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Stinky The Clown

(68,964 posts) Tue Mar 29, 2016, 07:46 PM Mar 2016

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I think Apple could have been the "secret phone decoder" for the FBI

Make lots of noise. Send up a smoke screen. Do the deed. Concoct a cover story.

Everyone wins.

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I think Apple could have been the "secret phone decoder" for the FBI (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Mar 2016 OP

Except not... An Israeli company, Cellebrite, did the deed... targetpractice Mar 2016 #1

The FBI already had a contract with the Israeli company and have used them several times. LiberalArkie Mar 2016 #2

The real story is that it isn't that difficult to do. BillZBubb Mar 2016 #3

So this whole theory nichomachus Mar 2016 #4

Does that bother you? Stinky The Clown Mar 2016 #5

DU should be about more than CTs. HuckleB Mar 2016 #9

I think the Feds are lying that they got their data. And if they did I hope apple fixes it. nt Logical Mar 2016 #6

First we are talking about an Apple 5... Ellipsis Mar 2016 #7

CT! HuckleB Mar 2016 #8

Doubt it. And it was never about what was on this particular phone, anyway. Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #10

targetpractice

(4,919 posts)

1. Except not... An Israeli company, Cellebrite, did the deed...

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 07:54 PM

Mar 2016

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11325134/apple-iphone-fbi-san-bernardino-case-ends

Upon edit: Maybe I read your post wrong... Perhaps, you were proposing a hypothetical option.

LiberalArkie

(19,916 posts)

2. The FBI already had a contract with the Israeli company and have used them several times.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 07:55 PM

Mar 2016

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)

3. The real story is that it isn't that difficult to do.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 07:56 PM

Mar 2016

In China, it is pretty much common knowledge among the tech people. I'm sure in other countries as well.

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)

4. So this whole theory

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 08:01 PM

Mar 2016

Is just a thought that passed through your head? No more substance than that?

Stinky The Clown

(68,964 posts)

5. Does that bother you?

Reply to nichomachus (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 08:08 PM

Mar 2016

HuckleB

(35,773 posts)

9. DU should be about more than CTs.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 08:41 PM

Mar 2016

So, yeah.it should bother al of us.

Logical

(22,457 posts)

6. I think the Feds are lying that they got their data. And if they did I hope apple fixes it. nt

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 08:10 PM

Mar 2016

Ellipsis

(9,484 posts)

7. First we are talking about an Apple 5...

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 08:33 PM

Mar 2016

A 6 series could not be hacked this way.

Cellebrite"could" well be a vendor for Apple and Apple may have been the party that helped them out.

HuckleB

(35,773 posts)

8. CT!

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 08:39 PM

Mar 2016

CT!

Woo hoo!

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

10. Doubt it. And it was never about what was on this particular phone, anyway.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 08:43 PM

Mar 2016

They wanted to use "terror" as an excuse to set a precedent for cracking into the hundreds of phones they have sitting around of people arrested for ridiculous, minor shit like pot smoking.

Same as the patriot act- its really about the ever-lucrative $$$$DRUG WAR$$$$$$

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