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Apple: Terrorist's Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody (buzzfeed.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Apple ID password linked to the iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino terrorists was changed less than 24 hours after the government took possession of the device, senior Apple executives said Friday. If that hadn't happened, Apple said, a backup of the information the government was seeking may have been accessible.
Had that password not been changed, the executives said, the government would not need to demand the company create a 'backdoor' to access the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, who died in a shootout with law enforcement after a terror attack in California that killed 14 people. The Department of Justice filed a motion to compel the company to do that earlier Friday.
Had that password not been changed, the executives said, the government would not need to demand the company create a 'backdoor' to access the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, who died in a shootout with law enforcement after a terror attack in California that killed 14 people. The Department of Justice filed a motion to compel the company to do that earlier Friday.
Anytime a court issues a subpoena its a compulsion for some individual or organization to produce evidence (or show up and testify).
As best I can puzzle out, Apple is just resisting the order in hopes that a higher court will support them.
^This. It's a PR stunt, at this point. There's no legal justification for Apple's refusal at this time, having been presented with a valid warrant. If they're hoping to appeal a 225 year old statute as unconstitutional with a 4-4 SCOTUS, umm... Good luck with that.
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
Egregious Unconstitutional Overreach Subpoena: Prove that P=NP, provide working code that breaks AES-256 on a Timex Sinclair ZX-81, derive 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 from first principles, or go to jail.
That's not what this particulat subpoena was for, so you are apparently in agreement with me. "Show up in court with your medical bills for the last year" is a perfectly valid subpoena, right? So why isn't "show up in court with the password to Bob's phone"? Apple has multiple backdoors built in, they just don't want to disclose them and appear insecure. They are just starting to crack the enterprise market and don't want anyone to know how trivially they can break into a phone.
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