FBI cracks I-phone of San Bernardino killers without Apple's Help: The FBI has just announced it was able to access the I-phone 5C that was in possession of the San Bernardino, CA...

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

The FBI has just announced it was able to access the I-phone 5C that was in possession of the San Bernardino, CA killers. Apple refused to help the FBI. What info that has been accessed is unknown at this time.

davidv Loc: salt lake city utah

Good for them,they did there job.

lone ranger Loc: Port Saint Lucie, Florida

Thats because,a israeli electronics company, did it for them
otherwise they would be at square one!

Jerry Kos Loc: Milwaukee, Wi

mas24 wrote:

The FBI has just announced it was able to access the I-phone 5C that was in possession of the San Bernardino, CA killers. Apple refused to help the FBI. What info that has been accessed is unknown at this time.

My question is why did they tell us and terrorists that they cracked the code? :roll: :roll: :roll:

tracs101 Loc: Huntington NY

The less information they disclose the better.

pilgrim1951 Loc: New Jersey

lone ranger wrote:

Thats because,a israeli electronics company, did it for them
otherwise they would be at square one!

Well, the Israelis didn't do it on their own. They obviously were asked to. Good work. Apple could have done something without compromising all iphones...I'm mean after all they're are all "geniuses."

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

There are 13 USA police departments that have these I-phones, whereas they want access to these phones. Drug dealers and criminals. They requested to the FBI to crack the code for them, once they discovered FBI requested Apple's help. I think this will secretly be done for them now.

Fotoserj Loc: St calixte Qc Ca

Let us and them know that no systems is totally secure

Duggy

This story was complete BS from start to finish. But people go on believing their electronics are safe un touchable the nsa had the data when the calls were made. oh silly me what could I know? after all you got your info from let me guess the ever so truthful media darlings.

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

pilgrim1951 wrote:

Well, the Israelis didn't do it on their own. They obviously were asked to. Good work. Apple could have done something without compromising all iphones...I'm mean after all they're are all "geniuses."

But that's not what the FBI wanted; they wanted Apple at the company's expense to develop software that would get around the security and then give the program to the FBI. That would allow the FBI to crack any phone, at any time, with or without a search warrant leaving Apple open to fend off any lawsuits.

Had the Bureau given the phone to Apple and asked them to extract the information for the FBI and then give the info and the phone back to the FBI, perhaps Apple would have been more cooperative. I think Apple was correct in their position that the software would have been leaked within 48 hours leaving all phones open to hacking and thus refusing to do it.

CaltechNerd Loc: Whittier, CA, USA

pilgrim1951 wrote:

Well, the Israelis didn't do it on their own. They obviously were asked to. Good work. Apple could have done something without compromising all iphones...I'm mean after all they're are all "geniuses."

Actually no. The court order specifically demanded a tool that would open all iPhone 5's. The FBI had 12 other phones, NY City had over 120 phones, city of Sacramento had over a hundred. By the time every police force in the US got it's request in, there would have been thousands of copies of the software. Somebody would have sold it to ISIS, every major Chinese manufacturing company would have bought a copy, the list goes on and on. Apple was doing what was best for the United States. Congress initially lined up with the FBI but even conservative congressmen are beginning to agree the court order would have harmed the US.

One Rude Dawg Loc: Athol, ID

Jerry Kos wrote:

My question is why did they tell us and terrorists that they cracked the code? :roll: :roll: :roll:

I can imagine the results if the allies during WW2 had told the Germans we cracked their Enigma machine. We might all be speaking German. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

davefales Loc: Virginia

Jerry Kos wrote:

My question is why did they tell us and terrorists that they cracked the code?

IF the original reporting is correct, maybe they found something that led them to try to provoke action by others in the cell. There seems to be evidence that the terrorists will rush their plans rather than hide in the shadows. I suspect it is hard to keep potential suicide bombers motivated for long periods.

Jerry Kos Loc: Milwaukee, Wi

davefales wrote:

IF the original reporting is correct, maybe they found something that led them to try to provoke action by others in the cell. There seems to be evidence that the terrorists will rush their plans rather than hide in the shadows. I suspect it is hard to keep potential suicide bombers motivated for long periods.

Good point.

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

mas24 wrote:

The FBI has just announced it was able to access the I-phone 5C that was in possession of the San Bernardino, CA killers. Apple refused to help the FBI. What info that has been accessed is unknown at this time.

Great! Apple can go fly a kite! Of course they'll not make that stuff public because the bad guys will hear it too.