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Re: Obama FBI still can't unlock encrypted phone of San Bernardino shooter

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> What a bunch of fucking amateur idiots

The truth comes out...

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/19/apple-government-changed-apple-id-password/

*Apple Says Government Changed Apple ID Password on Shooter's iPhone,*
*Losing Access to Data*

Friday February 19, 2016 3:51 pm PST by Juli Clover

Shortly after the U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion demanding
Apple comply with an order to help it unlock the iPhone 5c of San
Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, Apple executives shared key information
with several reporters, including BuzzFeed's John Paczkowski, about
government missteps that may have led to reduced access to the iPhone
in question.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/apple-terrorists-appleid-passcode-changed-in-government-cust

According to Apple, the Apple ID password on the iPhone was changed
"less than 24 hours" after being in government hands. Had the password
not been altered, Apple believes the backup information the government
is asking for could have been accessible to Apple engineers. The FBI has
said it has access to weekly iCloud backups leading up to October 19,
but not after that date, and it is seeking later information that could
be stored on the device.

  "The executives said the company had been in regular discussions with
   the government since early January, and that it proposed four
   different ways to recover the information the government is interested
   in without building a back door. One of those methods would have
   involved connecting the phone to a known wifi network.
	   
   Apple sent engineers to try that method, the executives said, but the
   experts were unable to do it. It was then that they discovered that
   the Apple ID passcode associated with the phone had been changed."
		 
Apple executives said the entire backdoor demand could have potentially
been avoided if the Apple ID password not been changed, as connecting to
a known Wi-Fi network would have caused the device to start backing up
automatically so long as iCloud backups were enabled. Instead, with the
information inaccessible, [...]		 

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Obama FBI still can't unlock encrypted phone of San Bernardino shooter Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2016-02-10 03:52 +0000
  Re: Obama FBI still can't unlock encrypted phone of San Bernardino shooter Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2016-02-10 06:41 +0100
  Re: Obama FBI still can't unlock encrypted phone of San Bernardino shooter Cornelis Tromp <nobody@holland.remailer.nl> - 2016-02-12 13:52 +0000
    Re: Obama FBI still can't unlock encrypted phone of San Bernardino shooter chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-02-12 08:07 -0600
      Re: Obama FBI still can't unlock encrypted phone of San Bernardino shooter Jeremy Bentham <nobody@anemone.mooo.com> - 2016-02-12 18:53 +0100
      Re: Obama FBI still can't unlock encrypted phone of San Bernardino shooter chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-02-12 12:29 -0600
      Re: Obama FBI still can't unlock encrypted phone of San Bernardino shooter nobody@panix.com - 2016-02-20 05:26 +0000
        Re: Obama FBI still can't unlock encrypted phone of San Bernardino shooter owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-02-20 06:16 +0000

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