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This requires the source code. And it would be greatly helped along if the people who wrote that source code also did the work. Not having the source code or the people most up to date with it is not a plan for an easy task, it's a plan for a very risky hack job.

Apple could easily do this and return the phone to the FBI, never having revealed the source code they wrote to achieve the feat.

John McAfee on the other hand, not a good plan.

Here is the full document, only three pages and an easy read:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2714001/SB-Shooter-Order-Compelling-Apple-Asst-iPhone.pdf

Apple's refusal to help with a terror investigation where 14 people were butchered has erased my sympathy and appreciation for them. At this point I am ready to see Tim Cook perp walked into a jail cell and am now annoyed it has not yet been done.

What has been asked of them is easy for Apple to do and would cost them nothing. The court has directed that Apple be paid for its work. The court allowed that Apple could contain the work to their own facility. The court order makes it clear that the hack should be keyed to the phone's unique identity and that it must not work on any other phone. If Apple has further concerns over containing their modified OS they should propose additional security safeguards. Be a part of the solution, haggle this thing out. Not pull a Public Relations stunt, which is all this is truly about.

For example Apple could have proposed:

1. No network connectivity. Do the work on isolated, stand-alone computers.

2. Isolation from cell tower and wi-fi signals. This can be done with commercially available jammers or a Faraday cage room. Or both.

3. No viewing of the OS source code by non-Apple employees.

4. The phone leaves Apple facility only with the original OS and content restored, not with the altered OS.

5. Apple makes it clear they will destroy the work when finished. They should not do that, but they are behaving like spoiled brats so I expect them to do this anyway.

The only reason Cook is not making such a counter offer is because he does not want to be involved in solving crimes. Not even if he is paid to do so. Because the world's troubles are not Apple's concern, only PROFIT is Apple's concern.

Hope this effort to break the cable provider strangle hold succeeds. It would open up a new market, bring more innovation and price competition at the same time. Long overdue!!!

boltsfan17 said:

foggyhill said:

How is it different? If they have to put in the software to enable this in the future, it's the same thing.
Both the GOP and Dems are talking crap on this subject : they are of the same demagogic voice.

Also, they don't realize that if they allow this, this will essentially kill most Apple sales world wide...

There is some huge hellish mound of myopia from all politicians in the US.

If Apple loses this fight, what's going to stop countries like China, Russia, etc from forcing Apple to do the same thing since the U.S. government did it. 

What does or does not happen in American courts is meaningless to the Chinese and Russians. China already has a law to force tech companies to provide backdoors to connected devices. They are just beginning to enforce it. Neither the communists nor Russia's strong man government need wait upon America's FBI to give them ideas on this.

Apple should move to comply with the FBI immediately by making a counter-proposal. Either Apple maintains physical security of the hack effort on their own premises, giving nothing back to the FBI but the resulting data, or the fight climbs to the Supreme Court.

I would also appreciate hearing Apple demonstrate that they understand the nature of warfare has changed, or at least expanded. This is a war and they are not displaying the sort of comprehension they should have of what is reasonable to expected of good citizens.