Eh.... not exactly. *IF* (and that's a big IF) the FBI actually did access the data on the San Bernadino phone, it was an older phone without the same encryption system as the current iPhone and iPads going back ~4-5 years. They're not cracking jack shit on the Pensacola asshole's phone.
The government doesn't want a single phone accessed. They want access to all of them. Apple already gave them everything they have access to.
www.breitbart.com
Report: FBI May Not Need Apple to Open Pensacola Terrorist's IPhones
As the Trump administration tussles with Apple over access to the Pensacola terrorist's iPhones, a new report states that federal law enforcement officials have plenty of third-party options at their disposal to break into the devices, which would avoid a showdown between Apple and the government.
No, Apple complies with local laws, including those of China:I wonder how Apple sells iphones in China w/o having a way for Chinese agencies to access the encrypted data...?
I am sure Apple being the Patron Saint of "muh-privacy" tells China to go F-themselves. Amirite?
Hrrmmm....
No, Apple complies with local laws, including those of China:
“These legal provisions even seem to be affecting the operational decisions of foreign companies. In response to the Cybersecurity Law, Apple announced in January 2018 that it would migrate iCloud data for Chinese users to a domestic cloud service provider run by Guizhou-Cloud Big Data, a division of China Telecom. The decision seems to have been motivated in part by joint venture requirements and the data localization provision in the Cybersecurity Law, but it appears that the legal obligation to assist Chinese authorities also played a role: Apple later clarified that it would also transfer the encryption keys for Chinese iCloud accounts to China. This move is likely to streamline the process of providing user data to Chinese authorities upon request, though some have questioned whether Apple’s joint venture partner can act unilaterally if such requests are made.”The Encryption Debate in China
As China has grown into a technological power, its encryption debate has expanded to concerns about the tension between government access and personal information protection.carnegieendowment.org
Chump News did it for them.
video.foxnews.com
Right. China has not yet passed a law requiring backdoors in encrypted devices, although the article I linked above speculates this will happen soon, as it has in Russia. It will be interesting to see what course of action Apple will take then (or when our own police state passes such a law).
They are the only major computer company that has any track record of defending privacy, and they’re one of the only ones where the business model is not selling user data to third parties. No entity is perfect, but Apple appears to be pretty damn good on this issue, from all available data.
techcrunch.com
That’s not the same thing as having backdoors into encrypted systems, for which there is no evidence. They have access to the phone records because the phone companies hand over the data, and we all know about that. Let’s not confuse the issue by then saying that they are omniscient and have everything anyway, and there’s no point in fighting for any remaining privacy.Does the government have access to all phone companies records. Of course. See this link
Quote from the link "Under the government’s so-called Section 215 powers, the NSA collects millions of phone records every year by compelling U.S. phone giants to turn over daily records, a classified program first revealed in a secret court order compelling Verizon "NSA improperly collected Americans' phone records for a second time, documents reveal | TechCrunch
Newly released documents reveal the National Security Agency improperly collected Americans' call records for a second time, just months after the agency
The programs are classified or fouo which they are led under. So I can bring you no further proof, other than news articles. But i can tell you this. Everything we do in the electronic world is tracked.
Lets go outside of the internet. Try to transmit from a modified RF radio above the legal spectrum. Do it for a while and see if they do a RF sweep to let you know you're fucking up.
If you dont believe me you dont have to... But dont come on here crying when you finally realize they collect everything.
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As long as i'm wasting my time pulling up this garbage.. Lets see, o yeah. All your voting records are held by the gov and used by the parties to know more about you. Shit they even tie you Social media to how you think. You dont think they have a complete profile of everyone and known contacts etc. etc. Here's a link for reference: https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/19/technology/voter-data-leaked-online-gop/index.html
"The leaked information, compiled by Republican data firm Deep Root Analytics and two other Republican contractors, included names, birth dates, addresses, voter registration details and social media posts. "
I could go into medical records. Call patterning. Give someone your current phone number and someone can easily get you location data, metrics about you, internet history.
"But the government doest track that much" Let's take Micheal Flynn's case for example. What was something that he was tracked doing to communicate discretely.. He was typing in a google account and not sending the info. But letting the letters sit there for someone else to read. Yes, this was tracked. So if you type in facebook, for instance, then delete it without sending it.... Tracked. If you cannot put these together to get a BASIC idea of the synaptics of tracking.... I cannot help you
www.theguardian.com
www.virtru.com
blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Here’s another article from the same site you linked that you might want to read.This isnt directly related to apple, but it says all it needs to say to suffice the point.
"Stamos asked Rogers how companies such as Yahoo, with 1.3 billion users worldwide, would be expected to reply to parallel requests for backdoors from foreign governments, and told Rogers such backdoors would be like “drilling a hole through a windshield”.NSA director defends plan to maintain 'backdoors' into technology companies
Mike Rogers mounts elaborate defense of Obama’s cybersecurity strategy and seeks to calm doubts about built-in access to companies’ data
“I’ve got a lot of world-class cryptographers at the National Security Agency,” replied Rogers, skipping over the question of foreign government requests. “I think that this is technically feasible. Now it needs to done within a framework.”
This was 2015. And the guy in charge was confident he could get access. Then he just wanted to make it legally into a system.
Here is an article that talks how encryption is intentionally flawed when created (thanks to government interaction) to create direct and indirect backdoors.
"Revelations over the past couple of years highlight the importance of understanding malicious and surreptitious weakening of cryptographic systems. We provide an overview of this d a number of historical examples to drive development of a weaknesses taxonomy. This allows comparing domain, using different approaches to sabotage. We categorize a broader set of potential avenues for weakening systems using this taxonomy, and discuss what future research is needed to provide sabotage-resilient cryptography. "
Now lets get to apple
Encryption:Why Your Default iPhone Encryption Isn't Enough
Apple deserves credit for making iPhone encryption a standard feature. Yet, despite efforts, there still are some holes users need to be aware of.
256- bit AES encrtption
HTTPS encryption
Atricle from 2013 discussing how nsa already had a way through it, conviently.
How does the NSA break SSL?
A few weeks ago I wrote a long post about the NSA’s ‘BULLRUN’ project to subvert modern encryption standards. I had intended to come back to this at some point, since I didn’…
Add all this up and if you cant put it together that we can crack our own encryptions.... Then you're blind.
blog.cryptographyengineering.com
9to5mac.com
