Apple vs the FBI

[Zkuq]

mornelithe said:

Zkuq said:

The FBI isn't even doing this to solve a crime. It's just petty politics to get more power in the future, that's all. See for yourself.

And as for this not being a backdoor, yeah, it's not. It's practically opening the front door unless you specifically got a stronger lock on it.

I guarantee you if this happens once, it's going to happen countless other times as well. Sooner or later it will be used like warrants, i.e. even when investigating lesser crimes.

I guarantee you if it's possible to hack, it's only a matter of time before others do it anyway.  So, you're simply prolonging the inevitable.  Also, the personal guaruntee's of people online, don't really matter much in a court.  The American public determined they didn't want the Government collecting data, and required the authorities obtain specific warrants for these types of things, the FBI got the necessary warrant.  

I'm pretty sure if Apple doesn't do this, it requires a jailbreak because this sounds like an OS update specifically tailored for the target phone(s). I don't think you can hack a jailbreak into a phone and if you can, we're really, really far from it happening in practice.