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Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Famed cryptographer and Turing Award winner, Adi Shamir, has an interesting if not surprising take on Apple's current legal tussle with the FBI. While speaking on a panel at RSA Conference 2016 earlier this week, the man who helped co-invent the vaunted RSA algorithm (he's the 'S' in RSA) explained why he sides with the FBI as it pertains to the San Bernardino shooter's locked iPhone. It has nothing to do with placing trapdoors on millions of phones around the world," Shamir explained. "This is a case where it's clear those people are guilty. They are dead; their constitutional rights are not involved. This is a major crime where 14 people were killed. The phone is intact. All of this aligns in favor of the FBI." Shamir continued, "even though Apple has helped in countless cases, they decided not to comply this time. My advice is that they comply this time and wait for a better test case to fight where the case is not so clearly in favor of the FBI."
needs to be beaten to a bloody pulp.
It's all posturing on the part of Apple and its tech buddies. The FBI nailed it: it's a marketing ploy. If anyone really, really want to crack an iPhone, they'd do it. Apple's not going to stop them.
You just said the purpose is never to get into any phone period but only to set precedence. Which is bullshit. Maybe they actually want to get into this fucking phone or another one for a very obvious fucking reason. How .much of a dick sucking blithering purist retard do you have to be to not realize there is obvious value to actually getting into this specific phone. "their accomplices were known" That's the kicker. some yes maybe, not all.