Re:Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Police Use to Cr...
by bb88 on Thursday June 14, 2018 @01:59AM
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> Is the murder clearance rate worse than it was in the late 20th century?
Why do you insist on this artificial restriction on whether or not police officers should have access to the data on an iPhone? It seems to me this would help the clearance rate if anything. It's another tool in the arsenal.
> As for the rest, I can't tell if you are just trying to demonstrate that you can think creatively...
The internet allows new styles of crimes, perhaps crimes you or I have never really thought about yet. Or maybe I've been paying attention to crimes on the internet lately. And for the record, I'm not the first to think about resequencing viruses. See point #5 here:
https://www.vox.com/2014/5/22/5739380/why-were-never-really-...
And to answer the rest of your comment, your rhetoric reads stronger than it truly is.
Re:Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Police Use to Cr...
by philipkglass on Thursday June 14, 2018 @02:55AM
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It's a high bar to show that encrypted devices enable a new era of unsolvable crimes. Isn't that what you were originally warning about, with the line about search warrants being useless in a paperless society? Such bold claims call for at least a bit of empirical evidence, like statistically significant solve rate declines vs. the immediate pre-mobile era.
As for the rest, I can't tell if you are just trying to demonstrate that you can think creatively, or if you actually think that iOS disk encryption is an important element of a scheme to get away with murdering someone with a pathogenic virus recreated from sequence data. (Or to get away with 3D printing guns under illegal circumstances, or deliberately inducing an epileptic fit.)