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Apple Hires Corporate Security Chief Amid Legal Battle With FBI (fortune.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple has hired a new security executive to oversee its corporate digital defenses as a result of the ongoing battle with the U.S. government over law enforcement's desire to crack into the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone 5c. George Stathakopoulos, former vice president of information security at Amazon.com and before that Microsoft's general manager of product security, is the new appointee designated to be the vice president of corporate information security. Stathakopoulos will be responsible for protecting corporate assets, such as the computers used to design products and develop software, as well as data about customers. The new hire is a sign of increased focus on security issues at Apple.
So Apple just has to "un-exist" it when they are done. Develop and use it in a clean room, then destroy the contents of the room once they hand over the pin to the FBI, if it turns out that the FBI has a constitutional right to demand Apples assistance.
Oh, and then re-create it for each of the next 200 phones the FBI wants into... making sure that no copies every leak, each time.
This case isn't about Farook's phone. Everyone knows there's nothing of use on it anyway... anything of value would have been on one of his burner phones, which the FBI knows he had and knows he destroyed, not on the phone that he knew was being backed up to iCloud under an employer-owned account. This is all about the precedent. The FBI picked this phone because "terrorist!", but even they don't care about this one. It's all about the rest.