Re:The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's ph...
by IAmEveryone on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:36PM
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You are extremely casual with the truth; Your post is choke full of inaccuracies. The major one is:
> The government stated that they needed apple to break ios in order to nail a creep. This was a lie.
It was not. The specific question was:
"[are you] testifying today that you and/or contractors that you employ could not achieve this without demanding an unwilling partner do it”
The answer was affirmative, and correct for that point in time. It wasn't quite the "whole truth", but it was true. And there are any number of reasons you'd not want an unfinished project to become public.
Also: the government's position was never that "this man would go free" or that they intend "to nail a creep". That man/creep was dead.
Re:The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's ph...
by michaelmrose on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:59PM
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A lie by omission is still the lie. If you ever have to tell someone that you didn't tell them the complete truth what you really mean is that you lied to/misled them.
Regarding being dead sorry I was thinking of the child porn case not the shooter my mistake.
The point is can we expect to be able to access this data in a time frame which is suitable for this evidence to be used at this trial. The answer is that there was no need for apple's assistance and Comey is a liar.
The governments position was that this man and criminals like him would go free without forcing apple to backdoor their phones.
A solution that is 90% ready works but may require significant work to be ready for an agent to plug in a phone push a button and get root. Anything else is pure wishful thinking on the part of law and order fans who don't want the law to be in the wrong on anything. The fact that it was factually ready in 3 weeks proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Neither an apple assisted solution nor the hack they were working on would have been ready to use tomorrow.
The government stated that they needed apple to break ios in order to nail a creep. This was a lie. The actual worst case scenario isn't this scum getting off. The actual worst case scenario would be us buying the line of bs they are selling and giving up more of our privacy.