What if they find that the phone actually contains some pics of nothing important, a few grocery lists and several e-mail attempts to end a comcast subscription? I bet we'll hear nothing more about it, because top secret.
Well if he jail broke it he could have gotten it on there. However if it's jail broken then fbi don't need Apple to help them break into it.Considering I can't download a word file to my iPhone I don't know how he would get a "cyber pathogen" on there
The curious claim appears in an amicus brief filed by Michael Ramos with a California court on Thursday. In the document, Ramos speculates that the iPhone used by terror suspect Syed Rizwan Farook "may contain evidence that can only be found on the seized phone that it was used as a weapon to introduce a lying dormant cyber pathogen that endangers San Bernardino's infrastructure."
Maybe it can be determined that the DA is otherwise full of baloney but the term 'cyber pathogen' isn't new, if not widely used. It's an extension of the infectious disease analogy....."It sounds like he's making up these terms as he goes," said iPhone forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski, speaking to Ars Technica about the filing. "We've never used these terms in computer science." Zdziarski believes that the amicus is simply designed to mislead the courts and manipulate a decision in the FBI's favor....
https://securityintelligence.com/events/4-ways-to-build-your-immunity-to-cyber-threats/....Like infectious diseases, cyber threats will never be eliminated entirely, but they can be better contained and understood, and their effects minimized. How can this be achieved? IBM has built an enterprise-level “immune system,” an adaptive security architecture to battle today’s cyber pathogens....
It is how the US works...May contain? I mean is this how the US works ... the next law is to base decision on what IF???
IF I was an Apple lawyer I would answer that it might not!
It may be why they deserve Trump!It is how the US works...
See:
Drug laws (You may injure yourself...)
Speed Limits on freeways (You might get into a crash...)
Patriot Act (We have to monitor everyone, so we can catch that one bad guy...)
ad infinitum