iOS8/iPhone6 Encryption

Discussion in 'Technology' started by supersonic, Oct 3, 2014.

  1. The Feds have already hacked the phone's OS and cracked the passcode. But they don't want you to know that.
     
  2. Phi Slamma Jamma...from Apple's legal motion to vacate the FBI directive (CALEA stands for Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act):

    "Congress knows how to impose a duty on third parties to facilitate the government’s decryption of devices. Similarly, it knows exactly how to place limits on what the government can require of telecommunications carriers and also on manufacturers of telephone equipment and handsets. And in CALEA, Congress decided not to require electronic communication service providers, like Apple, to do what the government seeks here. Contrary to the government’s contention that CALEA is inapplicable to this dispute, Congress declared via CALEA that the government cannot dictate to providers of electronic communications services or manufacturers of telecommunications equipment any specific equipment design or software configuration.

    In the section of CALEA entitled “Design of features and systems configurations,” 47 U.S.C. § 1002(b)(1), the statute says that it “does not authorize any law enforcement agency or officer —

    (1) to require any specific design of equipment, facilities, services, features, or system configurations to be adopted by any provider of a wire or electronic communication service, any manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, or any provider of telecommunications support services.

    (2) to prohibit the adoption of any equipment, facility, service, or feature by any provider of a wire or electronic communication service, any manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, or any provider of telecommunications support services."
     
  3. People saying "sh*t" is funny.
     
  4. Shit is pretty funny
     
  5. lol the FBI finally called the NSA for help.

     
  6. Or they had access to it all along and their real intention was to get Apple to create a backdoor into the iPhone to make their job easier. When it became clear that Apple wouldn't back down, they dropped their case.
     
  7. Or maybe they watched this YouTube video and put an intern to work.

     
  8. I think Cellebrite, an Israeli firm, is the "third party" that helped unlock the phone. cmdrmonkey is right though...the FBI hadn't really exhausted the possibilities for hacking the phone without Apple, and was just being opportunistic with the legal battle. I'm sure they also knew that it was likely a losing case in court considering CALEA already exists.
     
  9. I think there was more at stake here than just getting access to the phone. The trial was causing open discussion about the limits of their authority. If public opinion sways they might end up losing more than a single iPhone. At some point people will begin to wonder about backdoors in other programs and then if that blows up international sales of US tech will tank again. My guess is they needed an excuse to get this out of the public's eye.