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  • Apple will attempt data extraction on iPhone of teen lost at sea, report says

    davidw said:
    Wombat66 said:
    Apple could have just as easily offered to do a similar one off with the dead terrorist's iPhone but they chose not to. Why?


    You and others like you, still don't get it and probably never will. 

    Because no way is this going to set a court precedent that can be used against them, every time some law enforcement agency needs Apple to hack into an iPhone. A court precedent that could be used against nearly all tech companies.  And with the terrorist iPhone, the FBI, wanted Apple to write special software to allow them to break the encryption and then hand over the software to them. Software that might be able to hack into all iPhones if in the wrong hands. 

    Where in this case have you read that Apple will go as far as to write special software to hack into their own iPhone or encryption? Right now, Apple is only helping to see if they can recover the data. If it is passcode protected, then that may be as far as Apple will go. But it may not be passcode protected or maybe a family member may know the passcode. Plus there a good chance that some dumb idiot did not (or will not) change a password and Apple may be able to force a backup of the data into their server. Where it will no longer encrypted. Something they were willing to do with the terrorist iPhone, if it weren't for a dumb idiot. 

    And have you read anywhere, that if Apple were able to recover the data from this iPhone, that the family is demanding Apple to hand over or reveal the method they used? 
    Except the FBI didn't ask for the software - they specifically stated that this was a one-off and did NOT request access to the software Apple would develop. 

    Regardless - the law already gives authorities access to phones and their data.  It's only smart phones that have recently become the issue since Apple and others have encrypted their contents and prevented law enforcement from accessing them the exact same way they'd have accessed a feature phone.  For some reason, Apple considers smart phones different from other cell phones.  This is where the problem lies.