Re: some disturbing news: a letter from apple to all apple customers
This has been a thing for years. It's only now making it into the mainstream because of Apple's letter. Everyone from the president on down believes, with very few exceptions, that it should be trivial for Apple to just write something up real quick and magicly the FBI should get access to this phone. Here's the thing, though. Every recent iPhone with a passcode on it is encrypted. Completely. I can't access it unless you give me the code. More importantly, Apple can't access it unless they have the code. There's a reason Apple doesn't have a copy of your passcode, or a master passcode it can use to override yours. Remember the iCloud hack? If that had been Apple's master passcode, or a copy of your own phone's passcode, Apple would be out of business and I'd bet $20 the US government would put them there. What the FBI wants is a ma ster key. Something that will unlock the phone they currently have, and any phone they want to look at in the future. That's like your local police department demanding you hand them a key to your front door because shut up. If you wouldn't give the FBI the key to your house, you shouldn't be okay with them having the key to your phone.
And let's, uh, rather ignore the small matter of they're looking for emails, texts etc that might be on that phone--which would be easily retrieveable through non-encrypted means if that was really the FBI's goal. It's not as simple as, say, what you'd see on CSI, but come on. If you think they can't call up AT&T and hand them the number for that phone, you're dreaming. And let's be realistic here. They're looking into accounts a guy everyone knows killed a bunch of people might have used on that phone. How hard would it be to do a little old fashion police work here? Certainly eas ier than taking Apple to court.
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