Government officials did not go into detail about what was found on the phone. Because they found nothing and never really expected to. This was about FBI seeking legal permission for a blanket search of all American's Apple products, without warrants, evidence, or even suspicion of wrongdoing. Now that they've created a dangerous bug that could hack the phones of all Americans, whether they are private, military, Secretary of State, or even FBI agents, will they do the right thing to protect us? If they don't, we know for certain that they are now a rogue agency that considers itself above the law, with ulterior goals that don't include defending the Constitution. He would not name the "third party" that helped the FBI. And he refused to say whether the FBI will disclose this hacking method to Apple so the company can protect future phones from being hacked this way. Normally, in a situation like this, the FBI must hold a high-level meeting with the president's National Security Council to discuss whether to tip off Apple about the hacking method, according to a senior Obama administration official. Hacks are only possible through vulnerabilities in technology, and the same method used by the FBI could be used by foreign governments to hack Americans' iPhones. The FBI should have that discussion immediately, said Ross Schulman, senior policy counsel at the Open Technology Institute, a think tank. "The bug is, so far as we know, widely distributed and can give complete access to a device that so many of us rely on daily. Those are great reasons to tell Apple so they can fix the problem," he said.
Apple stood up to the government for our privacy rights. I wish more companies would. It's about time.
Didn't they give China the ability to unlock their phones as part of the agreement to allow children to manufacture their phones? Seems like a hell of a company!
China can deal with its citizens without our help. http://www.newsweek.com/2016/03/11/what-apple-do-when-china-knocked-backdoor-430993.html in the wake of the conflict with the FBI has seen a flood of misinformation about its actions in China in the press and on technology blogs across the world. Before explaining what Apple did and didn’t do in China, it’s important to emphasize the bottom line: There is no evidence that Apple has provided anything to the Chinese government that it’s refusing to give to the U.S. feds.
Apple's Retina display actually uses the retinas of Chinese children. 30 children are blinded to make one screen.
Hahaha. The Iphones haven't been named 2,3,4,5 etc just because of the model numbers. The numbers coincide with the factory workers age as they grow. Once they hit the Iphone 10 they'll start over because they'll have worked them to death. I just hope that model isn't the Iphone Z1. That might mean zombie children factory workers. Yikes.
