FBI Can Keep Details of iPhone Hack Secret, Rules Judge

Well I say bring it to the Supreme Court

 

"The FBI has said the method used to break into the iPhone 5c does not work on the iPhone 5s and later, but it can be used to access iPhone 5c devices running iOS 9. "

ios9, really? lol....

 

NSA listens in on all mobile comms... so FBI flushes 1.3 million taxpayer bucks for a hack that only works in one type of phone.

So for for those playing along at home, Federal government operates both illegally and totally stupidly. But sure let’s give them more authority over [insert partisan topic].

 

It’s probably already patched anyway

The FBI messed up by going wide with this and making a big spectacle. They should have just kept it within the intelligence community/private contractors rather than trying to compel Apple of all companies to “unlock” it. But I guess this is the nature of security theater.

 

That wasn’t their end game. Their end game with Apple was to set a legal precedent to be used later. If they forced Apple to capitulate it would have led to weaker security plus a case law basis to strong arm any company in a similar manner. Doesn’t matter what your political persuasion: governments always want to know what you’re doing and when.

 

In the immortal words of Will Rogers, "Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for."

 

Don't worry. They aren't innovating the hacks it's the open community that's finding them and passing them on to Apple so we are one step ahead.

 

Land of the free, he he he....

 

This was in 2015

 

"whoever told you that is your enemy" -Zach De La Rocha

 

Even with all this political discord, disregarding my feelings toward the president, negative or positive, I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else but here

 

Cellebrite can unlock an iPhone 6 too. It would be VERY surprising if the 6S, 7 & 8 were uncrackable. I think the take on this is Apple is doing a big disservice to the public by continually ensuring us that their phones are secure, where in fact they can be breached (by government entities with big bucks).

 

Not surprised by this. It’s in the government’s interest to hide tremendous waste.

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Your argument is like saying everyone should constantly live in fear because technically the US could nuke all life on the planet. Apple isn’t doing a disservice by staying within the realm of reason.

 

What a total waste of taxpayer dollars from the federal blunder of idiots

 

Why do people consider hacking this guys phone a waste of money?

 

Because the data that they got off the phone led them nowhere. Here is a suggestion for the FBI and law enforcement agencies: do old fashioned police work instead of expecting stuff to be handed to you on a silver platter.

 

That's a bit silly. His phone is his computer and old fashioned police would check that first because it could be the source of all his contacts, money transfers, weapon browsing, targets etc.

The cheaper thing to do would be to go to the morgue, grab his thumb and unlock the dang thing.

 

Gotta love the government hiring those incompetent folks and throw our tax money away.
Just like how those incompetent idiots crashed the Mars Climate Orbiter back in 1998 and cost us over 300 millions!!

 

Except the little issue where restarting your phone or not using it for a while prompts you instead for a passcode and only gives you so many times to enter it in...

 

If Russia, North Korea or other enemy uses this exploit to get access to a U.S. Government Information/Devices I wonder if the FBI with ask Apple to fix it then?

 

But old fashioned police didn’t have to deal with terror cells organised over the internet.
The fact they didn’t get any information is really neither here nor there.

 

So we should all give up our freedoms to pretend to feel safe from a government that cares only about control and justifying its own existence but not one bit about protecting anyone at all?

 

Next step would be a federal appeals circuit court.

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Please let us know how your Mars orbiter is doing.

 

I always enjoy reading these posts. People are extremely quick to defend Apple and their right to privacy, but if the situation involved the FBI trying to access a phone in order to get information regarding the death or wellbeing of one of their loved ones, I'm guessing their views would be quite different. To each their own.