If you’re familiar with the history of a lot of this the FBI made a big push for everyone to use encryption to prevent cyber crimes now they’re only interested in encryption schemes that they hold some sort of backdoor to :lol:
We talked about this before, crimes are still solved, but potentially not as fast. It’s fine for building a case on some petty drug dealer, but it certainly helps having a bigger arsenal when you are racing against the clock on an important case (kidnapping, missing person, etc…).
The thing here is that the person can still be made to unlock their phone with an order from a judge, and be charged for not doing so, but that could still lead to people not complying. If you’re going to be charged, what’s another charge. I am personally against this decision. I think with an order from a judge, law enforcement should have access to evidence, and not rely on someone to give it to them. That removes the element of surprise.
It depends on the court right now I assume this will end up at the supreme court at some point.
Police are widely taking advantage of technology when their users don’t have a full grasp of whats going on with the device.
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I do enjoy this quote
“The next time a law enforcement official demands that Apple and Google put backdoors back into their products, remember what they’re really demanding: that everyone’s security be sacrificed in order to make their job marginally easier.”
Didn’t Apple change their iCloud log in with like a 2 step log in process ie password and stupid user set question/ answer
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In the case of the iCloud newds scandal thing, apparently a user could setup two factor authentication. Then the “hacker” could setup iCloud on another machine with the user’s email and password and it would give full access. A.K.A. it wasn’t really two factor.
The point that the FBI is at they’re pleading and attempting to get laws passed to mandate backdoor access into phones and other devices.
It’s pretty entertaining the the US government bashes China for highly monitoring phones/internet and building backdoors into everything…now they want the same things here.
And like I said before they can still get a warrant for iCloud data, Phone record metadata, and phone carrier data for location
Make sure to not use TouchID if you want your phone encrypted. There has been cases where you have been ok not decrypting a drive or unlocking a phone with a password and been ok but you can’t use the “I forgot my password” with the TouchID.