Considering how bizarre the FBI has been, who is this third party? I feel like the department needs an intervention to keep them from making bad decisions.
Given the bad advice they have already followed, I wouldn't be surprised if someone told them to put it in the microwave for 5 minutes to "soften the security."
I really like that "solution", it made me burst out in laughter. I'm still laughing . . . but what if it works???? Yikes!!
The timing is certainly suspicious. No one knows if this is a "win" for Apple or not. I'd like to think this is a face-saving thing but this case has been strange since the beginning.
The FBI already has what it really wanted, enough public support for the Congress to make some changes in the law.
I don't think they have enough public support to get the legislation they want. In fact as people got more educated about the whole issue of breaking phone encryption, the more they sided with Apple. Looks more like a face-saving, shall I say it?, backdoor out of the corner that they stupidly painted themselves in.
The latests polls give more support to the FBI than to Apple and show that people have changed their opinion about the creation of new laws that the FBI was seeking. It probably won’t get any better than this if the case continues, specially if the FBI looses.
"Taking a step back, the San Bernardino case appears to be more of a gamble for the DOJ than Apple. All Writs, as it is intended, is the FBI's last standing option to gain access to evidence, and precedent against the measure could be extremely damaging to future investigations. Apple, on the other hand, has nearly inexhaustible resources and, more importantly, time to strengthen its defenses if it is forced to break a particular encryption method."
Apple should resist this motion and insist that the case go to court. It's important that the (non) issues the FBI have raised are seen to be what they are.
It might be the Chinese. They extracted concessions from Apple to let them sell in China, so they probably have the keys to the Apple kingdom and are replicating and extending them.
The best part will be that -- if this other party really can crack into it -- they may have to tell the judge there wasn't anything of value there. The agency put the country into a constitutional crisis over nothing.
"Taking a step back, the San Bernardino case appears to be more of a gamble for the DOJ than Apple. All Writs, as it is intended, is the FBI's last standing option to gain access to evidence, and precedent against the measure could be extremely damaging to future investigations. Apple, on the other hand, has nearly inexhaustible resources and, more importantly, time to strengthen its defenses if it is forced to break a particular encryption method."
Apple should resist this motion and insist that the case go to court. It's important that the (non) issues the FBI have raised are seen to be what they are.
As they have only asked for a delay and the original court order has not been ruled on, I think Apple still gets their day in court as things stand now.
APPLE WINS!!! I was really scared there for a while. So many stupid people in power were about to destroy the foundation of the best company in history. I look forward to Apple's increasingly complex and amazing security.
When they thought things were going their way, the FBI wanted to set a precedent to use the All Writs Act. Now they look like they are afraid that the precedent to be set would be that they cannot use the AWA to increase their snooping powers.I wonder if the outside party is the NSA. Richard Clarke had been saying that the NSA had the capability, but the FBI did not request them to do so, since the FBI wanted a legal precedent to expand the use of the AWA.
Yup, and here's the link in case anyone's interested:
CLARKE: No, David. If I were in the job now, I would have simply told the FBI to call Fort Meade, the headquarters of the National Security Agency, and NSA would have solved this problem for them. They're not as interested in solving the problem as they are in getting a legal precedent.
Considering how bizarre the FBI has been, who is this third party? I feel like the department needs an intervention to keep them from making bad decisions.
John McAfee. Ha ha ha. Seriously though, probably the NSA.
There has always been bugs that make it possible to bypass security. If someone has approached FBI with a method, I'd say it's a hacker that has found a security flaw, and wants a good pay.
Comments
1. Is China now helping the FBI?
2. Is Emily Litella now legal counsel for the DOJ?
As they have only asked for a delay and the original court order has not been ruled on, I think Apple still gets their day in court as things stand now.
UPDATE: It's now canceled. So I guess that's that
I was really scared there for a while. So many stupid people in power were about to destroy the foundation of the best company in history. I look forward to Apple's increasingly complex and amazing security.
Excellent work, Apple.
fbi, you are shite.
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470347719/encryption-and-privacy-are-larger-issues-than-fighting-terrorism-clarke-says