Apple Said It Is Helping In The Pensacola Shooting Investigation, But It Won’t Unlock The Shooter’s iPhones. [More]
As a matter of who I fear most, I don't want the government having a free key, either. This may sound naive to those of you who understand such things, but couldn't an Apple tech be the one to unlock the phones under chain-of-custody supervision without giving the feds any encryption overrides, and then just turn over the court-ordered data?
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In the spirit of freedom, Apple shouldnt be able to unlock any iPhone. If Apple has the ability then they can be compelled to do so.
ReplyDeleteBesides, the data is already known by all the applicable alphabet agencies and there are several private companies that can crack even the most modern iPhones.
When it comes to professional espionage, NEVER trust cryptography because it was defeated even before it was invented. Its a scam to have you believe that computer encryption works.
Yes, I work in the field and have first hand experience.
Understand I don't follow these things on a day to day basis, but last time this issue came up in the media Apple contended that they couldn't unlock the phones. There were no back door access points that would enable them to do so. And that was intentional. They didn't want for FedGov or anyone else to be able to twist their arms to violate their customer's privacy.
ReplyDeleteFedGov has of course held the position that this enables the bad guys to run under the radar. But since TOR, the Onion Router which enables much of the activity on the dark web, was invented by the US Navy, their case is kind of weak.
NSA periodically leans on the Navy to put back doors in TOR. So far the Navy has refused.
What Apple is doing is entirely analogous to government organizations who say they will not negotiate with terrorists. It’s to avoid encouraging copycat terrorism. And good on Apple.
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