| mornelithe said: As is my understanding, it actually requires a special version of the OS to not wipe itself upon 10 wrong entries of the PW, does it not? So yeah, Apple made it this way, they should've known eventually this was going to happen. Crimes are committed, criminals often use electronic devices to aid said crimes, said electronic devices will need to be examined when said criminals commit whatever bullshit they're up to. And considering the coverage this has gotten, I'm pretty sure it's safe to assume this is the first instance of this request being necessary. |
No.. Apple proposed 4 ways to unlock the phone without creating a special OS version but the FBI wants the special OS version with the backdoor.. There should be no need to build a special OS version with a FBI backdoor
The executives said the company had been in regular discussions with the government since early January, and that it proposed four different ways to recover the information the government is interested in without building a backdoor. One of those methods would have involved connecting the iPhone to a known Wi-Fi network.
Apple sent engineers to try that method, the executives said, but the experts were unable to do it. It was then that they discovered that the Apple ID password associated with the phone had been changed. (The FBI claims this was done by someone at the San Bernardino Health Department.)
Had that password not been changed, the executives said, the government would not need to demand the company create a “backdoor” to access the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook
Face the future.. Gamecenter ID: nikkom_nl (oh no he didn't!!)
