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Apple defeats FBI Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 07:13:58 No.548285

By Brian Fagioli

Well, Apple has defeated the FBI. Sort of. Unless you've been chilling under a rock, news of the iPhone-maker's fight with the US government has been everywhere. Even though Apple is clearly on the correct side of the encryption-cracking battle, some people have sided with the FBI. I understand that people want to access the terrorist's phone as a way to thwart future attacks, but when we give up our rights and privacy, the terrorists win.

Today, the FBI is throwing in the towel. Using the excuse that it might have found a third party solution to cracking the terrorist's phone, it has requested to cancel tomorrow's court appearance. Well, a judge has officially granted the FBI's request, making Apple victorious -- for now. While the iPhone maker may have won this battle, the war rages on.

Melanie Newman, a Justice Department spokeswoman, told Bloomberg the following:

"The FBI has continued in its efforts to gain access to the phone without Apple’s assistance, even during a month-long period of litigation with the company. An outside party demonstrated to the FBI this past weekend a possible method for unlocking the phone. We must first test this method to ensure that it doesn’t destroy the data on the phone, but we remain cautiously optimistic."

Could the FBI be telling a true story? Could it really have found a way to crack the terrorist's iPhone without Apple? Sure, that is possible. With that said, why would it delay the court case before finding out if this third-party option is possible?

Think about it -- the FBI is saying the phone could hold important information that could save lives. If that is the case, and it thinks it will win the court case, why delay? If this new found solution doesn't work out, delaying the court case could mean delaying the recovery of life-saving data.

Some will say the FBI is preventing a public embarrassment, and precedent-setting loss, but we don't know for sure. Either way, Apple has won this battle and defeated the FBI for now. This encryption argument is far from over, however. The FBI can restart the case whenever it likes.

http://betanews.com/2016/03/21/apple-defeats-fbi/

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 07:20:42 No.548290

Apple already cooperates with the NSA, this was just putting on a show to make people move to apple products. Since the NSA can supply any agency with their data, this means nothing.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 07:33:31 No.548294

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>An outside party demonstrated to the FBI this past weekend a possible method for unlocking the phone.

http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-ill-decrypt-san-bernardino-phone-for-free-2016-2

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 08:12:33 No.548304

>Since the NSA can supply any agency with their data, this means nothing.

Why do you faggots keep bringing up NSA when it's not needed?

And no, they can't. They need parallel construction to launder to domestic agencies most of the time.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 09:46:45 No.548320

>>548304

Not any more.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/03/10/surprise-nsa-data-will-soon-routinely-be-used-for-domestic-policing-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-terrorism/

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 09:53:24 No.548322

>>548285

Thanks Fagioli and http://betanews.com for making /tech/ great again! :D

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 09:55:02 No.548324

>>548320

Did you even read that article? That's shitty, but it still requires parallel construction.

And what does this have to do with data on a phone that's encrypted? Do you think that the NSA uses wizard magic to get data that's not synced with iCloud that'd be shared with domestic agencies?

No, more likely, it was an attempt to establish precedent. We've had many threads on the problems with the court order, and every thread you retards were in there shitting it up with "lol apple is already backdoored this is just a show."

No, the problem is that telcos keep metadata for years. It has nothing to do with Apple in particular. They had all of the information on who he contacted and such, it was an attempt to basically make signing keys useless by forcing Apple to comply.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 11:17:29 No.548344

>>548324

>Do you think that the NSA uses wizard magic to get data that's not synced with iCloud that'd be shared with domestic agencies?

No, just a backdoor.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 14:06:03 No.548394

Could you ELI5 one thing for me, /tech/?

How comes that Apple is "in theory" able to break an already encrypted device?

It should be possible for them to release for example a broken/backdoored firmware; but this would impact future users/devices.

The fact that they are "in theory" able to break it tells me that their crypto implementation is bogus.

No one is able to "crack" a TC volume or a LUKS volume. Why on earth they should be able to crack encrypted data at rest?