FBI may be able to unlock shooter's phone without Apple

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    The FBI says it may have found a way to unlock the San Bernardino attacker's iPhone without Apple's assistance. A court hearing with Apple scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed at the request of the US Justice Department (DOJ), Apple has confirmed. The DOJ had ordered Apple to help unlock the phone used by San Bernardino gunman Rizwan Farook. But Apple has continued to fight the order, saying it would set a "dangerous precedent".
    Rizwan Farook and his wife killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last December before police fatally shot them.

    Ever since this issue arose, security experts have been saying "surely the FBI can do this themselves?" Well, maybe now they can.
    An "outside party" - you'd assume a security company, but we don't know for sure - has approached the FBI and said it could unlock the phone. If they can do it, the court case is irrelevant. The FBI gets what they need. But if it doesn't work, we'll find ourselves back here to resume the trial. Apple's legal team told reporters it wasn't treating it as a legal victory. The issue still looms large over the company. If the FBI has found a way, who's to say it'll always work? Apple will, as any software maker would, frantically try and fix the flaw. After all - if the FBI can do it, so can any other hacker privy to the same information. If this method works, then what? With each new iteration of iOS, Apple could find itself back in court. The technology industry, led by Apple, has called for the matter to be debated in Congress.
    This case may be on the brink of going away, but the debate is just starting.
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    What do you think about this?
     
    Please just let this lead to a publicly released jailbreak for IOS 9.3.

    I'm not surprised. If the FBI can't handle something like this, I'd be greatly disappointed. I think it's better that the FBI hack it themselves than have the Supreme Court force Apple to comply, but that just might open up new legal issues.
     
    I'm sure the government is able to access the phone without Apple's help.
     
    killer150 said:
    There's no way you can hide from government
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    Well, there is, but it essentially requires becoming incredibly self-sufficient and also completely cutting yourself off (no internet/telecommunication connection EVER) from all civilization in someplace too remote for anyone to even bother thinking it's a fun place to visit.

    Of course, hardly anyone is going to be willing to do that.
     
    CarcharOdin said:
    Well, there is, but it essentially requires becoming incredibly self-sufficient and also completely cutting yourself off (no internet/telecommunication connection EVER) from all civilization in someplace too remote for anyone to even bother thinking it's a fun place to visit.

    Of course, hardly anyone is going to be willing to do that.
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    Even then you have to file a bunch of paperwork and buy the land from the government. Or deal with passports and security checkpoints. Its impossible to be honest.
     
    Let's be honest here, if there is a terrorist attack in the United States (or anywhere, really) because they couldn't access the information on this phone, the government has already failed.
     
    EvilChameleon said:
    Let's be honest here, if there is a terrorist attack in the United States (or anywhere, really) because they couldn't access the information on this phone, the government has already failed.
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    If the government bypasses privacy rights just to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won.
     
    CarcharOdin said:
    If the government bypasses privacy rights just to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won.
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    I didn't say otherwise.

    Which is why I think the people who are upset that Obama went to Cuba to watch a baseball game with Castro (a historic moment) or did some dancing in Argentina instead of going back to D.C. to do... whatever regarding Brussels are dumb.
     
    Honestly, I'm surprised this long for anybody to unlock the damn phone. I mean, come on! This is the FBI we are talking about, with the entire power of the US government behind them.

    I feel like the issue here wasn't the unlocking of the one phone, just the government hoping that Apple would open up and give them a backdoor to use in the future. I'm glad Apple didn't submit to that, its kind of a huge violation of customer's privacy, and Apple really doesn't seem like that kind of company.
     
    The government doesn't have a right to go through personal information. If you get arrested, it's illegal for the police to go through your phone without your consent. they don't have the right to read emails, they don't have the right to listen to phone calls, they don't have the right to read text messages, they don't have the right to read any notes, etc. We lock our phones for a reason. If we tried to hack their system and read or listen to what they're saying then it's illegal and they arrest us for it. Why should they violate our privacy when we can't violate theirs? This would just give them the power to read through anybody's iPhone locked or unlocked. I bet they're just finding a way to spy on everybody (not that they don't already do this without our consent) with an iPhone and get in everybody's business so they can steal personal information and or arrest us on petty crimes. They can't be trusted. Props to Apple.
     
    So CGP Grey just released a new video and it's super relevant to this issue of digital security and law enforcement:



    Thoughts?
     
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