Apple ordered to break into San Bernardino shooter's iPhone

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WASHINGTON — Apple must help the FBI break into an iPhone belonging to one of the killers in the San Bernardino, Calif., shootings, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.


Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, shot and killed 14 people in December. The couple later died in a gun battle with police. The iPhone was recovered from their vehicle in the aftermath of the attack.


The ruling from U.S. Magistrate Sheri Pym requires Apple to provide "reasonable technical assistance" to the FBI, namely, software that can disable the security feature that erases data from the iPhone after too many unsuccessful attempts to unlock it.


Federal prosecutors told the court they could not access the phone used by Farook because they don’t know his passcode. With the security feature disabled, they can attempt as many combinations necessary to unlock the iPhone.


The iPhone in this case was not the property of Farook, but of his employer, San Bernardino County, which consented to the search.


Apple did not respond to a request for comment.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...-bernardino-iphone-magistrate-order/80478844/


I don't see Apple just doing this without a fight...
 
They won't.

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http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/17/cook-open-letter-backdoor-fbi-san-bernardino/
 
The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers — including tens of millions of American citizens — from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals. The same engineers who built strong encryption into the iPhone to protect our users would, ironically, be ordered to weaken those protections and make our users less safe.

We can find no precedent for an American company being forced to expose its customers to a greater risk of attack. For years, cryptologists and national security experts have been warning against weakening encryption. Doing so would hurt only the well-meaning and law-abiding citizens who rely on companies like Apple to protect their data.

Rather than asking for legislative action through Congress, the FBI is proposing an unprecedented use of the All Writs Act of 1789 to justify an expansion of its authority.

The government would have us remove security features and add new capabilities to the operating system, allowing a passcode to be input electronically. This would make it easier to unlock an iPhone by "brute force," trying thousands or millions of combinations with the speed of a modern computer.

The implications of the government's demands are chilling. If the government can use the All Writs Act to make it easier to unlock your iPhone, it would have the power to reach into anyone's device to capture their data. The government could extend this breach of privacy and demand that Apple build surveillance software to intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone's microphone or camera without your knowledge.

Opposing this order is not something we take lightly. We feel we must speak up in the face of what we see as an overreach by the U.S. government.

We are challenging the FBI's demands with the deepest respect for American democracy and a love of our country. We believe it would be in the best interest of everyone to step back and consider the implications.

While we believe the FBI's intentions are good, it would be wrong for the government to force us to build a backdoor into our products. And ultimately, we fear that this demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/full-text-apple-ceo-tim-cook-s-open-letter-fbi-n519886
 
I think that there is a way for apple to help the FBI without threatening our own privacy. The people were terrorists and probably have contacts on their phone that could help find other terrorists. If there is a way for apple to remove the barrier on that specific phone without giving away trade secrets then I don't think that would be a bad thing. I get that apple doesn't want to be forced into something that doesn't really involve them but you would think that they could try and help in some way without sacrificing their company's principles or secrets.
 
Legion Troll said:
The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers — including tens of millions of American citizens — from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals. The same engineers who built strong encryption into the iPhone to protect our users would, ironically, be ordered to weaken those protections and make our users less safe.

We can find no precedent for an American company being forced to expose its customers to a greater risk of attack. For years, cryptologists and national security experts have been warning against weakening encryption. Doing so would hurt only the well-meaning and law-abiding citizens who rely on companies like Apple to protect their data.

Rather than asking for legislative action through Congress, the FBI is proposing an unprecedented use of the All Writs Act of 1789 to justify an expansion of its authority.

The government would have us remove security features and add new capabilities to the operating system, allowing a passcode to be input electronically. This would make it easier to unlock an iPhone by "brute force," trying thousands or millions of combinations with the speed of a modern computer.

The implications of the government's demands are chilling. If the government can use the All Writs Act to make it easier to unlock your iPhone, it would have the power to reach into anyone's device to capture their data. The government could extend this breach of privacy and demand that Apple build surveillance software to intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone's microphone or camera without your knowledge.

Opposing this order is not something we take lightly. We feel we must speak up in the face of what we see as an overreach by the U.S. government.

We are challenging the FBI's demands with the deepest respect for American democracy and a love of our country. We believe it would be in the best interest of everyone to step back and consider the implications.

While we believe the FBI's intentions are good, it would be wrong for the government to force us to build a backdoor into our products. And ultimately, we fear that this demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/full-text-apple-ceo-tim-cook-s-open-letter-fbi-n519886
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Perhaps the government should fine them if they refuse like the government does if someone doesn't buy a product whether they want to buy it or not.
 
I think Apple is way out of bounds here. It isn't like the gobblement is asking for the know how to do it. And it isn't like the gobblement is asking them to do it for some random Joe Blow. There is due process. Apple can request the phone. Open it up and give it back to the gobblement. They don't have to tell them how to do it.

I was always disappointed with the choice of Tim Cook as CEO of Apple. Too much dick sucking on his part. Unfortunately, I refuse to use google for anything so I will stick with the Apple ecosystem despite their douchebag CEO
 
I think its funny that Obama sent out his stormtroopers to take Apple to court and assist them in helping with the investigation....
 
lets do that


lets have a caveot in that agreement that says if you commit mass murder your privacy can be voided
 
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