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So in the last week, a lot of media reports around the Brussels attacks have focused on how, in the immediate aftermath of the arrest of an alleged Paris conspi
by jameshart 11y ago
So in the last week, a lot of media reports around the Brussels attacks have focused on how, in the immediate aftermath of the arrest of an alleged Paris conspirator, the Belgian authorities were premature in announcing that they were learning information about his co-conspirators, which caused those people to bring forward their attack plans.
Now, the FBI has just announced to the world that any information locked up in the San Bernardino iPhone is now in their hands. Presumably any co-conspirators who thought their contact details might be in that phone are now aware of that.
Now, on the other hand, for the past month or so, the FBI has on the contrary been doing a very good job of informing the world, with to some extent Apple's help, that they did not have access to the information in that phone. That may have served to reassure those same conspirators that the FBI was not onto them.. When perhaps they had actually cracked the phone some time ago, and were in fact in the process of employing that intelligence.
Too charitable to suspect the FBI of having pulled that off?
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoAFAIK didn't the San Bernadino person not use their work phone for this? The iPhone the FBI wanted into was their work phone, already Government-controlled. Not their burner phone, which was destroyed.
- jameshart 11y agoAs far as you know. Now consider that the FBI statements about what evidence they gathered from San Bernardino (evidence which is largely not part of a criminal prosecution so not subject to defense discovery) as part of a vector of information which the FBI might choose to manipulate to better enable their ability to exploit the intelligence they have. So what do you really know about work phones and burner phones?