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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think Apple could have been the "secret phone decoder" for the FBI
Make lots of noise. Send up a smoke screen. Do the deed. Concoct a cover story.
Everyone wins.
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I think Apple could have been the "secret phone decoder" for the FBI (Original Post)
Stinky The Clown
Mar 2016
OP
The FBI already had a contract with the Israeli company and have used them several times.
LiberalArkie
Mar 2016
#2
I think the Feds are lying that they got their data. And if they did I hope apple fixes it. nt
Logical
Mar 2016
#6
Doubt it. And it was never about what was on this particular phone, anyway.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2016
#10
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)1. Except not... An Israeli company, Cellebrite, did the deed...
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11325134/apple-iphone-fbi-san-bernardino-case-ends
Upon edit: Maybe I read your post wrong... Perhaps, you were proposing a hypothetical option.
Upon edit: Maybe I read your post wrong... Perhaps, you were proposing a hypothetical option.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)2. The FBI already had a contract with the Israeli company and have used them several times.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)3. The real story is that it isn't that difficult to do.
In China, it is pretty much common knowledge among the tech people. I'm sure in other countries as well.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)4. So this whole theory
Is just a thought that passed through your head? No more substance than that?
Stinky The Clown
(67,799 posts)5. Does that bother you?
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)9. DU should be about more than CTs.
So, yeah.it should bother al of us.
Logical
(22,457 posts)6. I think the Feds are lying that they got their data. And if they did I hope apple fixes it. nt
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)7. First we are talking about an Apple 5...
A 6 series could not be hacked this way.
Cellebrite"could" well be a vendor for Apple and Apple may have been the party that helped them out.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)8. CT!
CT!
Woo hoo!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)10. Doubt it. And it was never about what was on this particular phone, anyway.
They wanted to use "terror" as an excuse to set a precedent for cracking into the hundreds of phones they have sitting around of people arrested for ridiculous, minor shit like pot smoking.
Same as the patriot act- its really about the ever-lucrative $$$$DRUG WAR$$$$$$