Letter from Apple to their customers (a must read)

[NWSharpshooter]

I agree with NW Shooter, if the information can save American lives Apple should let the FBI read what's on the Killers phone.

 

[Falcon1]

At present time Apple has no way to unlock that phone even if they have it in their labs.

The court is ordering them to develop a new OS which could be pushed to that phone and make it less secure so it could be unlocked.

Reread that. The United States government wants to FORCE with threat of jail a private software company to create, develop, and implement a new operating system that currently does not exist that would jeopardize the security of every apple device around the globe .

I fully support Apple and Tim Cook on this one.

Not only is the US Government trying to force a company to create something (which cost money) by threatening them with jail, but if Apple complies it will pretty much destroy their business in a market they invented.

I think you need to reread my comment. I don't think the FBI should be given the firmware that "doesn't exist" and I did not say it was ok for the courts to force them to do anything. I simply said Apple should use the capability they already possess to unlock the phone on their terms. Do you honestly believe that Apple has no way to get into the phone? Probably think the unemployment rate is 5% too...

 

[NWSharpshooter]

I think you need to reread my comment. I don't think the FBI should be given the firmware that "doesn't exist" and I did not say it was ok for the courts to force them to do anything. I simply said Apple should use the capability they already possess to unlock the phone on their terms. Do you honestly believe that Apple has no way to get into the phone? Probably think the unemployment rate is 5% too...

As a network security specialist I 100 percent with full confidence know that technology to unlock that phone does not exist.

 

[Falcon1]

As a network security specialist I 100 percent with full confidence know that technology to unlock that phone does not exist.

You have intimate knowledge that only a few people on the earth would possess and can say that with 100% certainty? Wow I'm impressed. Tom Cook must have told you that himself then.

 

[Bucket99]

I agree with NW Shooter, if the information can save American lives Apple should let the FBI read what's on the Killers phone.

How is that possible? Saving lives?

 

[NWSharpshooter]

You have intimate knowledge that only a few people on the earth would possess and can say that with 100% certainty? Wow I'm impressed. Tom Cook must have told you that himself then.

No, I just understand how encryption and data security works.

 

[Tactical Chili]

I cant help but to think that this whole thing has less to do with the feds actually getting information off of this cell phone and more to do with power and reach - which is scary.

 

[Falcon1]

No, I just understand how encryption and data security works.

Yes yes that's right you know everything there is to possibly ever know and there could never be anything outside of your wealth of knowledge, we get it.

 

[acejoe100]

I cant help but to think that this whole thing has less to do with the feds actually getting information off of this cell phone and more to do with power and reach - which is scary.

That is pretty much my take on it as well.

 

[NWSharpshooter]

Yes yes that's right you know everything there is to possibly ever know and there could never be anything outside of your wealth of knowledge, we get it.

No, sadly I don't. I do know that the whole key to encryption is to be effective it has to be implemented in a way that denies all unauthorized access to the the data. No back door. If there is a back door, it isn't encryption. Data security with a loophole isn't data security.

In order to get access to that phone, a new version of IOS will have to created which removes security measures which prevent the device from being hacked. Once that technology exists, the federal government, hackers, anybody who wants to could push that same OS to any IOS device and then defeat security measures to gain access to our data.

Also, this would only lower the security threshold of the device so that it can be hacked and unlocked. If the data on the phone is encrypted (which we have no idea if it is or not until it is unlocked) Apple will have done nothing but destroy the security of the IOS operating system and we will still not know what is on the phone nor will we ever know.

If Apple does this, the integrity of the IOS operating system will be gone. The device will be worthless the whole operating system will need to be scraped and rebuilt from the ground up before anyone would ever trust the security of an Apple device again.....which considering it is built off the OSX operating system, which is built off of Linux, that is a pretty tall order.