Personal privacy v national security - Page 3

finnbow · #21 02-18-2016, 03:14 PM

I'm with Apple on this. They do not have the capability to get the data off of the phone without making changes to the operating system that will allow the FBI to do a "brute force" attack on the phone (use every possible password combination without wiping the phone clean after 10 password attempts). It's an iPhone 5c with iOS 9 which means it has a 4 digit passcode (i.e., 9,999 possibilities). Once this change is made to the OS (or if the software becomes available outside of Apple), nobody's iPhone is secure at that point.

The government is asking Apple to undertake the programming effort to the OS which will both cost money to do and will also break Apple's promise to its customers about security of its phones. Besides, even if they do this, there are available apps that future terrorists can (and do) use to encrypt communications anyway.

Oerets · #22 02-18-2016, 03:47 PM

Encryption....Key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_%28cryptography%29

This is what the Government wants out of Apples source code be my guess. Even once inside the phone the info can still be encrypted from what I was told.

Barney

barbara · #23 02-18-2016, 07:53 PM

I'm just wondering what kind of info they think they can get from that phone that they can't get in other ways or don't already have.

finnbow · #24 02-18-2016, 07:54 PM

This op-ed pretty well summarizes my view on it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/op...p-the-fbi.html

CarlV · #25 02-18-2016, 08:08 PM

I still do not understand why Apple cannot retrieve the information then hand it over. It isn't because they can't, and doing it that way they absolutely protect their product.

Carl

Dondilion · #26 02-18-2016, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarlV

I still do not understand why Apple cannot retrieve the information then hand it over. It isn't because they can't, and doing it that way they absolutely protect their product.

Carl

This is big advertisement for Apple.