market for the strongest encryption.
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posted on
03/14/2016 12:17:27 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Swordmaker
Is there any anti-virus software for these phones.
I have that on my computer, why not on my phone ..??
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posted on
03/14/2016 12:48:43 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
("Peace Through Strength")
To: palmer
Well, I cannot afford an iPhone .. so I guess I’ll do without a better phone.
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posted on
03/14/2016 12:50:05 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
("Peace Through Strength")
To: Swordmaker
John McAfee said he could assemble a team of the hacker elite who could hack open this terrorists iPhone in three weeks . And he is right. Especially if the password is 4-6 characters.
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posted on
03/14/2016 12:52:55 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: SecondAmendment
The "Feral Government" has been openly lawless since the Robert's court fixed Obamacare (x2).I'm sorry, but it is not a democrat or republican thing. The Feral Government has been living up to its namesake far longer than obama's regime.
BTW, I believe the trademark on the term "Feral Government" goes back a long way. :-) I made a post I still have on a BBS 2 days before the OKC bombing that used the term.
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posted on
03/14/2016 1:20:13 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Vote Cruz!)
To: DesertRhino
Its bullcrap and everyone knows it. You cannot crack down on Americans to protect us, telling us how dangerous the world is, while simultaneously bringing in a few million of the very people who endanger us.Amen. A 'safe' world, is a world not living in.
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posted on
03/14/2016 1:23:23 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Vote Cruz!)
To: Swordmaker
MY PREDICTION: The Apple bois holed up in Cupertino will soon be jumping around like Mexican jumping beans. And jumping over to the US Department of Justice pleading to spill their guts on hacking open this terrorists iphone so they won’t be facing prison terms.
Too bad the FBI botched this in the beginning as far as changing the pass code. Idiots!
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:00:08 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:00:52 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: Swordmaker
Given enough time, expertise and “unlimited resources” (can you say taxpayer) it has been done.
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posted on
03/14/2016 5:43:39 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Lower than Whale feces - Benghazi Clinton lying to the mothers of the murdered State Dept. employees)
To: CyberAnt
Is there any anti-virus software for these phones.
I have that on my computer, why not on my phone ..?? There is for Android phones, no need for it on iOS devices.
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posted on
03/14/2016 6:19:50 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: CyberAnt
Well, I cannot afford an iPhone .. so I guess Ill do without a better phone. Buy a used iPhone 5S. They can be had for what you will be paying for that Samsung S6.
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posted on
03/14/2016 6:22:27 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: dennisw
John McAfee said he could assemble a team of the hacker elite who could hack open this terrorists iPhone in three weeks . And he is right. Especially if the password is 4-6 characters. McAfee admitted he didn't know what he was talking about after looking at the protections built-in to the iPhones. He thought they were all in software when he made that braggadocio claim. He admitted he was completely wrong.
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posted on
03/14/2016 6:24:31 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: dennisw
MY PREDICTION: The Apple bois holed up in Cupertino will soon be jumping around like Mexican jumping beans. And jumping over to the US Department of Justice pleading to spill their guts on hacking open this terrorists iphone so they wont be facing prison terms.
Too bad the FBI botched this in the beginning as far as changing the pass code. Idiots! First paragraph is just more of your patented lies, Baron Dennis Von Munchausen
Second paragraph, is, surprisingly, true.
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posted on
03/14/2016 6:27:58 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
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To: All
I cry for the loss of freedom willfully supported by the people who’s freedom is being taken away. They will donate and generate a few hundred million dollars during this cycle to prop up and elect the people that want to take them down. The Jews are now driving and fueling the train that is driving them to the chambers..
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posted on
03/14/2016 6:28:11 PM PDT
by
newnhdad
(Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
To: RetiredTexasVet
Given enough time, expertise and unlimited resources (can you say taxpayer) it has been done. No, you're wrong, because it has to be done anew, each time, on each iPhone unless Apple rewrites the source code. If the NSA had done so, under the sharing of resources required under the DHS, they would not be doing it via court order to Apple.
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posted on
03/14/2016 6:31:26 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: EBH
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posted on
03/14/2016 7:03:19 PM PDT
by
stylecouncilor
("The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra)
To: Swordmaker
Well, Samsun is offering the phone FREE; and the monthly cost for the Data/text/voice is half what I am already paying for just voice.
So, unless the phone is FREE .. I’m not in any position right now to purchase any type of phone. I’m actually trying to whittle down my monthly outgo.
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posted on
03/14/2016 7:10:06 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
("Peace Through Strength")
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