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bear94 wrote:Either they're lying or they contracted a tech company to run a brute-force algorithm to open up the phone. I'm not sure if the iphone has brute-force protection but I'm sure its something they'll have to look into. One thing that is scary is how much people do not understand encryption. Anyone here that has made an amazon purchase, checked their bank account, or signed into a social media account from their computer or phone can thank encryption for protecting them against having their data stolen.

The brute force protection is exactly what the FBI wanted Apple to disable. Once that was done, they were going to attempt to brute force it.

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Keith B wrote:

Right2Carry wrote: Don't know otherwise. Just seems awful strange that all the trouble they spent trying to get Apple to help now they are able to get in.

As I said in an earlier post, what the FBI wanted was a special version of software that could be loaded on a phone and it would allow access to the data. This would basically be a Pandora's Box and potentially allow ANY iPhone to be broken. Apple did not want to do that, and so the fight started.

Here is a customer letter from Apple explaining why they refused to cooperate with the FBI because of the type of request being made http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

Strictly a shallow marketing ploy by Cook. And now Apple is exposed...what a surprise, NOT.

I'm not sure how Apple is exposed now. If this was an Android phone they would have had the data a long time ago. This was also an older phone without the hardware security that is in the newer phones.

You say this was a marketing ploy by Apple. I say this whole thing was a big show by the government in order to use the "we need justice" ploy to get new powers, just like they did with the Patriot Act. The guy destroyed his personal phone but not his work supplied one. The NSA already has all of his call and SMS records. It doesn't take a genius to work out that there probably wasn't anything useful on this phone. Of course the government will NEVER admit to that!