As a megacorp, I've always found it rather unbelievable that Apple doesn't have the ability to crack it's own keys. But if they won't decrypt this phone because they genuinely can't, wouldn't that be a better argument to the Feds?
As an example, my company has customers with accounts with passwords who give us their credit card numbers. We have absolutely no f***ing way to find out what password a customer is using. And we have absolutely no f***ing way to find out the customer's credit card number. That's intentional. That's security basics. If you want to make sure that something cannot be accessed by hackers, then you make sure that it cannot be accessed by yourself. (The password is security basics, the credit card number bit is also because of legal requirements, and because VISA and their friends would be very, VERY angry if we had any ability to find a customer's credit card number).
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Your mention of Jesus is apt.
What America needs is a strong Christian leader who follows in the footsteps of Jesus. From what I've heard, Trump is not that leader, nor is Clinton.
"If you want to build walls, and not bridges, then you are not a Christian".
Donald Trump has a real problem understanding what it means to be a Christian, and an even bigger problem acting as one. He is also acting like a petulant child complaining when the pope reminds him what it means to be a Christian. I suppose he just has a childish mentality.
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I'm hearing two things.
- That there is no key, period.
- That there may have been a key if they didn't change the password already. Apparently the iCloud backups can be accessed, which is interesting? If everything is being backed up, and those backups can be decrypted by Apple, doesn't that defeat the purpose of strong encryption on-device?
One must wonder.
The point of the encryption is not that nobody (with a legal search warrant) can access the device. The point of encryption is that no hacker, no matter how well equipped (for example a hacker with all the financial resources of China behind him) cannot hack into your data.
The iPhone can easily fall into an enemy's hands. Therefore it must be safe enough that even in the hands of an enemy with state resources it can't be cracked. The iPhone happily passes this test. Your iCloud backup is on Apple's servers, and they keep their servers safe from attackers. An attacker would have to break into Apple's servers, find Apple's encryption keys, and only then could they access your data. Apple prevents that. Your data is safe from hackers even though Apple can access it.
The difference is that Apple doesn't intentionally keep your iPhone data safe from a legal search warrant. That's just an unwanted side effect of the security that is needed for a phone that could be stolen at any time. With your iCloud data, yes, Apple can access it, but that doesn't make it insecure. The fact that it can be handed to the FBI if they have a legal search warrant is not an insecurity.
