Re:Cook: 'This Is Not What Should Be Happening in This Country'
by malchow on Thursday February 25, 2016 @05:29PM
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This.
Apple is going to lose this, and it should, under the law. It should also be free to develop a Secure Enclave that prevents iOS updates in lock, which sounds as though it is already in development.
Re:Cook: 'This Is Not What Should Be Happening in This Country'
by dragonwriter on Thursday February 25, 2016 @05:12PM
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> 1) There is no search warrant in the case in question, but an order under the All Writs act.
I was under the impression that there is a search warrant that the government has secured to search the phone, and an order under the All Writs Act dragooning Apple into writing custom software to support the search authorized by the warrant.
Re:Cook: 'This Is Not What Should Be Happening in This Country'
by jMyles on Thursday February 25, 2016 @05:27PM
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Right, right. By "the case in question," I meant FBI v. Apple (ie, the case out of which the court order came, whatever it ends up being called).
Re:Cook: 'This Is Not What Should Be Happening in This Country'
by r00fus on Thursday February 25, 2016 @05:23PM
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So what Apple is fighting against is the "dragooning"
Re:Cook: 'This Is Not What Should Be Happening in This Country'
by jhayward on Thursday February 25, 2016 @05:28PM
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There is indeed a warrant. The writ was issued to effectuate the warrant.
Re:Cook: 'This Is Not What Should Be Happening in This Country'
by jMyles on Thursday February 25, 2016 @05:56PM
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Right, sure. I meant that there is no search warrant at issue in FBI v. Apple (or whatever the case ends up being called). Nobody disputes that the FBI properly effected a search warrant against the home of the shooters.
But Apple is not a party to that document, and its legitimacy is not in dispute in this case.
2) If Apple had designed the phone properly in the first place (ie, impenetrable even with their help), then they would indeed be protected from attacks via search warrant.
A sufficiently robust security solution doesn't care whether the attack happens to come from the state.