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They’re talking about ordinary phones. Before full-disk encryption became common, it was usually trivial for law enforcement to access data on phones, laptops a
by sjy 8y ago
They’re talking about ordinary phones. Before full-disk encryption became common, it was usually trivial for law enforcement to access data on phones, laptops and other devices physically seized under a warrant. That’s often impossible now that data is encrypted at rest by default.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
- Andre_Wanglin 8y agoIf by "impossible" you mean they have to buy a GreyKey.[0] [0]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/greykey_iphone_.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/greykey_iphon...
- gburt 8y agoIf that is the case, why are there only 2000? The conditions must be more complex than that. Unless 2000 is nearly every phone they touched in that time period?