Police believe Grayshift has a workaround for Apple’s new USB Restricted Mode

Re:Police believe Grayshift has a workaround for Apple’s new... by dsfyu404ed on Thursday June 14, 2018 @06:44PM (#17316060)

Two reasons I see:

1) Nobody guards the guards

2) Being anywhere in the process of enforcing the DMCA on law enforcement will end your career (well, maybe with the exception of the secretary and the janitor). You can only cross the blue line once.

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Re:Police believe Grayshift has a workaround for Apple’s new... by taakd on Thursday June 14, 2018 @07:59PM (#17316408)

Grayshift isn't law enforcement though, they're a private company that is creating DMCA violating products. Apple has every right to sue them, and hopefully recover some compensation for how they have sullied Apple's brand.

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Re:Police believe Grayshift has a workaround for Apple’s new... by joshka on Thursday June 14, 2018 @09:50PM (#17316918)

As much as I hate the DMCA, I think this is the perfect suit with only upside:

1. Apple loses. DMCA is weakened for legitimate security research. Yay

2. Apple wins. My security in my person and belongings is strengthened against unlawful interference. Yay

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Re:Police believe Grayshift has a workaround for Apple’s new... by cynix on Thursday June 14, 2018 @11:42PM (#17317399)

Wouldn't scenario 2 potentially strengthen DMCA and make it more difficult to do legitimate security research in the future? That's quite a big downside.

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Re:Police believe Grayshift has a workaround for Apple’s new... by joshka on Friday June 15, 2018 @03:29AM (#17318107)

Yes, but the obvious bounce back would be amendments called for by police to the law. Which puts us back in scenario 1

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Re:Police believe Grayshift has a workaround for Apple’s new... by goalieca on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:26PM (#17325455)

3. The world is a big place and flaws are exposed in other countries.

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