Apple opposes order to hack shooter's iPhone

[ghostsinthemachine]

Apple opposes order to hack shooter's iPhone
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/16/us/san-bernardino-shooter-phone-apple/index.html

this should be very interesting.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. It looks like Apple opposes adding a back door to everyone's iPhone.

If a general system "upgrade" is the only way to get into the shooter's phone, and it has to be applied to all iPhones, this might make all phones vulnerable to snooping by the government or by others.

[ghostsinthemachine]

2. going to be a very interesting legal

situation here. probably going to take years to settle.

[LiberalArkie]

3. There really isn't much that the feds can get from the phone.

Maybe contacts list but telephone call records can give them numbers of every person they have ever called and who called them. Internet records can give them where they have ever surfed and their email. The phone records again can give them feds all the text messages that they have ever sent and received. The only thing I guess they can get from the phone is pictures of the baby and pictures of all their gang?

[TipTok]

4. If they followed the usual MO...

The shooters conducted their texting through secure apps beyond the default texting iphone app.

Those messages are gone in the wind at this point.

I prefer Wickr but there are several.