“The Justice Department is expected to withdraw from its legal action against Apple, as soon as today, as an outside method to bypass the locking function of a San Bernardino terrorist’s phone has proved successful, a federal law enforcement official said Monday.,” Kevin Johnson and Jon Swartz report for USA Today.
“The official, who is not authorized to comment publicly, said the method brought to the FBI earlier this month by an unidentified entity allows investigators to crack the security function without erasing contents of the iPhone,” Johnson and Swartz report.
Johnson and Swartz report, “‘It’s not about one phone. It’s very much about the future,’ Cook said in an interview with Time last week. ‘You have a guy in Manhattan saying I’ve got a hundred and seventy-five phones that I want to take through this process. You’ve got other cases springing up all over the place where they want phones taken through the process. So it’s not about one phone, and they know it’s not about one phone.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: This method shuld be shared with Apple, so that they can close this hole for good.
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Up yours Comey, you chicken shit liar.
I wonder if they really cracked that iPhone or are they just trying to exit an embarrassing position. Congress was likely to slap them down. We’ll know more if they release what was on the iPhone.
If Apple was certain iPhone was impenetrable Apple would not be begging for information from FBI. Apple’s sudden concern that FBI has cracked iPhone reveals the fear that iOS encryption may not be as strong as promoted. Tim Cook is shitting himself not knowing what flaws were exploited by FBI. Well, Tim, back to the drawing boards, you arrogan ass. Quit bitching about FBI intransigence and start building a more secure OS like you claimed existed.
I believe the term “Joe” is more appropriately for a “arrogan ass.”
Grow up.
Total BS, Joe. First, Apple never claimed that the iPhone is “impenetrable.” Second, Apple told the FBI to take care of it themselves. What Apple legitimately objected to is creating a tool to circumvent their own iOS security. Third, Apple is not “begging” for anything. They have reasonably requested information regarding a potential security weakness so that they can block future exploitation. Lastly, GFY.
“This method shuld be shared with Apple, so that they can close this hole for good.” (that should be should MDN).
Nice thought MDN but this is a better mouse/better mouse trap game and the mice have won the round. You don’t give away the secret ingredients as to how you circumvent Apple for a few reasons:
1. One, there is no law that says that law enforcement has to service the people. Oh wait there is probably one, but it is or will be pretty well ignored.
2. Tit for tat, Apple wasn’t going to give away it’s better mouse secret, they should not expect FIB to give away there secret, for insecurity reasons of course. I mean how the heck can you control a population with terror and fear if they have an empowering device to keep their secrets. Apple knows that one company knows how to hack their phones.
It just makes them build a better mousetrap.
Now we resume the machinations of this nation as it continues its assault upon the free and civilized of the world.
“give away it’s better mouse secret”
(that should be “its”, RW)
“not expect FIB to give away there secret”
(that should be “their”, RW)
Ah my moist common missteaks, thanks Skydiver. I’ll join the calls of others who comment from time to time on how nice it would be to have an editor at their favorite site.
Did you people really believe that Apple iPhone could not be cracked? All the FBI needed was a legal way so they can use evidence in court. They can crack any and all phones.
What proof do you have that it was cracked?
Do share.
Apple’s begging FBI is evidence enough that Apple believes that FBI was successful.
Given that the FBI lawfully had the phone in their possession, had the owner’s permission to open it, and an unquestionably valid search warrant, ANY way the Government cracked it would have been legal and led to admissible evidence (assuming that there ever was anything useful on the device in the first place). Under what theory do you imagine that it would not be?
Yes and why didn’t the owner have the password? Shouldn’t they be criticized for allowing terrorist to hide information?
Seems like they have been able to extract a copy of the encrypted data from the hardware memory and been able to decrypt the copy without destroying the data on the iPhone.
I call bullshit. That, or it was a bunch of cat videos. Another save face cowardly move by the FBI.
We’ll only know if they truly got into the iPhone if there are further arrests in the matter followed by a trial. Otherwise the FIB (thanks RW) will never tell.
No arrests are needed. CIA doesn’t need to make an arrest. Any and all information gleaned will ultimately end painfully and terminally from those that war against USA. You will never know who was detained, interrogated, or killed. Are the harsh realities of war ignorant to you?
Excuse me! Not!! You need some education troll. The FIB investigates, technically, not the cia here in America. If you read about someone being arrested in conjunction with the FIB investigation you might surmise that they learned something. A federal attorney, if so inclined, would prosecute the alleged perpetrator(s) based upon evidence provided by the FIB. At trial, the defense will find out what evidence there is and where it came from. With no prosecution the information gained will stay silent.
FBI and CIA are not legally, ethically, or morally prohibited from sharing information, nitwit. In fact, both FBI and CIA and NSA et al are encouraged to do so.
Well if Apple wants it bad enough there is no stopping them from buying the solution from these folks, correct?
But then Apple would have to use the company as a tool to open iPhones or whatever they do. Let the company stay where they are.
There is no new method, FBI made that story to save the agency from the shame of loss I g the battle against Apple and also because if they decided to keep going the way and lose the case in court, is will also set a very bad precedent so lossing against public companies. So in order to leave the fight with some dignity, the invented that story about the new method.
Little embarrassing for Apple isn’t it?
Just you trolls love it!
All we know is that “A federal law enforcement official” ***said*** they cracked the San Bernardino iPhone…
I, for one, do not believe the Feds. They have proven to be untrustworthy.
I’d suspect they realized that the phone wasn’t actually set to wipe itself after 10 tries, so now they are trying to sow some worries amongst the Bad Guys that they can actually crack their iPhones.
Or, alternatively, they didn’t crack the phone and decided they didn’t need the precedent cemented into case law that you can’t force a company to develop a technology without there being actual legislation that specifically requires it.
Even it it was actually cracked, it’s an obsolete version of the phone, so the general importance here is pretty minimal.
Regardless, where is the triumphant announcement of all the “secrets” they got off the “cracked” phone. Oh wait, give them 24 hours to say they used the information to stop the next plot…
They may ***say*** it. But it is most likely not true.
Heads should roll — people should be fired — over all this dishonesty.
Lynch. Comey. And others. Fire the dishonest S.O.B.s
Now, about that allegedly forthcoming enhanced encryption for iOS9x and the user-encrypted iCloud data. Since the Feds have an iOS8 phone the newer iOS units *should* be a lot more secure. The San Bernadino data was probably pretty costly to get to (and might still be encrypted) but, hey, it’s only taxpayer money.
Personally think they found a way to make an image of the device before they made the 10th attempt at the passcode. They are using that image on another phone and if it’s wrong and wipes they just restore again.
There was nothing on that phone. Why do you think the personal phone was destroyed and this one left untouched?
Good grief. All this over a phone with photos of school lunchrooms.
Hasn’t it always been said that anything made by man can be broken by man? It just takes a matter of time and determination. I sort of figured if humans were able to break the encryption of the infamous Enigma machines of World War 2, it would only be a matter of time before someone came along and broke Apple’s encryption. I’m not saying it happened already, I’m only saying it’s probably possible at some point. It’s scary but humans are really amazing creatures when it comes to solving highly complicated puzzles when motivated to do so. They latch on to a problem and don’t let go until a solution is found.
“They latch on to a problem and don’t let go until a solution is found.”
So that’s why you are a constant troll here. I get it now.
FBI finally broke-down and called NSA for help. As Snowden already revealed, NSA keeps a portfolio of unknown iPhone hacks. Saying the solution came from a 3rd party is just a cover story.
Now I want the FBI to share with us all the wonderful info they gathered from that phone that made it worth all the effort to smear Apple.
The person who said that FBI was able to crack the phone did not want to be identified even though the announcement is official. Why does FBI not others to know who said that? Could it be that they actually did not crack the phone, but FBI is trying to get out without losing the face. Last week, the FBI asked the judge at the ELEVENTH HOUR to postpone the case, so it did seem suspicious at that time. And now an official announcement from an unidentified person that they cracked the phone so they do not need help from Apple.
Let be honest
Apple have won for all the right reasons and IF the FBI can get into an iPhone in this much more difficult and expensive way of backward engineering the whole chip then at least they can find what they need also but with the time and expense it will take and there for they will have to select exactly from the few illegal people that need capturing rather than a backdoor to even ones personal information.
it’s a win win and hopefully the FBI won’t try and cross the line again and will now on do the foot work they are paid to do rather than expect others to do it for them while stamping on everyones constitutional rights to privicy.