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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.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2015, @06:31AM
If they can really make a phone that can't be cracked then it is, pretty much by definition, equally capable of being unrootable and unjailbreakable too.
What? The point is to put all the power in the hands of the user. That includes Free Software, or else it can't truly be trusted.