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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 12:30 PM Mar 2016

Snowden: FBI's claim it can't unlock the San Bernardino iPhone is 'bull****'

Source: The Guardian

Snowden: FBI's claim it can't unlock the San Bernardino iPhone is 'bullshit'

NSA whistleblower rubbishes claims that only Apple can unlock killer’s
iPhone 5C, indicating FBI has the means itself


Samuel Gibbs
Wednesday 9 March 2016 11.30 GMT

Edward Snowden, the whistleblower whose NSA revelations sparked a debate on mass surveillance, has waded into the arguments over the FBI’s attempt to force Apple to help it unlock the iPhone 5C of one of the San Bernardino shooters.

The FBI says that only Apple can deactivate certain passcode protections on the iPhone, which will allow law enforcement to guess the passcode by using brute-force.

Talking via video link from Moscow to the Common Cause Blueprint for a Great Democracy conference, Snowden said: “The FBI says Apple has the ‘exclusive technical means’ to unlock the phone. Respectfully, that’s bullshit.”

Snowden then went on to tweet his support for an American Civil Liberties Union report saying that the FBI’s claims in the case are fraudulent.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/09/edward-snowden-fbi-san-bernardino-iphone-bullshit-nsa-apple
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Snowden: FBI's claim it can't unlock the San Bernardino iPhone is 'bull****' (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2016 OP
an oxymoron? SCantiGOP Mar 2016 #1
Who? Oh yeah Snowy! The pretend hacker that actually just used his co-workers passwords LOL snooper2 Mar 2016 #2
Oh, so now the snowflake works for Apple? Blue_Tires Mar 2016 #3
He might know it is possible for others, not just Apple unc70 Mar 2016 #4

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
3. Oh, so now the snowflake works for Apple?
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:06 PM
Mar 2016

He must be if he's so confident of knowing exactly what Apple is or isn't capable of doing...

unc70

(6,095 posts)
4. He might know it is possible for others, not just Apple
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:11 PM
Mar 2016

Do not expect the NSA to disclose just what it can do, certainly not for a case like this. It would compromise far more important situations.

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