Timeline for Apple's open letter - they can't or won't backdoor iOS?
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| Mar 31, 2016 at 14:53 | history | edited | TTT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Add another update.
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| Mar 21, 2016 at 22:46 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 21, 2016 at 22:25 | comment | added | Phil Lello | I'm disappointed if there's no incremental lockout after multiple failed pin codes. It was probably a stalling tactic for PR. | |
| Mar 14, 2016 at 14:50 | history | edited | TTT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed wording error
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| Mar 14, 2016 at 14:43 | history | edited | TTT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added new information regarding the passcode.
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| Feb 24, 2016 at 13:47 | vote | accept | TTT | ||
| Feb 24, 2016 at 13:47 | history | edited | TTT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Explain that it is theoretically possible to brute force the pin.
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| Feb 20, 2016 at 20:11 | comment | added | Luke | @PeterA.Schneider except prior to iOS 8 they didn't need to actually create modified versions of the system to access the data. techcrunch.com/2016/02/18/… | |
| Feb 20, 2016 at 18:55 | history | edited | TTT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Explain the meaning of the word backdoor as it is relevant to this case.
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| Feb 19, 2016 at 15:40 | comment | added | FooBar | Note: The FBI requiring them to open it doesn't mean that the FBI actually needs their assistance. It might as well be the FBI already has all it needs; and that the FBI is trying to create a precedence based on a hundreds-years-old law and a terrorism case to force Apple into cooperating on the backdoor, just for future cases. | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 6:31 | comment | added | Wildcard | @PeterA.Schneider, I think the following quote from that article is relevant: "It wasn’t until after the revelations of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that Apple began to position itself so forcefully as a guardian of privacy protection in the face of a vast government surveillance apparatus. Perhaps Apple was taken aback by the scale of NSA spying that Snowden revealed. Or perhaps it was embarassed by its own role in it." | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 1:08 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | Cf. thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/…. They can, and they have. It's a PR stunt. (For some reason I cannot answer or I'd make it one.) | |
| Feb 18, 2016 at 20:52 | history | protected | D.W. | ||
| Feb 18, 2016 at 13:42 | answer | added | micheal65536 | timeline score: -6 | |
| S Feb 18, 2016 at 12:41 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Feb 18, 2016 at 12:41 | comment | added | Rory Alsop♦ | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Feb 18, 2016 at 2:12 | answer | added | elika kohen | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 18, 2016 at 1:51 | answer | added | Phil Frost | timeline score: 18 | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 21:53 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/700075602854940672 | ||
| Feb 17, 2016 at 19:25 | history | edited | TTT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Removed an unnecessary sentence that was probably wrong anyway.
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 17:42 | history | edited | Mark Buffalo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
title changed to attract people from google :p
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 17:32 | answer | added | Agent_L | timeline score: 26 | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 16:56 | history | edited | Matthew Peters | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
deleted 25 characters in body
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 16:52 | history | edited | TTT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Add clarification date.
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 14:42 | answer | added | Mark Buffalo | timeline score: 45 | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 14:34 | answer | added | Matthew | timeline score: 66 | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 14:32 | comment | added | Xander | Only Apple knows for sure. The informed speculation I've seen at this point suggests it is likely that they can for the phone in question (an A6 based iPhone 5C) but probably not for newer A7 based phones. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 14:27 | history | asked | TTT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |