How do you like them Apples?

Should Apple give in to the FBI's request?

  • Fuck no! What are you, a slimy commie?

    Votes: 8 38.1%

  • Hell, yes! What are you, a slimy commie?

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • Who cares? I'm American and Apathetic

    Votes: 3 14.3%

  • I recant my accusation, Uncle Buck never touched me...

    Votes: 5 23.8%

  • Is Pinworm back yet???

    Votes: 12 57.1%
  • Total voters
    21
oldtimer54

oldtimer54

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It's not about obtaining any information from that phone. ......it's about obtaining info from all phones. What info are they hoping to find that they can't obtain thru standard procedures. They make it look so easy on the series The First 48 .
 
tyler.durden

tyler.durden

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oldtimer54 said:
It's not about obtaining any information from that phone. ......it's about obtaining info from all phones. What info are they hoping to find that they can't obtain thru standard procedures. They make it look so easy on the series The First 48 .
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As I understand it, each iPhone has a unique 128 alpha-numeric (hexadecimal?) encryption key. That's trillions and trillions of possible combinations, so many that it is said if every computer in the world were working on the crack, it could still takes decades. On top of this, the phone only allows you ten failed password attempts before it wipes itself clean of all data. Pretty awesome...
 
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tyler.durden

tyler.durden

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Check it - The FBI paid a million dollars to a third party to crack that iPhone, and they aren't sharing that party's identity with Apple. My money is on John Mcafee. http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-ill-decrypt-san-bernardino-phone-for-free-2016-2 (thanks to @Unclebaldrick for that link). This is awesome because Apple no longer needs to provide a back door to all of their phones, so we are all safer, plus it's a moral loss for the FBI. Now here is where it gets strange: Apple still wants to go to court because Obama had passed a measure that if any gov't agency finds any security flaw of any corporation's device, it must share the data with said corporation within a certain time frame. Go Apple, go! Now they're on the offensive. It is a little scary that the gov't was able to do this even to one particular phone, but it seems a phone by phone basis is the best we can currently hope for -





In less interesting Apple news, their earnings from the iPhone fell 16% from the previous quarter. Critics say it's because their latest phones are too similar to each other -

 
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