-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/2016 02:08 PM, Rayzer wrote:
> Transliteration... The feds tampered with the phone and > apparently fucked up their own investigation. So according to this account, for reasons unknown the FBI violated the most fundamental principles of digital forensics by failing to make a complete backup of the stored content of the device before doing anything else with or to it. Then /also/ quite deliberately destroyed its evidentiary value by delivering it into the custody and control of some random idiot. I find this narrative /very/ difficult to believe: >> The idea was to force the iPhone 5C to auto-backup to >> Farookâs iCloud account. With a legal court order, Apple >> can and does turn over iCloud data. For some reason, Farook >> had not backed up the phone for roughly six weeks prior to >> the attack. The executive said Apple does not know whether >> the auto-backup was disabled or enabled, but he did say that >> the previous iCloud backups, which were handed over to >> investigators, were sporadic. >> >> Apple suggested that the FBI take the iPhone 5C, plug it into >> a wall, connect it to a known Wi-Fi network and leave it >> overnight. The FBI took the phone to the San Bernardino >> County Health Department, where Farook worked prior to the >> December 2, 2015 attack. >> >> When that attempt did not work, Apple was mystified, but soon >> found out that the Apple ID account password had been changed >> shortly after the phone was in the custody of law >> enforcement, possibly by someone from the county health >> department. With no way to enter the new password on the >> locked phone, even attempting an auto-backup was impossible. >> Had this iCloud auto-backup method actually functioned, Apple >> would have been easily able to assist the FBI with its >> investigation. >> >> The executive only revealed this detail to reporters now >> because it had thought it was under a confidentiality >> agreement with the government. Apple seems to believe this >> agreement is now void since the government brought it up in a >> public court filing. >> > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/apple-we-tried-to-help- fbi-terror-probe-but-someone-changed-icloud-password/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWyRoBAAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0LwqkQAJpUkf2UqCYnAunxYFBOgkzH qBU2vZE9SrvUjNe553SDMxQZkxhYioxTcvQ/ZSSaFfuosaM6JlOfCBWO0/f1tyN1 /njsg0gl5hkYohuyPGogWykulg3S1n3i9VulRLNugH2atxqOVWMx8yFvf1BNcP7H 9QMY573CVyB2WTzEH7pYcV49/CNeAhOAGRzuO/lDCucXd8n50JBuD962MvT9CxdD GMAA2BgC5sH/68fWF3kgyagtPzbeDNMZraZfCOf0izML+WMfX52LdY8ZR/Gb+/Df gCGA6TsuWRkH+2bhht4b53mSl5gkuoGK7C3UAELCacRIBQ8UNxzF1Ij/S4MdW61h A2pGVV8smyMAR/kP7+QcO1FacEUxYa5aHsSWu+E6uWjkbqD878/z6NunGzJiOxQZ Vhj35s0lbKxBCyNrkutxDsY4wkiAEcQQ7t7h8TD5O+S4r53qoCVGV/rAAafdwizj 87P4FhbvgtOeijN1zn+N4eTTUlOixBTHV1TCwHYL7od7bWJ/DdvJX2q6zqQ1lEDV xrAndCdhF3CmaSHA24D4AC6mABGLDWo8cpQbtaIAfhvnrTFf01HOyjPNTZbiOXO1 US14iNngOaPMya4m0OENmKzqLHODxjYBPCyCcz35tWg/kOQz0TW8OkusfYigQZjm lAck6yMjRb1gMtYaQA+y =rqjq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
