The Real Story Behind The FBI Dropping The Suit With Apple [telecom]

Mar 31, 2016 1 Replies

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Bill Horne 10 years ago

By Frank Miniter

The narrative is that the FBI, with the help of an outside party, managed to hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists. Because the FBI was successful, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped its legal action that was attempting to force Apple to write software to hack its own product.

This narrative is too neat.

Maybe the U.S. government did find a way into the iPhone or maybe it didn't. But it's interesting that DOJ attorneys and Apple were about to face off in a courtroom in Riverside, Calif., when the DOJ suddenly asked for, and was given, a postponement.

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tlvp 10 years ago

Alas, Forbes is too clever for its own good. I tried to visit the link above using a browser (an ancient edition of Safari running on Windows Vista) that is adblocker-free, but Forbes sniffed hard, and balked, saying:

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Forbes should realize that there can be no sign that an adblocker has been turned off when there's no adblocker present to begin with :-) .

Until then, ... . Cheers, -- tlvp

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