feds can't decrypt iPhone data

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Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm »

Wow.
Court documents show that federal agents were so stymied by the encrypted iPhone 4S of a Kentucky man accused of distributing crack cocaine that they turned to Apple for decryption help last year.

You have to be shitting me.
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Somewhere a hacker just read that article and thought, "So only Apple can decrypt it, huh? Not for long..."
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Put another way, Apple turns over customer data whenever the feds ask.
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There's a waiting list. No, seriously. In the article.
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