Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. is getting more time to argue against a court order that would force it to break into the iPhone of a shooter in a terrorist attack in California, a standoff that pits the company’s push to protect customers’ privacy against the U.S. government’s efforts to fight crime.
The company’s response in court will be due Feb. 26 instead of Tuesday, said two people familiar with the timeline, who asked not to be identified because the matter wasn’t public. The federal magistrate who on Feb. 16 granted the Justice Department’s request for an order forcing Apple to help the FBI had given the company five business days to oppose her order.
Week from today.
Maybe the FBI could sponsor a cool science project to get the kids at Sunnyvale Middle School to crack it. Then they could go play their online game to prevent them from being converted to the dark side.
The FBI wants to be lazy and demand Apple unlock a phone that belongs to the local government! So that city needs to break into THIER OWN iPhone!
Plus what happened to agencies speaking go each other do the NSA should have all the data they need. I read something about No Such Agency can read any cell phone traffic so they should have the data!
“…because the matter wasn’t public…”
Seems like the courts and the FBI expect reasonable levels of privacy. It’s a shame they want to fight us having the same thing.
The phrasing is awful: “… forcing Apple to help the FBI …” like “why wouldn’t Apple want to help the FBI?”
That is not what the court order does at all. The court order forces Apple to stop being the FBI’s helper and become their puppet.
You don’t force somebody to help you. That is not help. Help is voluntary. Help is not when you put a gun to someone’s head and require them to undo their life’s work.
Imagine a journalist covering Galileo: “… forcing Galileo to help the Catholic Church …” — why wouldn’t Galileo want to help the Catholic Church? What a monster!
What is even more amazing about this bad journalism is that without unbreakable encryption there is no modern journalism. A journalist needs to protect sources and gather information that governments and criminals can’t get to. Every Pulitzer Prize has a stash of secret data that goes with it.