---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <nch432$ks0$1@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:44:48 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Apple On FBI iPhone Request: 'The Founders Would Be Appalled' Apple says the government "attempts to rewrite history" with its request for help unlocking an iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters by stretching the law far wider than the Constitution and the lawmakers have intended. "The Founders would be appalled," Apple wrote in its last court filing before it squares off against the government in federal court in California at a hearing on March 22. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/15/470436785/apple-on-fbi-iphone-request-the-founders-would-be-appalled -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nch29g$d3e$1@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:14:08 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Justice Dept. Appeals Ruling in Apple iPhone Case in Brooklyn By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN - MARCH 7, 2016 WASHINGTON - In the latest volley in its high-profile fight with Apple, the Justice Department said on Monday that a federal judge in Brooklyn had erred last week in refusing to order the company to unlock a drug dealer's iPhone. "Apple is not being asked to do anything it does not currently have the capability to do," Justice Department prosecutors said as they appealed the decision made last week by Magistrate Judge James Orenstein of Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The prosecutors argued that their demand for technical help was a routine law enforcement request - no different from the "dozens" of times that Apple had agreed to cooperate in cases before this one - and that it "in no way upends the balance between privacy and security." http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/technology/justice-dept-appeals-ruling-in-apple-iphone-case-in-brooklyn.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <BFC66B5D-AA48-482B-82E6-46D514CB36EB@roscom.com> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:30:49 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist By JOHN MARKOFF, KATIE BENNER and BRIAN X. CHEN SAN FRANCISCO - If the F.B.I. wins its court fight to force Apple's help in unlocking an iPhone, the agency may run into yet another roadblock: Apple's engineers. Apple employees are already discussing what they will do if ordered to help law enforcement authorities. Some say they may balk at the work, while others may even quit their high-paying jobs rather than undermine the security of the software they have already created, according to more than a half-dozen current and former Apple employees. The potential resistance adds a wrinkle to a very public fight over access to an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/technology/apple-encryption-engineers-if-ordered-to-unlock-iphone-might-resist.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nch48k$lhb$1@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:47:47 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Apple to FBI: Go Ask the NSA Apple Lambasts the FBI for Not Asking the NSA to Help Hack That iPhone by Kim Zetter IN THE SHOWDOWN between Apple and the Justice Department over an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooting suspects, one question has loomed large. Why hasn't the FBI sought assistance from the National Security Agency - which employs some of the nation's top hackers to crack into the iPhone? Apple has touched on that question lightly in other briefs filed in the case, but today it focused on it more extensively in its latest brief submitted to the court. "The government does not deny that there may be other agencies in the government that could assist it in unlocking the phone and accessing its data; rather, it claims, without support, that it has no obligation to consult other agencies," Apple wrote, noting that FBI Director James Comey danced around the question of NSA assistance when asked about it during a recent congressional hearing. http://www.wired.com/2016/03/apple-lambasts-fbi-not-asking-nsa-help-hack-iphone/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nch4o1$ne8$1@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:55:59 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Copy of the order issued to Apple in the San Bernardino case The National District Attorneys Association has posted a copy of the order issued to force Apple to help obtain data from the iPhone used by an alleged terrorist. It's not a technical document, but it gives a good insight into the legal paperwork and language the government is using in its attempt to compel Apple to hack IOS 8. http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/SB-Shooter-Order-Compelling-Apple-Asst-iPhone.pdf -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nch4u1$o71$1@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:59:12 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: In the Apple encryption fight, the FBI is now on China's side By Russell Brandom As Apple filed its defense against the government on Monday, FBI Director James Comey was in Beijing, meeting with the head of China's surveillance state. According to state media reports, Comey and Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun discussed ways to "deepen law enforcement and security cooperation." It was a diplomatic meeting, trying to warm a relationship that's been chilled by countless hacking and trade secrets incidents - but it was also a strange reflection of the bureau's ongoing fight with Apple. Both Comey and Guo are currently pressuring Apple to turn over the source code to iOS, as part of larger lawful access campaigns. In their desire for more evidence and more powerful investigations, the FBI and the Chinese government have ended up on exactly the same side. http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/16/11244396/apple-vs-fbi-encryption-china-source-code-backdoor -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nch5ep$qf5$1@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:08:07 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: The FBI has a big ulterior motive in its fight against Apple (I am shocked - SHOCKED, I TELL YOU! (bh)) By Jay Edelson and Christopher Dore When a public interest group wants to create new legal precedent, its first step is to find a client with sympathetic facts. Civil rights groups often search for figurehead plaintiffs with impeccable characters and captivating life stories. The National Rifle Association searches for clients with strong gun safety records and compelling reasons to own guns. None of this is improper - it's a strategic approach for cause-oriented litigation. But the public may not realize that the government employs this legal tactic as well. And that's exactly what is happening behind the scenes in the fight between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone. http://qz.com/642256/the-fbi-has-a-big-ulterior-motive-in-its-fight-against-apple/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nch61k$sqh$1@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:18:10 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Apple blames FBI for iPhone snafu Another country heard from in the Apple vs. FBI fight: the Daily Mail has done a great job of setting out the sequence of events and the results. It turns out that the FBI asked for the password change which has caused all this trouble. - bh + - - - - - - - - - - - + By DANIEL BATES for DAILYMAIL.COM Apple's 'deeply offended' Tim Cook vows an all-out battle with the government over encryption as he reveals where the FBI went wrong when they tried to unlock the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone * Apple CEO speaks at length on battle to stop FBI from getting court order forcing company to unlock San Bernardino terrorist's encrypted iPhones * He uses interview with Time magazine to reveal what Apple says are errors by FBI which could have avoided court battle It began on December 2 last year when ISIS-inspired [alleged] terrorist Syed Farook massacred 14 people in San Bernardino, California, and left behind an iPhone 5s which the FBI tried to access. [Apple CEO] Cook claimed that the FBI committed a tactical error by resetting the password on the iPhone's iCloud account, which barred them from accessing it. www.dailymail.co.uk -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 19 Mar 2016