sharke
John McAfee has offered to hack the phone:
 
http://www.techinsider.io...-on-its-product-2016-2

Hacking is illegal. If the code isn't signed by Apple it is an illegal hack of their product.
 
I'm shopping for two iPhone 6s phones tomorrow, one plus. Both 128gb.
 
J

michaelhanson
Aren't there already a bunch of folks here that are boycotting Apple, iStuff and anything related to it? Just saying. 😄

 YES

ruse?
 
Jesse Q. Screed

bitflipper
Apple designed it so that after 10 failed attempts everything on the phone gets automatically deleted. A good design, IMO. 

Since when is it impossible to get at data except through the OS? 
 
I tend to think this is more about people being lazy than anything else. Or maybe it is a ruse - if Apple wins all the idiots might think their data is safe and not do any basic due diligence.
 
Or maybe they just can't figure out how to get the stupid phone open. 

This whole issue should be very reassuring for those who believe that the NSA can break into anything. And of course it will sell a zillion of the more advanced model iPhones to terrorists and drug dealers, who comprise the core Apple customers no doubt. But the truly paranoid will theorize that the whole exercise is a cover for the fact that the government already has the data and a way to crack the Apple system, and just wants to be sure that the bad guys do not realize it, and foolishly keep committing their data to a leaky container. 

As any techy knows, the password is only the lock on a door.  You can just bypass it and remove the disc which, I'm sure, they will have little trouble reading.

It's pretty amazing what data recovery experts can do with a drive. As far as I know, they used to be able to recover data from a floppy overwritten with zeros by moving the head a tiny bit off track. Not sure you can do that with modern hard drives but who knows what tricks they have up their sleeves these days. 

sharke
It's pretty amazing what data recovery experts can do with a drive. As far as I know, they used to be able to recover data from a floppy overwritten with zeros by moving the head a tiny bit off track. Not sure you can do that with modern hard drives but who knows what tricks they have up their sleeves these days. 

It is not that the data cannot be recovered from storage, but that the data stored is itself encrypted. Depending on the strength of that encryption, recovery is more or less useless. In fact the best way to wipe a drive is to encrypt it in the first place and then delete the passcode. That defeats all of the legendary methods of examining magnetic media with electron microscopy etc. 

The iPhone has a bug right now that causes a users phone to become "bricked". Apple has told those people affected that they are out of luck. Why should the government do any better than paid customers?
 
I guess they don't want to push this issue into court. However this goes, the winner will set a legal precedent about access to personal information. It's obvious that technology is moving faster then the law and there will only be more of these cases in the future.