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New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2015, @05:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2015, @05:54AM (#221587)

    Evanston is not in Chicago, it's a suburb, and the article is wrong as well, as Evanston is on the northern border of the city, not 10 miles north of the city. Chicago is bigger than the article says it is and yet smaller than you want it to be. Good work. You're all geographically ignorant.

  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday August 12 2015, @06:05AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @06:05AM (#221588) Homepage

    Somebody once used "its" instead of "it's" on an online forum somewhere. Nobody believed that motherfucker because he was too stupid to know English.

  • (Score: 2) by Daiv on Wednesday August 12 2015, @06:20PM

    by Daiv (3940) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @06:20PM (#221803)

    Yeah, well Michigan isn't Detroit, but that doesn't stop people from that mistake either.

    Ignore the little flaws, see the message.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday August 12 2015, @11:57PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday August 12 2015, @11:57PM (#222007) Homepage
    It sounds like you are unable to distinguish "X" from "X metropolitan area". "X metropolitan area" is often way bigger than X, and includes towns and cities which are not X. In the US, it may even include towns and cities which aren't even in the same state as X. In Europe and the US there are even examples of metropolitan areas which span national boundaries.
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