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Didn’t Apple famously refuse the FBI’s request to unlock the San Bernardino’s attacker’s iPhone. FBI ended up hiring an Australian company which used a Mozilla
by theturtletalks 2y ago
Didn’t Apple famously refuse the FBI’s request to unlock the San Bernardino’s attacker’s iPhone. FBI ended up hiring an Australian company which used a Mozilla bug that allows unlimited password guesses without the phone wiping.
If the NSA had that info, why go through the trouble?
- talldayo 2y ago> If the NSA had that info, why go through the trouble? To defend the optics of a backdoor that they actively rely on? If Apple and the NSA are in kahoots, it's not hard to imagine them anticipating this kind of event and leveraging it for plausible deniability. I'm not saying this is necessarily what happened, but we'd need more evidence than just the first-party admission of two parties that stand to gain from privacy theater.
- tkz1312 2y agoFBI already had full access to the unencrypted icloud backup from a few days prior.
- quyleanh 2y agoSorry, could you please give me a source about that?
- alsetmusic 2y agoAs I recall (because I was paying very close attention at the time), the FBI dropped the case on the morning before the first court session. They'd either cracked it last minute or had the info earlier and hoped to set a precedent but veered at the last minute because their case was weak enough not to take a chance. I was extremely angry at the FBI at the time and ranting to anyone who would listen about the privacy implications, so I remember this well.