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The FBI used a suspect's face to unlock his iPhone in Ohio case
When Apple debuted Face ID with the iPhone X last year, it raised an interesting legal question: can you be compelled to unlock your phone by looking at it? In an apparent first, Forbes reports that the FBI got a suspect to unlock his phone during a raid in August.
In August, the FBI raided the home of Grant Michalski, looking for evidence that he had sent or received child pornography. They were armed with a search warrant [warning: this documentation contains explicit descriptions of sexual abuse] which allowed them to search Michalski's computer for evidence, and during the raid, agents recovered his iPhone X.
The agents who found the iPhone asked Michalski to unlock the device via Face ID, which he did. They "placed the [phone] into airplane mode and examined it by looking through the files and folders manually and documenting the findings with pictures."
The facial unlocking was voluntary (or so they claim), and the Columbus Police and FBI have devices capable of bypassing the phone's passcode protection. So much for security.
Also at AppleInsider.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @03:31PM
This is also held as catch-22 "evidence" that women are superior beings. Well, some kind of circular logic.
There's the stuff from WSWS about the CIA Democrats. Everything happening right now, especially with 24/7 coverage of Kavanaugh and the apparent lack of time in the 168 hours in a week to cover the real reasons we should reject Kavanaugh--his support for torture, police overreach, disregard for the text of the Constitution, and possible perjury (perjury which isn't even being investigated)--, is a cynical political and propaganda ploy to boost Democratic voter turnout. And it might work. And given the completely debased and unprincipled state of the Republican Party... what else could one practically hope for.
If it doesn't work... I don't know. I think I've run out of fucks to give. No matter who wins, we're still getting a police state.
Well, one could hope that the working class immediately cease giving votes to either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. The Libertarian Party and the Green Party are better alternatives. The only thing keeping the Republican Party and Democratic Party in power is the mass hypnosis of a self-fulfilling prophecy maintained by human susceptibility to propaganda. Neither of those two major parties gives a damned about the working class, and both of them want austerity and war.
Goddamned tragedy. There are way more in the working class than the bourgeoisie. Yet we dance like marionettes.