On 30-03-2016 15:46, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> The FBI wanted clearly an easy access to ALL devices and a court ruling >> to force other companies into compliance...
> I try not to get involved in conspiracy theories, but this one's just... > outrageous. Why would this be an outragious conspiracy theory? What could the FBI possibly find in that phone that would be so important? Nothing for a court case because the owner was already dead, and they already ghave the records who he called with the device, they can be obtained from the carrier. > So, let's assume the FBI wanted a court ruling to force other companies > into compliance. Which makes more sense? To take on a > multibillion-dollar and much-beloved company like Apple and fight their > entire legal department to get a court precedent it can then use to > force smaller guys into compliance... The smaller company would probably not have gone to court over it and just complied, so it would not set a legal precedent. Or it would just have closed itself, like Lavabit. > ... or would they take on a small company that can't put up as much of a > legal fight and wouldn't get as much publicity? And then, having won > that, go to Apple and say "we have precedent on our side"? That's probably their next step. They just have to wait for the right moment, i.e. a terrorist, child molester or serial killer case with a locked device. > Your idea works only if you assume the FBI is pathologically stupid. I won't rule that out either, but I was not assuming it. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users