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On Wednesday, the FBI confirmed it wouldn't tell Apple about the security flaw it exploited to break inside the iPhone 5C of San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook in part, because the bureau says it didn't buy the rights to the technical details of the hacking tool.
"Currently we do not have enough technical information about any vulnerability that would permit any meaningful review," said Amy Hess, the FBI's executive assistant director for science and technology.
$1.3m and no source code?
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FBI Can't Say How It Hacked IPhone 5C
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You'll be called to a post requiring ability in handling groups of people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2016, @09:12AM
Their response should be "ha ha fuck you", and not a single word more. Letting the world know that they can't do it again instantly was very weak.
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Friday April 29 2016, @09:16AM
They didn't say they can't do it again, they only say they can't tell how it works.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by hopp on Friday April 29 2016, @04:38PM
If they can't tell how it works, how can they prove they did it?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday April 29 2016, @07:47PM
They got the data?
I don't know how decoding mp3s works. And yet I can usually tell whether a program decoded an mp3 correctly.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday April 29 2016, @08:41PM
They got *some* data. If they don't know how it works, they have no way to be certain that data wasn't completely fabricated. If you decode an MP3 and you get white noise, but you don't know what the MP3 was supposed to contain, is it decoded wrong or is it just a recording of white noise?
(Score: 2) by KiloByte on Friday April 29 2016, @09:42PM
They already had that data before -- the phone was unlocked when the FBI got it. It was only them carelessly (or perhaps even purposefully) messing with it that caused it to lock.
The whole "locked phone" brouchacha was carefully tailored to produce a "werewolf case" -- it's hard to find a case with more public support than investigating a terrorist.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2016, @11:28AM
Or you know, they *can* do it again, but "improvements" made on devices newer than the 5c make it much easier.
If that were the case, one would expect they would make a statement like, "We can't do this on newer devices, everybody please upgrade to a newer iPhone, you'll be safe lolz."