In case you missed it: someone got past FBI cyber security just by pretending on the phone to be a new agent who didn't understand how to get through the portal. Now, the FBI wants Apple to help them get into the phone of the San Bernardino terrorists.
By the way, the FBI locked themselves out of the phone, and tried to blame it on San Bernardino County.
And now they want Apple to create new code so they can get in (which would also permit them to get into any iPhone).The head of the F.B.I. acknowledged on Tuesday that his agency lost a chance to capture data from the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers when it ordered that his password to the online storage service iCloud be reset shortly after the rampage.
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F.B.I. personnel apparently believed that by resetting the iCloud password, they could get access to information stored on the iPhone. Instead, the change had the opposite effect — locking them out and eliminating other means of getting in.
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Mr. Sewell, the Apple lawyer, explained to the committee that before F.B.I. officials ordered the password reset, Apple first wanted them to try to connect the phone to a “known” Wi-Fi connection that Mr. Farook had used. Doing so might have recovered information saved to the phone since October, when it was last connected to iCloud.
“The very information that the F.B.I. is seeking would have been available, and we could have pulled it down from the cloud,” he said.
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When the dispute over Mr. Farook’s iPhone erupted two weeks ago, the Justice Department blamed technicians at San Bernardino County, which employed Mr. Farook as an environmental health specialist and which owned the phone he used. But county officials said their technicians had changed the password only “at the F.B.I.’s request.”
Mr. Comey acknowledged at the hearing that the F.B.I. had directed the county to change the password.
NYT
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