We all knew
they could break in whenever they wanted to.
“The FBI says Apple has the ‘exclusive technical means’” to unlock the phone, Snowden said during a discussion at Common Cause’s Blueprint for Democracy conference.
“Respectfully, that’s bullshit,” he said, over a video link from Moscow.
Of course it was bullshit. Today
they broke in anyway because.. of course they could.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department said Monday that it had found a way to unlock an
iPhone without help from
Apple, allowing the agency to withdraw its legal effort to compel the company to assist in a mass-shooting investigation.
The
decision to drop the case — which involved demanding Apple’s help to
open the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, a gunman in the December
shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14 people —
ends a standoff
between the government and the world’s most valuable public company.
The case had become increasingly contentious as the company refused to
help authorities, citing privacy issues.
They still don't have a clear legal prerogative to do even that. They assume they do, though. What they hoped to achieve through the lawsuit was explicit legal permission to just read everything they want to whenever they want to. We know they do this anyway. But that's not enough. What they want is for us to love Big Brother.
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