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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 12 2015, @04:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the prosecutors-want-access-to-everything dept.

The New York Times features a joint (and very one sided) opinion piece by prosecutors from Manhattan, Paris, London and Spain, in which they decry the default use by Apple and Google of full disk encryption in their latest smartphone OSes. They talk about the murder scene of a father of six, where an iPhone 6 and a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge were found.

An Illinois state judge issued a warrant ordering Apple and Google to unlock the phones and share with authorities any data therein that could potentially solve the murder. Apple and Google replied, in essence, that they could not — because they did not know the user's passcode. The homicide remains unsolved. The killer remains at large.

Except, there is no proof that having such a backdoor would conclusively allow them to solve the case and wouldn't require actual police work.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2015, @05:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2015, @05:38AM (#221582)

    They love to trot out pedophiles and murderers in support of ridiculous policies. But I'm sure they would also use their "lawful warrants" to crack the phones of protesters who practice civil disobedience. Thankfully, some chickens are coming home to roost.

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  • (Score: 2) by mtrycz on Wednesday August 12 2015, @12:16PM

    by mtrycz (60) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @12:16PM (#221654)

    You are several years late, but yes, that's the idea.

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