Law enforcement is angry Apple and Google didnt make it easy to break into phones

[davidn3600]

The police are upset about Apple and Google’s latest smartphone advances.

The problem is the encryption in both the iOS 8 and Android Lollipop operating systems. It is turned on by default, and there is no master key that Apple or Google can give to investigators, even if they have a warrant.

“Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data,” Apple brags on its site. “So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants.”

Google is not as direct in its security sales pitch for Android 5.0 Lollipop, shipping on the Nexus 6 and (slowly) coming to other devices: “Full device encryption occurs at first boot, using a unique key that never leaves the device.”

What Apple and Google tout as a feature, police see as a bug, and not the kind they can use to listen in on the bad guys.

“Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place,” FBI Director James Comey warned in a speech last month. “Justice may be denied because of a locked phone or an encrypted hard drive.”

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/well-encrypted-phones-on-vulnerable-cellular-networks-102917792869.html

Law enforcement has only themselves to blame. There has been way too much abuse.
Police even got mad when the Supreme Court recently said you need a warrant to search through a phone.

[DeSwiss]

1. Very dark place = FBI

K&R

[barbtries]

2. isn't there something in the constitution about

a right to privacy or something like that? law enforcement needs to learn how to live with that.

[IDemo]

3. I'll be surprised

if Republicans, joined by New Democrats®, don't attempt to pass legislation in 2015 to outlaw the moves being made by Apple and others to protect users' data.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. It will be interesting to see what happens

when the police state's interests come into conflict with a Corporation's interests.
usually they mesh pretty well.