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FBI Telling Congress How It Hacked iPhone (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: According to a new report in National Journal, the FBI has already briefed Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) on the methods used to break into the iPhone at the center of Apple's recent legal fight. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) is also scheduled to be briefed on the topic in the days to come. [Feinstein and Burr are both working on a new bill to limit the use of encryption in consumer technology, expected to be made public in the weeks to come.] The disclosures come amid widespread calls for the attack to be made public, particularly from privacy and technology groups. However the FBI's new method works, the ability to unlock an iPhone without knowing its passcode represents a significant break in Apple's security measures, one Apple would surely like to protect against if it hasn't already. Just days after the FBI broke into the terrorist's iPhone, the FBI told law enforcement agencies it would assist them with unlocking phones and other electronic devices. We still do not know how the iPhone was hacked, nor do we know how many iPhones may be able to be unlocked from the hack. The FBI did tell USA Today the hack has not been used in any other case beyond San Bernardino.
But seeing "Trump 2016" chalked onto a sidewalk will make those same weak-willed twits wail in horror?
Awww, such special snowflakes!
I'm older, but at 18 or 20 years old my father and grandfather were jumping out of troopships while being shelled and shot at....but millennials shit their pants if the rice in the school cafeteria isn't "authentic" to the way they make sushi in Japan. I'm not making this up.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
And yet most of Europe send to be functioning rather well and with less government intrusion on their lives than the good old land of the free-to-have-all-aspects-of-life-recorded-by-the-government.