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FBI Hacker Says Apple Are 'Jerks' and 'Evil Geniuses' for Encrypting iPhones
- cheeze 9y ago“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair If I worked for Apple and had any part of this, I'd take his words as a compliment.
- cantrip 9y agoI think you could use this quote to justify both sides of the debate. Unlike Google, which generates money from ads, Apple is a hardware company, so data security is both economically viable and integral to their brand.
- MatthiasP 9y agoFBI complaints are the best publicity for iPhone security Apple could wish for.
- mehly 9y agoThis comes us every few months.
- mr_toad 9y agoThe last previous story was less than a week ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-chief-calls-encryption-a-major-public-safety-issue/2018/01/09/29a04166-f555-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-c...
- blackflame7000 9y agoThis guy needs to re-read the 4th amendment. Its supposed to be hard.
- SN76477 9y agoWhat I do not understand is what do they think is on a phone? If they have the phone in possession, then it is assumed that it belonged to someone that has been charged. If their web of evidence relies on a single device their evidence is weak.
- mikestew 9y agoThat means, he explained, that “password attempts speed went from 45 passwords a second to one every 18 seconds You mean the option on every Unix system I’ve worked on in the last 25 years? Either supporting a narrative, or this person is awfully wet behind the ears. ”At what point is it just trying to one up things and at what point is it to thwart law enforcement?" he added. "Apple is pretty good at evil genius stuff.” Oh, rest easy, whippersnapper, we are a ways off from that. It’s what experts call a “design decision”. Keep taunting Apple, though, and they just might start take it personally. And don’t flatter yourselves, Apple does this to keep everyone out except the authorized user, not just law enforcement. But I suspect our FBI “expert” knows his. But oddly when the FBI says “Apple” three times in a whiny voice, an iPhone shows up in my shopping cart instead of an Android phone. My conspiracy theory says the FBI is on the take from Apple, it’s the best advertising they have right now.
- rdtsc 9y ago> “If you have another evil genius, Cellebrite,then maybe we can get into that front," he said, facetiously coughing as he said “Cellebrite.” Interesting, wonder if Apple will see it as a challenge and make it so that whatever Cellebrite is doing impossible or much, much harder.