Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone Backdoors

Re:Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone ... by magicalist on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @04:41PM (#6992992)

This is not correct. You're thinking of Apple's "warrant canary", which covered only Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, "Access to records and other items under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act", aka mass FISA requests.

Apple almost certainly has received many NSLs, which is why they can only disclose "1000-2000 account information requests" for the first half of 2013 in their transparency report. That number combines law enforcement and national security order requests in order to keep vague the exact number of the latter. If you take a look at that transparency report[1], you can see they come as close as you can to confirming that they have received NSLs when (so far) you can of course not confirm that you've ever received NSLs.

[1] https://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/131105reportongovinforequests3....

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Re:Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone ... by IBM on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @04:49PM (#6993013)

I was under the impression that section 215 was the NSL since it mentions the bit about gag orders on Wikipedia:

>The section carries a gag order stating that "No person shall disclose to any other person (other than those persons necessary to produce the tangible things under this section) that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has sought or obtained tangible things under this section"

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Re:Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone ... by magicalist on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @04:56PM (#6993042)

No, the modern NSL was defined in section 505 of the USA PATRIOT Act, though it modifies statutes going back many decades. It was section 505, though, that let the FBI go hog-wild with them.

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