Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com)

Posted by whipslash on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @01:24PM from the slippery-slope dept.

An anonymous reader writes: After a couple shot 14 people in San Bernardino, CA before being killed themselves on December 2nd, the authorities recovered a locked iPhone. Since then, the FBI has complained it is unable to break the device's encryption, in a case that it has implied supports its desire for tech companies to make sure it can always have a way in. Today the Associated Press reports that a US magistrate judge has directed Apple to help the FBI find a way in. According to NBC News, the model in question is an iPhone 5c, but Apple has said that at least as of iOS 8 it does not have a way to bypass the passcode on a locked phone.

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Re:The deed is done by unixisc · 2016-02-16 14:08 · Score: -1, Troll

Not just that, see if there are follow-up plots that were planned w/ others still at large. I normally agree w/ all privacy advocates, but when they oppose things like this - breaking into locked devices of CRIMINALS, they really lose the support of people who's otherwise be pretty supportive of them. Except for the Criminal Rights crowd