San Bernadino D.A. Says Shooter's Phone Could Harbor "Cyber Pathogen" (theguardian.com) 253
Mr.Intel writes with the Guardian's report that : San Bernadino D.A. has a novel argument for why Apple should be forced to provide the FBI with tools to decrypt the iPhone once used by mass-shooter Syed Rizwan Farook: a "dormant cyber pathogen," he says, could have been unleashed by the county's electronic infrastructure, and only by examining the phone's content can any really be sure. From the article: The questionable claim comes from Ramos's amicus brief in the case, filed with the US District Court on Thursday afternoon. In it, Ramos supports the FBI's argument that Apple should be compelled to build a one-use version of its operating system to load on to the seized phone – used by the mass-murderer, but still technically property of his employer, San Bernardino county – in order to weaken the security and allow the Government to brute-force the shooter's passcode. ... Ramos said: 'The iPhone is a county owned telephone that may have connected to the San Bernardino County computer network. The seized iPhone may contain evidence that can only be found on the seized phone that it was used as a weapon to introduce a lying dormant cyber pathogen that endangers San Bernardino County's infrastructure and poses a continuing threat to the citizens of San Bernardino County'.
Old News (Score:4, Informative)
San Bernardino D.A. admitted he made the whole thing up.
Re:Old News (Score:5, Funny)
a lying dormant cyber pathogen that endangers San Bernardino County's infrastructure and poses a continuing threat to the citizens of San Bernardino County'.
San Bernardino D.A. admitted he made the whole thing up.
making him a lycanthropic doormat carbon-based pathological lying golem that endangers San Bernardino County's infrastructure and poses a continuing threat to the citizens of San Bernardino County.
Re: (Score:2)
San Bernardino D.A. admitted he made the whole thing up.
Are you sure? "Cyber Pathogen" sounds like one of those fictional words I hear on C.S.I., I doubt he came up with that nonsense on his own.
In more news, the Pope is catholic (Score:2)
Unicorns (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Unicorns (Score:5, Funny)
Re: (Score:2)
You seem like a nice enough guy so I probably shouldn't do this but, well, I'm an ass like that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Don't click that link. My daughter was over for the holidays and shared that with me. She gets a kick out of it. I admit to chuckling a couple of times. The scary part is my daughter's an actual medical doctor. Yup... And she shared that with me. And one about some Salad Fingers. That was just... It was just different.
Re: (Score:2)
I wonder if the D.A. has already booked a tour for himself.
Re: (Score:2)
The Great Leader was in charge of the expedition himself!
Re: (Score:2)
Needs more jurisprudence. You should also ask the judge, "Your honor, do you wear Amicus Briefs of boxers?" Judges love a good joke. Seriously, if you've ever got to go to court for a speeding ticket that you want to fight, make sure to ask him that. He'll dismiss the case and probably invite you to a cake and ice cream party!
In other news... (Score:2)
Holy Water (Score:5, Funny)
The ONLY CURE for a "lying dormant cyber pathogen" is for the phone to be boiled in holy water.
What IQ test you have to fail to become a DA? (Score:4, Insightful)
Lolwut (Score:5, Funny)
The seized iPhone may contain evidence that can only be found on the seized phone that it was used as a weapon to introduce a lying dormant cyber pathogen that endangers San Bernardino County's infrastructure and poses a continuing threat to the citizens of San Bernardino County.
Look, we know they had guns. That's just the part we know about.
What we *don't* know is whether these nefarious masterminds [youtube.com] also had a cyber malworm with nuclearized darkweb spearphishing viruses that could use long-blockchain cloud replication vectors to infect all the computers in San Bernadino AND THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THEM!!
Only by decrypting the phone can we be 100% sure it doesn't contain such a doomsday "cyber pathogen."
Re:Lolwut (Score:5, Funny)
Could these spearphishing viruses use the IoT to vector into self-driving cars and thus, synergize with illegal 3d printer technology?
Re: (Score:3)
I hope it's not too late to amend the brief. The judge needs to know that the threat of a hacked botnet of drones equipped with self-firing 3D printed guns is both real and credible.
Re:Lolwut (Score:4, Insightful)
At this point if Apple do not assist, we can only assume they are harboring TERRORISTS. How long with these monsters be allowed to go unhindered on US soil? Drone strikes are of course, the only answer.
Re: (Score:3)
But some small part of me worries in 15 years I'm going to be standing up at a school board meeting, holding my temples and grimacing with exasperation, "Our children are not, and never have been, in danger from NDSVs! There's no such thing as nuclearized darkweb spearphishing viruses! It was a joke posted on the Internet years ago, and this prosecutor in California kept repeating it because it sounded scary!"
Grumbles
Re: (Score:2)
If it can leverage the power of web3.0 and make it into the cloud there is no telling where this threat to international safety could end!
Re: (Score:2)
If it's so powerful, decrypting the phone won't believe it - it will just morph itself back into the regular OS. It's a quantum virus - you look at it, it ceases to exist, and appears on some other phone.
Of course, that's almost as nutty as the DA.
Re: (Score:2)
If the phone contains an exe file, we are better off leaving it encrypted. I just know the FBI is going to start there examination by double-clicking it on there win-XP desktop.
Director Comey, by heedlessly double-clicking that .exe, you have become the very thing you sought to destroy.
It turned me into a newt (Score:2)
Chuck it in water. If it floats, burn it!
Anyone's Phone... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Anyone's Phone... (Score:5, Insightful)
You remind me of the people who were so afraid of vaccines harming their kid, they didn't let the doctor vaccinate him and then the kid drowned in their backyard pool, because drowning is still actually the #1 cause of children under 5 dying.
You are so afraid of the terrorists trying to kill us by poisoning our water, that we spend trillions on trying to prevent it, which forces us to try to save a million dollars by switching a water source and poisoning water for tens of thousands of people.
You, uninformed citizen, are the number one leading cause of death, suffering and loss of freedom.
Re: (Score:2)
You, uninformed citizen, are the number one leading cause of death, suffering and loss of freedom.
Anyone who modded that bullshit up is the uninformed.
Re: (Score:3)
Re: (Score:2)
Did you see this one?
Sandefur’s son, Larry Daniel Kaufman, was among the 14 people killed at the Inland Regional Center on Dec. 2 as a husband and wife sprayed an office holiday party with gunfire during a terror attack.
On Thursday, Sandefur weighed in on the dispute between technology companies and law enforcement. In a letter released by an attorney representing several relatives of victims, Sandefur wrote that Apple should help FBI agents trying to access encrypted data on an iPhone 5c belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook.
http://www.latimes.com/local/l... [latimes.com]
But of course you're "more right" than them since you have no personal interest whatsoever in this case, you're just clamouring for the principle of the matter, which is obviously always the right answer.
Re: (Score:2)
You accuse other people of trolling, but anyone who takes a minute to read your comment will see that there's absolutely no content other than insults.
So according to the actual definition of trolling:
make a deliberately offensive or provocative online posting with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them
you are, my friend, a genuine internet troll. Congratulations!
Re: (Score:2)
Re:Anyone's Phone... (Score:5, Insightful)
Exactly this. People worry about terrorism like it's a daily occurrence here. Even if we include the 9-11 attack (which was clearly an outlier), there have been something like 4,000 people killed in terrorist attacks on American soil in the past 15 years. That's an average of 267 a year. Given that there are about 308 million Americans, that means we have a 0.00009% chance of being killed by a terrorist every year.
According to the CDC [cdc.gov], 10 people die of drowning every day. That would be 3,650 people a year or over 13 times the risk of being killed in a terrorist attack. But you don't see a "War on Drowning", will calls to ban swimming pools and erect giant fences around lakes. You don't see plumbers being called in for questioning on suspicion of installing a bathtub that could lead to someone drowning.
There are always going to be wackos who threaten lives. We can be smart about finding them and stopping them, but the risk they pose isn't nearly high enough to justify the amount of liberties we are giving up. Whether we should give up liberties at any risk level is another story, of course, but the insanely low risk of terrorist attack makes it all the more ridiculous.
Terrorists, drug dealers, and pedophiles (Score:5, Informative)
Yup. Terrorists kill people. Drug dealers kill people or deal drugs which kill people. Pedophiles abuse children.
And you know what, the authorities and governments fucking LOVE to use those guys to create or abuse laws in order to give themselves new and expanded powers. We already know that there's not just one phone, but at least 17 other cases where they're asking for pretty much the same fucking thing (and none of those terrorists). All they need is a nice precedent and a year from now they'll be using it break open the phones of everyone charged slightly above littering or jaywalking. It'll also be very helpful when they seize mobile devices at those ever-growing "borders" from pesky reporters or political types.
The authorities have already said they don't really know that there's anything useful on the phone (but we have to do everything, just in case). Given the wiretaps and other B.S. they've already been pulling, it's probably also a safe bet that most of it (if not all) they have already. But evidence gathered through illegal clandestine means can't be used in court, so you've gotta set a precedent for a nice new "legal" method.
Sorry, but I applaud Apple for taking a strong stance on this, unlike the fuckers at Amazon who decided the best way to deal with the issue is to preemptively remove device-encryption with their latest (mandatory) update.
Re: (Score:2)
Are you aware that the guy is a known terrorist who killed 14 people? Can't you see how this is different from other clueless IT-related law enforcement incidents?
No, I can't see how this is different from other clueless IT-related law enforcement incidents. Why don't you enlighten us on the difference?
Re: (Score:2)
Are you aware that the guy is a known terrorist who killed 14 people? Can't you see how this is different from other clueless IT-related law enforcement incidents?
No, I can't see how this is different from other clueless IT-related law enforcement incidents. Why don't you enlighten us on the difference?
Who is "us"? Are you on a Slashdot Family Plan, reading comments out loud to your dad while your mom is fixing your breakfast? If that's the case, tell her that she raised an idiot who can't see how 14 people being killed matter.
Re: (Score:2)
If that's the case, tell her that she raised an idiot who can't see how 14 people being killed matter.
This is what we call a non sequitur. Question: what does the death of 14 people have to do with whether there is "cyber pathogens" on the phone? Answer: not a thing.
Re: (Score:2)
Question: what does the death of 14 people have to do with whether there is "cyber pathogens" on the phone? Answer: not a thing.
Yeah that cyber pathogens thing is ridiculous. But there's people being ridiculous on both sides of this issue, such as Apple who refuse to unlock a dead terrorist phone while giving the keys to the castle to the Chinese government so they can spy on their (alive) citizens.
Law is not a simple yes/no thing. There's ample leeway to do this unlock thing correctly without the event becoming a trigger to extensive phone spying by the FBI. Apple is not fighting them for privacy, they're just milking this for mark
Re: (Score:2)
such as Apple who refuse to unlock a dead terrorist phone
That's not the problem. They were asked to break the security on all phones, not just the terrorist's phone.
who besides fanbois will ever believe that suddenly they believe in protecting their customers?
Apple does. Because caving in to this demand loses Apple a lot of business.
Re: (Score:2)
You remind me of those people who, after the latest mass murders in France, said that "the important thing" was not to think that all Muslims are murderers. They probably jerked off listening to themselves repeat that on TV.
You are aware that Muslims are about 20% of the world population, right? This is a fact. If ALL Muslims were terrorists 1 in 5 people or 1.4 billion people would be terrorists. If that many people are terrorists, you'd be dead and the Earth would a crater of death and destruction. But let's not facts get in the way of your illogical hatred.
Re: (Score:2)
You remind me of those people who, after the latest mass murders in France, said that "the important thing" was not to think that all Muslims are murderers. They probably jerked off listening to themselves repeat that on TV.
You are aware that Muslims are about 20% of the world population, right? This is a fact. If ALL Muslims were terrorists 1 in 5 people or 1.4 billion people would be terrorists. If that many people are terrorists, you'd be dead and the Earth would a crater of death and destruction. But let's not facts get in the way of your illogical hatred.
How do you explain that it's not the 80% of non-Muslims that commit suicide bombings on a daily basis and that beheads people on youtube?
Also if you see "hatred" in those comments you sir are in dire need to meet actual hatred so you can learn what the word means. A quick trip to Syria should help.
Re: (Score:2)
When is the last time you contributed an actual opinion to a discussion instead of just throwing insults at people you disagree with?
It's hard to tell if you're "at least somewhat intelligent" if you don't bring up meaningful points.
Re: (Score:2)
The link in the summary quotes them saying the entire attack was fabricated.
You should send your resume to North Korea, they need bold people like you in their ministry of information.
The phone probably contains nothing significant (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
This is "Saddam has WMDs" wtf wtf wtf they REALLY (Score:2)
believe that the public is infinitely stupid!
Could have???? (Score:3, Funny)
It could have anything.
Let's unlock it because it "could have":
1/ The secret to unlimited green energy
2/ A list of the sporting records for the next century
3/ A picture of a cat in a box
4/ The entire global drug supply network's name and addresses
5/ The location of the largest weapons grade plutonium deposit in the universe
6/ The source code for Windows 22
7/ Nothing at all interesting
FFS: make a decent case as to what it probably has.
No, It's True! (Score:5, Funny)
Then unlocked iPhone = biggest threat (Score:4, Insightful)
If the iPhone holds a "Cyber Pathogen" then it must be destroyed, because the second that iPhone is unlocked by an Apple intervention the cyber pathogen could spread through the whole United States and infect everything from your pocket calculator to your android smartphone.
It is a threat that must be destroyed, incinerate that phone right now
(Because I'm just fed up with the whole order to encrypt and denying battle of Apple, that we should all know is a big charrade by Apple, because if it had been requested silently they'd done it.)
Just get it over with!
Not just the cyber pathogen! (Score:5, Funny)
- The solution to a number of longstanding open mathematical problems
- The answer to the ultimate question about Life, Universe and Everything
- Proof to put Snowden and friends in jail forever
- The undeniable identity of JFK murderer
- A tiny piece of code that could make windows much faster than Linux
We do all need to unlock that phone, definitely!
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
But what if decrypting the phone is the only way to stop the pathogen from activating? Crap it's Schrödinger's pathogen!
What a moron (Score:2)
"...and only by examining the phone's content can any really be sure."
It could also be aliens, strange gods, spaghetti monsters or the invisible man and only by examining the phone's content can any really be sure.
But but but (Score:2)
Whatever happened ... (Score:3)
to the idea that probable cause should mean that the cause be near the 1.0 end of probability and not the 0.0 end?
Wouldn't that be a reason to ,,. (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
I was thinking sledge hammer, or shotgun at close range, but that would prevent yet another wave of hysteria being promulgated to further... I don't know ... lot's of ways to fill in that blank.
It is dangerous! (Score:2)
Unlock the phone...and risk the disease getting out?
No, clearly this DA is clueless as to how technology works.
Cyber Pathogen (Score:2)
OMG! The phone contains systemd!
It could contain pathogens - destroy it (Score:2)
There could beviruses that infct humans on it (HIV, Ebola Zika,etc)
as well as computer viruses.
Destroying it with high enough temperature is the best bet.
For example thermite
Someone ate some bad shrooms (Score:2)
This DA sounds like he is on a paranoid drug trip, similar to some crazy conspiracy theorist who forgot to take his asenapine saying that the government has implanted listening devices in his fillings. Rizwan was a food inspector and Malik was (educated as) a pharmacist. There is little if any indication that they had any background in advanced programming. And even the FBI seems unable, try as they might to stretch the definition, to tie the two of them to any significant terrorist organization so its u
Re:Yesterday's retracted news (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Yesterday's retracted news (Score:5, Informative)
Think of a computer illiterate trying to sound as smart as possible talking about a virus for the first time. If you substitute "trojan virus" for "lying dormant cyber pathogen", it sounds a lot more realistic.
Re: (Score:3)
Didn't the bad guy manage to get the FBI to chase down the kids because of a cyber pathogen?
I wonder if this cyber pathogen is named "The DaVinci Virus".
It worked for the guys in the movies... maybe it'll work for the lawyer.
Re: (Score:2)
Think of a computer illiterate trying to sound as smart as possible talking about a virus for the first time. If you substitute "trojan virus" for "lying dormant cyber pathogen", it sounds a lot more realistic.
Think of the San Bernadino computer techs that are most likely now working 24/7 searching all of their computer system for the most mundane of things :)
A blessing for those who out of the blue had all this overtime dropped into their laps.
Re:Yesterday's retracted news (Score:5, Insightful)
Back to the topic though, the D.A. is talking out his ass regurgitating hollywood movie bullshit in an attempt to stir up fear in the ignorant masses to get what he wants. I bet he still believes computers run on pixie dust.
Re: (Score:2)
While everybody is rightly mocking the DA for being an idiot, the term Cyber Pathogen is actually a pretty good one.
It encompasses the whole range of naughty software. A Cyber Pathogen could be a trojan, a virus, a worm, ransomware, adware, some other form of malware. It's the catch-all term that acknowledges all of these are nasty and it doesn't really matter which specific flavour of nastiness it is.
I'd class it as a superset of malware. A worm isn't really malware, for instance.
Re: (Score:2)
It is truly county property, but it would appear the FBI directed the county IT staff to reset the iCloud password, preventing the phone from backing itself up and creating this whole conundrum to start with.
Re:Yesterday's retracted news (Score:5, Informative)
Even though the whole "pathogen" thing is retarded beyond belief, if it is truly county property, then IMO it's a no brainer to let the government access it.
Of course.
The government should have their most excellent programmers access it. No one wants to prevent the government from accessing something they have permission to access. So their most excellent programmers should do an end run around Large Number Theory, and magically access it.
Or they could just apply to a FISA court for a warrant, and ask the NSA for the data, since the NSA PRISM program monitors the communications that would have been used to back up things like the address book in the first place.
No need to involve Apple at all!
Re: Yesterday's retracted news (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: Yesterday's retracted news (Score:2)
The government has it in their possession. No-one is denying them access to it.
Re:Yesterday's retracted news (Score:5, Funny)
Asian people will eat anything. They are disgusting.
Tic
We eat what keeps us alive. Asians have an odd diet due to what's available, Japanese eat anything out of the sea, and the United States will eat anything disguised as meat.
Re: (Score:2, Informative)
Asians will see a pile of shit on the ground and the first thing that pops into their heads is "Can I eat that?"
Gelatin blood cubes, century eggs, dogs, cats, monkey brains, elephant feet, tarantulas...there is nothing that asians won't stick into their mouths.
I've lived in the Philippines, the family invited to many Filipino parties which included a feast of food, nothing there I wouldn't eat except Balut (your century eggs). Yet the eggs seen as quite a delicacy.
Rats, yes at carnival's they came flayed on a stick and eaten as a treat. Again something I've never given a try.
Cats, can't say, they are rather rare and can't I remember seeing any.
Monkey brains, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] says it's a tribal thing. I've never heard of them as food outside of a
Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
Asians will see a pile of shit on the ground and the first thing that pops into their heads is "Can I eat that?"
Gelatin blood cubes, century eggs, dogs, cats, monkey brains, elephant feet, tarantulas...there is nothing that asians won't stick into their mouths.
Of course. Basic human survival depends on obtaining nutrition to keep your body functioning. The first reaction should always be "can I eat that". In that way the Asians are no different than the Americans, only that you at some point decided that you'll eat things based on look and opinion rather than nutritional value.
I find it funny that you have no problem eating the remains of an animal that spends it's life rolling in a mudpile and it's own shit with a side of a chicken's period for breakfast, but ca
Re: Yesterday's retracted news (Score:2)
To misquote Fawlty Towers (Score:2)
"... and I said to her, no no no, the Spaniards are dagos. These people are wops."
Re: (Score:2)
That's the theory, in practice it seems that whoever repeats something the loudest is believed. Unluckily there doesn't seem to be a better system as even the educated would rather believe what agrees with their personal philosophy rather then what is actually true.
Re: (Score:2)
> freedom of speech enables the truth to emerge from diverse opinions.
Still waiting for that to happen...
It's a good line, the article was rather large and I was looking for something short to explain it in one sentence. My first thought were the diverse opinions in a political discussion, the only people who are seen as right or on track are after the election. Yet it's diverse opinions that can sway an election.
.
Re:Yesterday's retracted news (Score:5, Insightful)
No need to even speculate, it's just absurdity on the surface. A totally non-technical person made up a new "security" term to scare people. If you want to find a link countering it, it's trivial - including quotes from the DA that he made it up...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... [arstechnica.com]
Re: (Score:2)
While I think the accusation made by the DA is bollocks, I don't think the story itself is so out-of-left-field as to be completely unbelievable. I could imagine a situation where some ransomware (perhaps a Cryptolocker variant) was uploaded to county computers and it has been secretly encrypting data in the background, and if it doesn't receive a special code at certain intervals it will chuck the encryption key making all that data inaccessible. This would create a clear-and-immediate need for Apple to un
Re: (Score:2)
Both of your scenarios sound absurd to me.
As far as the BFI or anyone else "doctoring" evidence: they would have to have done it *before* it became international news with a case that may end up in the Supreme Court. And even then, given the scrutiny the case has now, if they had done it earlier the chances are WAY more likely than not their deception would be discovered and those doing it caught and prosecuted themselves...
Link to news this is made up (Score:5, Informative)
Link to Ars Technica version of original story, which was updated to say that it is a non-issue: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... [arstechnica.com]
Link to Ars Technica story on the fact that the first story was false: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... [arstechnica.com]
Re: (Score:3)
While the technical aspect is a "non-issue" (as pretty much anyone with any understanding of tech could guess), the story itself is neither a non-issue nor is it false. Rather, the DA is backpedaling and trying to cover his ass. "Oh, there was no cyber-pathogen, I was just worried about what the Farook might have done with the phone."
It is as much bullshit as his initial claim. He lied in an amicus brief to a judge with his initial claim. That he can get away with such a blatant lie to a judge - and in such
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
Its in the article that Apple's iphone security guy said that the "cyber pathogen" was a unicorn. I'm not surprised at the D.A. lying to make his case. Cops do it all the time. Politicians are born to lie.
Naked Picture of Trump and Christie (Score:2)
That's the real reason Christie Dropped out. Well, at least this seems nearly as plausible as the DA's claim.
Re: (Score:2)
Saturday Night Live.
SNL: the Fox News of liberals
Re: (Score:2, Informative)
So you're saying that Fox News is actually a sketch comedy show and not a news channel?
Yes, and just like dimwitted liberals believe SNL skits (like the "I see Russia from my kitchen window" one), dimwitted conservatives believe Bill O'Reilly when he basically says that disagreeing with him is anti-american. Same same.
Did you see that youtube video where they ask liberals where they take their news? Most popular answers: "Not Fox", Jon Stewart and Bill Maher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Yep, those people vote on your side.
Re: (Score:3)
And KKK members, neo-nazies, and gun nuts vote on yours...
Let's see what Wikipedia has to say on this:
The members of the first Klan in the South were exclusively Democrats.
If reading is too demanding for you, try this video, they explain the long love story between the KKK and the Democrats.
http://www.newstalk1130.com/on... [newstalk1130.com]
Besides, people in the video I shared previously are not extremists, they are regular Obama supporters. If you have to use a (flawed) KKK example to "balance out" their ignorance, you've pretty much made my point for me.
Re: (Score:3)
The KKK was founded by Democrats and the membership remained mostly Democrats for a long time after the Republicans fought slavery. And there's plenty of racism in the history of the Democratic party after that, such as Woodrow Wilson who segregated the military and federal employees (which was undone by a Republican, Eisenhower).
Associating the KKK to Republicans to paint a racist picture of the GOP is dishonest and lazy.
Re: (Score:2)
I don't have a link handy, but I saw something in the news yesterday or today saying there was no good reason to think this is true.
It's a very interesting theory legal wise, but I don't buy it.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: Yesterday's retracted news (Score:2)
Straws, Grasping at. Look it up people! ;)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
I heard that the San Bernadino shooter had unleashed a zombie apocalypse virus and the only copy of the cure is stored on the phone.
Or was it that the phone has a timer application running on it which, if it's not stopped, will hack into all nuclear weapon control centers and launch them all simultaneously.
We can prove that any of this is false unless Apple unlocks the phone!!!
Re: (Score:2)
Why don't you post those death threats to an elected official under your real name?
Re: (Score:2)
Why don't you post those death threats to an elected official under your real name?
No need. The FBI will just order Apple to decrypt "Anonymous Coward" and they will capture him/her immediately.
Re: (Score:2)
Then please don't use the
Imperative, then pretend
You didn't. Moron.
Because if it's a polite request... (Score:5)
It seems reasonable to me that San Bernardino county could ask Apple, politely, to please break the encryption. No warrant, no lawsuit, no precedent. Just a customer request.
Because if it's a polite request from a customer, large number theory and computability theory don't apply any more?
Can we get an H-1B in here to do STEM stuff for this guy?
Re: (Score:3)
Because if it's a polite request from a customer, large number theory and computability theory don't apply any more?
No because it appears there is a security flaw where the updatable main CPU software checks for the 10 retries before issuing a wipe command as opposed to the non updatable secondary security processor. Therefore, by updating the main software, you can (a) remove failure checks and (b) do the 10,000 checks automatically very fast. This means the phone can be craked open rather easily. However,
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
2) No proof whatsoever that Apple has built such software for the Chinese
3) All the evidence to date indicates you are still a fascist right-wing troll.
Re: (Score:2)
The phone should be decrypted and the results made known to the courts.
The better to infect them with the cyber pathogen in question.
The first rule of the envelope full of Anthrax: DON'T OPEN THE ENVELOPE FULL OF ANTHRAX!
The second rule of the envelope full of Anthrax: ...