Tim Cook Opposes Order for Apple to Unlock iPhone

Apple has the master key or they could not update it. The phone's encryption would stop them cold. Anytime Apple chooses, they can remote into an iPhone and update its firmware.The most important part of any OS is its firmware.

The firmware controls all the features; Apple could easily change the lock out value from XX to unlimited tries or disable it entirely. That is what it does.

Although there are limits based on processor architecture, the same as a BIOS chip on a motherboard; it is the control of the OS. Apple can turn off the encryption or the lock out values and that is how it works. Firmware access controls everything from basic baloney to the highest levels, period.
My hope is that Apple honors the court order before the idiots in Congress say they and Android must furnish LE the master key. Simply said what good is Google's 2048 bit encryption if the FBI has the key? No encryption is secure if someone holds the master key.

 

All smoke and mirrors.


The phone was not owned by the Perp, it was owned by his employer.

 

This level of privacy did not exist before this version of the IPhone and yet we demand it now and defend our right to it even though we are good law abiding citizens and as long as we are, have no need for it. And, all the while the evil among us use it more and more to kill us. I would suggest that if one of old Tim's loved ones had been slaughtered in this attack he would have offered to unlock the phone. As it is, terrorist can continue to use the technology secure in the knowledge Apple, Facebook and Twitter will continue to defend their right to do so. I for one don't give a crap about Apple's moral or financial reasons for not doing so. That one phone should be unlocked and returned to the Feds.

 

That level of privacy certainly did exist, just not on cell phones. Why should an advancement in technology, say going from landline to cell phone, have to come with a mandatory loss in privacy??

The intel on that phone if time sensitive is already useless. What I find ridiculous is that just yesterday they served a search warrant on his brother. Why so long?? The government already has the ability to learn every number that phone has called, and every number that that phone has received a call from, what more do you need? How many search warrants have been served on his inner circle of freinds?

As long as the government defines who is the terrorist, using the word "Terrorist" to justify any action of the government has and will continue to lead us down a very dangerous path.

 

Well that seals it for me,
trumps out. This falls under the category of those were willing to give up liberty for security deserve neither.

 

@whynot
Ditto.

The San Bernardino County Department of Public Health reset the password and apparently doesn't know it?

This is becoming a soap opera...