Motherboard:
Apple’s next big encryption battle with the federal government appears to be unfolding in a largely secret court case in Massachusetts involving an FBI bust of a gang called the Columbia Point Dawgz.
Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion to unseal a list of documents in the case (embedded below), in which the government appears to be trying to use the controversial All Writs Act of 1789 to force Apple to help it decrypt what is believed to be an iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 9.1.
And:
All iPhones running iOS 8 or greater have device encryption enabled by default. But unlike the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone 5c, the iPhone 6 and other newer iPhone models have a hardware security feature called Secure Enclave, which makes cracking the device’s passcode significantly harder. Ostensibly, that would once again put Apple in the hot seat as the only one capable of helping unlock the phone.
Keep your eye on this one.
here’s to all that said this case was over. Not a chance.
Yeah, but as this is a criminal case with live defendants there are far more complications. Here Apple can’t do whatever it would be required to do behind the cloak [and dagger] of intelligence actions. Rules of evidence and cross-examination suddenly make the “undue burden” test a huge door Apple can escape through. Dead terrorists are a terrible Cause célèbre
and while drug-dealing gangmembers aren’t much better they’re a Hell of a lot more sympathetic than wannabe-jihadis.
so “law enforcement” is supposed to serve and protect. I would even lump “intelligence agencies” with this … yet they are trying hard to undermind the very way of life – that they are charged to protect.
That is, they are not suppose to just protect life – but life, liberty and the pursuit of happyness. Sadly they fail at all 3.
Also, they are suppose to enforce laws, not break them, though it may seem obvious, the obvious appears to escape the intelligence community.
Interesting how this plays out. Fanboyz would do well to remember that this is never about who’s right or wrong. Not too long ago, Apple seemed so far in the right in the case vs. Samsung. How’s that panning out?