“The roots of the current standoff between Apple Inc. and the Federal Bureau of Investigation reach back to 2008, with the unexpected discovery of a suspect’s iPhone apparently forgotten inside a bag of diapers,” Joe Palazzolo and Devlin Barrett report for The Wall Street Journal. “”
“Lawyers and investigators involved in the 2008 prosecution of Amanda and Christopher Jansen, a young married couple from Watertown, N.Y., remember it as one of the most horrific cases of child sex abuse they had ever seen,” Palazzolo and Barrett report. “History may remember it for another reason. It is believed to be the first case of a federal judge ordering Apple to assist the government in unlocking an iPhone—and the technology giant not only complied; it helped prosecutors draft the court order requiring it to do so.”
“Court documents and interviews with those involved in the Watertown case shed light on a bygone era of cooperation between Apple and the government, before the two sides parted ways on issues of data security and customer privacy,” Palazzolo and Barrett report. “The 2013 leak by Edward Snowden on government surveillance programs prompted the tech industry both to shore up their products’ security features and to view the government’s requests for information more skeptically.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Only one thing need be stated, regardless of whatever case overreaching governments and their media pawns dredge up to promote Big Brother-esque expropriation of liberty:
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
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Meet Cellebrite, the Israeli company reportedly cracking iPhones for the FBI – March 24, 2016
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]