I guess the FBI needs to find out where the shooting spree couple got that AR-15 App that turned their phones into the weapons used to shoot the guys coworkers? I have a 5c but I can't find the App at the app store or anyplace to attach the extra capacity magazine. on my iPhone.
No, I haven't worked on iOS - but I do have 20 years of programming experience under my belt. The code that handles this particular function (the counter and the wipe) is not protected by the same encryption that protects all of the user data (obviously).
If you understand programming at all - you'd know that for this booby trap to work, somewhere in the code there is a line that adds 1 to an incorrect password counter. So if you change the 1 to a 0, you can enter as many incorrect passwords as you like. Each time you do, the counter will increase by 0 and therefore it will never hit 10.
I know you're trying to be sarcastic but your suggestion would require more than 1 byte be changed and it also wouldn't work. Entering the correct passcode is required to decrypt the user data. Bypassing the passcode entry gets you nothing.
I would believe Tim Cook and his developers over some random guy on the Internet.
That would be a perfectly reasonable choice if you had to pick one or the other - but you don't. Nothing I've said contradicts anything that Tim said. He hasn't been asked to build the tool I described. So, in this case, Tim Cook AND a random guy on the internet can both be right! I thought I had made that clear in my original post.
It's time to face facts: The FBI rigged this investigation to set a precedence. They broke the iPhone 5c so there would be no way for Apple to get the data off it. They are trying to use Apple as an example, but they underestimated Apple as most people do. Now there is an accurate timeline and we can see how the FBI is trying to mislead the American public to take away our privacy and liberty.
So true. All you need to do is look back at the news headlines prior to the San Bernardino incident and you will see that the FBI has been pressing Apple for a backdoor for the last year and a half at least.
Americans are so willing to help out even if it means their privacy and security will be threatened in the future. They say "I got nothing to hide" and they're okay with letting law enforcement enter their homes without search warrants or probable cause. It is those type of Americans who are so clueless about their rights that endanger the rights of everybody.
I go nuts when I hear people say "I got nothing to hide." It is so narcissistic. As if it was all about them. Our collective rights are bigger than our individual desires.
For all those who support the FBI answer this question:
Would you allow the USA government to put a tracking device on the wrist of every single person on USA soil?
The device would have to be worn 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The device would be locked on your wrist and almost impossible to take off by a regular citizen. If you take it off you can be sent to jail. It would track everywhere you go, everyone you speak to, and even record conversations. But such a device would decrease crime and probably would have stopped this recent terrorist attack in California. We should do everything to stop terrorism right? Even if it means giving up some liberty and privacy?
Isn't that right FBI supporters?
What is private is not the governments. What is the governments is not private. Keep Sovereign or keep nothing. Diplomatic pouches are not searchable EVER. As US citizens we are only searchable if we want to be.
Collectively it is already too late. We keep nothing anymore. We are kept.
Think about a hypothetical "Martian". What would the government OWN of His?
What would the government have a right to know about Him?
What right does the government have to know about God? How dare the government think it should know more than us?
Secrets are Gods domain. Unbreakable secrets-encryption are here to stay.
I just had a conversation with myself. What right does the government have to that thought?
The government wants no legal encryption. Like encryption is anti government.
It kind of is......
The knowing of all secrets is fruitless. Only the persuit of limitless power could be more misdirected. I say the government should persue its happiness elsewhere. I think that is kind of catchy. Did I hear that somewhere?
The government should persue its happiness then when it is happy STOP!
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I go nuts when I hear people say "I got nothing to hide." It is so narcissistic. As if it was all about them. Our collective rights are bigger than our individual desires.
https://articles.azstec.com/fbi-vs-apple/
Keep Sovereign or keep nothing.
Diplomatic pouches are not searchable EVER.
As US citizens we are only searchable if we want to be.
Collectively it is already too late. We keep nothing anymore.
We are kept.
Think about a hypothetical "Martian".
What would the government OWN of His?
What would the government have a right to know about Him?
What right does the government have to know about God?
How dare the government think it should know more than us?
Secrets are Gods domain.
Unbreakable secrets-encryption are here to stay.
I just had a conversation with myself.
What right does the government have to that thought?
The government wants no legal encryption.
Like encryption is anti government.
It kind of is......
The knowing of all secrets is fruitless.
Only the persuit of limitless power could be more misdirected.
I say the government should persue its happiness elsewhere.
I think that is kind of catchy. Did I hear that somewhere?
The government should persue its happiness then when it is happy STOP!
Oh yeah the government is US. STOP!