Re:FBI agrees to unlock iPhone for Arkansas prosecutor
by wildmusings on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:14AM
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There is oversight and limitations. The government still needs a search warrant or legal ownership of a device in order to hack it. You're perfectly entitled to make your stuff harder to search, but once the government has a court order or warrant for the info, they're entitled to all the hacking they need to extract the data. Stop and think for a minute about what you're proposing, that the government need to now get a second search warrant for the removal of encryption. That's absolutely ridiculous. If they seize a safe from your home, they don't need special permission to crack it open.
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Re:FBI agrees to unlock iPhone for Arkansas prosecutor
by ihsw on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:47AM
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They don't need a search warrant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Once it is in their possession, for whatever cheap and loose justification, they will open it.
Your argument is under the assumption that they are not corrupt.
Re:FBI agrees to unlock iPhone for Arkansas prosecutor
by akie on Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:01AM
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'Corrupt' has a very specific meaning. It does not mean 'without morals', 'bad', or 'evil'. Whether or not the police or FBI will unlock this iPhone is most likely completely unrelated to whether or not they are corrupt.