DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It

zacharye writes "In the five years since Apple launched the iPhone, the popular device has gone from a malicious hacker's dream to law enforcement's worst nightmare. As recounted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review blog, a Justice Department official recently took the stage at the DFRWS computer forensics conference in Washington, D.C. and told attendees that the beefed up security in iOS is now so good that it has become a nightmare for law enforcement."

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Government Computer Skillz

[ryanov]

I've never been too impressed with government agencies and their knowledge of computing.

Welcome to my Nightmare

[carrier lost]

Gee. The government can't spy on you using your own hardware?

This is truly frightening.

Obligatory tinfoil-hat quote

[RabidReindeer]

Well, yes, that's what they'd like you to believe, isn't it?

Re:I don't believe it

[TheLandyman]

As an iPhone user since the first model, I've never been penetrated through my back door... willingly or otherwise.

Nicely done, but lacking in subtlety.

[Minwee]

I look forward to Ovie Carroll's next few breathless announcements:

"Hooh, boy, that YouTube is soooo secure, a person could sign up for an account using their real name and home address, then post videos of them committing crimes online and law enforcement would never ever be able to track them! Honest!"

"You know where the safest place to hide stuff is? Underneath the welcome mat at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in Washington, DC. Really! We did a study and figured out that once that mat is pushed down on top of something, whether it's drugs, cash or big file folders full of industrial secrets, there's NO way that any one can get into it."

"My biggest nightmare is someone committing a crime, then emailing a detailed confession to ovie.carroll@usdoj.gov. Once something gets into those email tubes it's IMPOSSIBLE to get it back out and figure out what happened. Really. You can trust me. I'm with the government."

Re:sounds like a challenge

[wonkey_monkey]

Any sufficiently rabid fanboy is indistinguishable from a shill.

Easy

[Dcnjoe60]

DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It

I dropped mine off the balcony to the pavement below. It seems that it is very easy to crack an iPhone.

Re:Easy

[Minwee]

You're just not holding it the right way.

Re:TWO WORDS

[NatasRevol]

I wish I could anything I wanted in broad daylight.

College would be so much more fun.