Leonardo Fabbretti lost his adopted son, Dama, to bone cancer late last year. The grieving father wanted to see what was on his son’s iPhone 6, but he wasn’t able to access the contents of it. Even though Dama registered his dad’s fingerprint for Touch ID, a restart occurred and required passcode entry — a passcode Fabbretti didn’t know. After months of conversations with Apple support and
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When the government announced late last month that it no longer needed Apple’s help to break into a locked iPhone 5c handset, we found ourselves left with more questions than answers. Would Apple face similar legal pressure in the future, the next time an encrypted device found itself tied to a terrorism investigation? Was there actually anything worth finding on the iPhone central to this case? And how exactly did the FBI ultimately crack its way in? It may be some time before ...
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When the government announced late last month that it no longer needed Apple’s help to break into a locked iPhone 5c handset, we found ourselves left with more questions than answers. Would Apple face similar legal pressure in the future, the next time an encrypted device found itself tied to a terrorism investigation? Was there actually anything worth finding on the iPhone central to this case? And how exactly did the FBI ultimately crack its way in? It may be some time before ...
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Late last month, the saga of the FBI and its locked iPhone 5c reached what seemed like an uneventful end, as the government backed down from its demands that Apple help break its own product in an effort to discover what, if any useful information might be stored on a handset once owned by terrorists. After Apple’s big legal showdown fizzled out, where are we left? In the time since the feds told Apple they wouldn’t be needing its help after all, we’ve continued to follow this story and its ...
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An Arkansas prosecutor’s office was the first local law enforcement agency to request the FBI’s help to decrypt a case-critical iPhone. It’s expected to be the first of many — we know of quite a few requests for Apple to decrypt iPhones that may be retracted and sent instead to the FBI.“As has been our longstanding policy, the FBI will of course consider any tool that ...
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Oh, how it must sting that Apple needs law enforcement cooperation now, after so many adamant refusals of its own assistance in a very delicate and complex terrorist attack investigation! But hands down the most ironic thing about this point of ...
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All’s well that ends well. But has the colossal Apple – FBI squabble on delicate matters like device encryption, data protection and counter-terrorism efforts really ended well for both parties ...
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The past month and a half have been a wild one for Apple, the FBI, digital security pundits, and users concerned with their privacy, as we followed the government’s efforts to break into an encrypted iPhone 5c handset involved in a terrorism case. Apple was initially ordered to produce software that would enable the FBI to easily brute force its way into the phone, but Apple fought back, preparing for a legal showdown with broad consequences. We were all ready to see Apple get its day in court last ...
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Smartphone encryption is law enforcement’s new boogeyman, and the right of citizens to protect their data and communications from prying eyes is directly under attack on multiple fronts. With so many forces conspiring to weaken our phones’ security, we’d been looking forward to Apple getting its day in court to fight the government’s efforts to compel it to re-write iOS code with the express purpose of defeating intentional security measures. Unfortunately for those of us anticipating this showdown,
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From the beginning, the real problem of the whole Apple v. FBI case came down to decrypting an iPhone 5c that belonged to Syed Farook, one of the suspected shooters who killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California. The FBI and a magistrate judge ordered Apple to assist investigators in doing so. Apple has since been
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Next Tuesday is Apple’s big day in court as it fights back against a government order attempting to compel the company to develop software that could threaten the security of its iOS mobile platform. Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen the merits of Apple’s resistance debated to near-exhaustion, and supporters of both Apple and the feds alike are interested in seeing Apple’s motion finally ruled upon.
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If the FBI is able to enforce a court order that would force Apple to assist in the decryption of an iPhone 5c that was in the hands of a mass shooter, the company’s engineers would have several options to resist against having to work on the order. In fact, they could potentially leave Apple off the hook in complying with the agency.The New York Times has interviewed several current ...
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As a presidential candidate that prides himself on “telling it like it is”, as well as his ‘uge dingus, Donald Trump has sure been caught lying a lot lately. Trump University is under scrutiny, and so was the Republican front-runner’s knowledge of David Duke and the former KKK Grand Wizard’s anti-Semitic views in recent weeks.On a much lighter note, Tim Cook should probably be relieved to hear the controversial but surging politician couldn’t stay away from his iPhone for more than a few weeks. Remember
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Right now, the FBI is trying to compel Apple to develop new software that would allow it to more easily break the security on the locked iPhone 5c that’s currently at the center of the San Bernardino terrorism investigation. As configured, the smartphone’s set to permanently destroy the means to access its encrypted data if an incorrect PIN is entered too many times, and the FBI wants Apple to craft a special version of iOS that would disable this countermeasure. While Apple waits to see how its ...
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The FBI, San Bernardino County District Attorney, the local Police Department and all their highly-placed politician supporters have never been able to provide a very compelling argument for why a specific iPhone 5c owned by a terrorist needs to be ...
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