Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests

Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by x0x0 on Thursday September 18, 2014 @01:09AM (#8333814)

I am no lawyer.

While lower court decisions have gone both ways, according to wikipedia,

    in United States v. Doe, the United States Court of Appeals for the 
   Eleventh Circuit ruled on 24 February 2012 that forcing the decryption of 
   one's laptop violates the Fifth Amendment [1]

So there is hope.

Perhaps a more practical problem is even with a 5 digit pin, it's entirely possible to simply try all combinations. You probably need more than 8 digits before that becomes impossible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_State...

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Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by matt-attack on Thursday September 18, 2014 @04:38AM (#8334271)

> even with a 5 digit pin, it's entirely possible to simply try all combinations

Given a long time. Don't forget iOS slows your brute-force attempts down substantially. I'd be curious how long a brute-force attack would take given the current behavior of the OS.

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Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by kissickas on Thursday September 18, 2014 @06:36AM (#8334537)

Is there no way to duplicate the whole filesystem onto a computer and try decrypting that? I didn't think they would actually be thumbing in every password combination...

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Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by shalmanese on Thursday September 18, 2014 @08:27AM (#8334815)

There is supposedly no way of duplicating the secure element which is what controls the encryption.

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