The feds have decided to drop their lawsuit against Apple after they refused to help them by creating a backdoor into their devices. The FBI said they only wanted the backdoor for just this one case (San Bernardino). Now a third party has hacked the phone for the FBI. Ana Kasparian, Brett Erlich (Pop Trigger), and Aasha Davis, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“Federal officials on Monday dropped their legal fight against Apple after unlocking the iPhone used by an assailant in last year’s San Bernardino terror attack, leaving unsettled a vexing debate over privacy and security amid rapid advances in technology.
The move comes a week after Justice Department officials put a sudden hold on their demands that Apple assist the FBI with an announcement that an outside group had offered a way to hack into the iPhone.
Aided by the unnamed group, FBI technology experts had been at work since, testing the technique to confirm it could open the iPhone without jeopardizing its contents.
The breakthrough came over the weekend, when the information stored on the phone was extracted, said a federal law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity.”*
Read more here: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la…
Comments
“If you’re completely innocent and everything is cool in your world… you’re not really worried too much about who can get into your phone. It’s only people that are doing some dirt, I think, that would really be concerned about that. ” Aasha Davis
That’s an incredibly dangerous way of thinking.
“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” Edward Snowden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
This proves that Apple was right – Apple didn’t need to hack their phones for the government – the government just needed better hackers.
I view this similarly to the government asking a safe company to make a skeleton key for a physical safe because the government wasn’t able to crack said safe. Fuck no, it is a safe, not a piggy bank. Asking any company that is responsible for securing people’s information or possessions to intentionally weaken their security is wrong ethically and is sad proof that the government is still behind the curve when it comes to hackers and combatting crime in the digital age.