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"The FBI has agreed to help prosecutors gain access to an iPhone 6 and an iPod that might hold evidence in an Arkansas murder trial" So for those who thought that "the FBI cannot unlock new versions of the iPhone", you were wrong.
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@hfaust Phone thieves can unlock them, not sure why someone thought a police agency couldn't.
Thursday, 31-Mar-16 05:52:18 UTC from web-
@nerthos Incompetence vs. dishonesty, it's better for the police to send the phone to the FBI (now that allegedly have a way to unlock that phone) so it won't lose the data. People said that if Apple lost the case or the FBI found a way to unlock the phone without Apple's phone, an avalanche of requests will pour from local police departments.
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@nerthos In this case, "Unlock" means "Break encryption on, whilst leaving the contents undamaged", rather than "Disable activation lock so you can wipe and sell it". One is significantly more complex than the other, and, as far as I am aware, involves dipping the CPU in an acid bath
Thursday, 31-Mar-16 06:10:49 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark That makes slightly more sense, yet still it's surprising anyone with any knowledge of tech would genuinely think a law enforcement agency with hundreds of millions in resources and experts couldn't break domestic-grade encryption.
Thursday, 31-Mar-16 06:15:53 UTC from web-
@nerthos To be fair to encryption, the FBI doesn't actually break it. They do what any other self serving criminal enterprise would do, and find ways around it. If you don't reset the users iCloud password, and the user has enabled iCloud backups, you can get the information that way, for instance. Alternatively, there's the whole acid bath to get the device UDID so you can run it in a parallelised virtual environment and brute force the code, discarding images as they get locked out.
Thursday, 31-Mar-16 07:18:25 UTC from web
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@hfaust It was never a question of whether or not the FBI could do it, the whole issue was manufactured by the FBI in an attempt to set an anti-encryption precedent to make it easier for them in future.
Thursday, 31-Mar-16 06:12:32 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I'm not saying it was, I'm quoting that because after the FBI dropped the case, some people in the tech community were saying that they did it because it was a 5c, which is less "safe" than the new version.
I know that most of the show it was to set a precedent, but if they went to court they would be gambling their ability to use the All Writs Act when another case shows up.
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