Snowden: FBI Claim That Only Apple Can Unlock Phone Is “Bullshit”
Snowden: FBI Claim That Only Apple Can Unlock Phone Is Bullshit
Jenna McLaughlin
Mar. 8 2016, 4:00 p.m.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says the FBIs ostensibly last-ditch attempt to unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farooks iPhone is a sham.
The FBI last month persuaded a federal judge that the only way to get into the phone was to make Apple write code to undermine its own security protocols. Apple is refusing to comply
The FBI says Apple has the exclusive technical means to unlock the phone, Snowden said during an discussion at Common Causes Blueprint for Democracy conference.
Respectfully, thats bullshit, he said, over a video link from Moscow.
Heres the discussion, which also included Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice, and Dan Froomkin, Washington editor of The Intercept. The comments in question come at about the 30-minute mark.
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https://theintercept.com/2016/03/08/snowden-fbi-claim-that-only-apple-can-unlock-phone-is-bullshit/