![]() ![]() Assuming first that the NSA can get into the phone - then is pushing the envelope into the classified world,” Thomson said.įBI Director James Comey, when asked directly during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday if the bureau had tried to get help from “agencies such as the NSA,” replied, “Yes is the answer. “Apple is being quite creative with its argument. ![]() Peter Thomson, a former federal prosecutor who worked on special assignment at the NSA, told The Intercept, “I know of no case law that would put the burden on the FBI to go to the intelligence community,” adding, “I don’t think the NSA has to share what it can and can’t do.” Those agencies could presumably help the FBI do what it wants to do to Farook’s iPhone: place a modified version of Apple’s iOS operating system on the device that allows rapid, unlimited attempts to guess Farook’s encryption passcode. The NSA, after all, has long targeted digital encryption systems for exploitation, and, as The Intercept revealed in 2015, the CIA and NSA have been working for nearly a decade specifically to find ways to hack into Apple devices. “The government has not made any showing that it sought or received technical assistance from other federal agencies with expertise in digital forensics, which assistance might obviate the need to conscript Apple to create the back door it now seeks,” the company’s attorneys wrote. Anyone have a cite? It's important.Īpple itself raised those questions in a court filing. I hear the made a sworn declaration that there are no alternative means to unlock the #Apple phone. Couldn’t the NSA break open the phone? If it could, why didn’t it? The Twitterverse exploded with questions. ![]() The bureau told a judge in February that Apple has the “exclusive technical means” to try to unlock the contents of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone - and that’s why it should be forced to do so.īut notably missing from the FBI’s argument was any mention of whether it had consulted spies and sleuths from the government’s intelligence community - particularly the National Security Agency. The Federal Bureau of Investigation insisted that it was helpless. ![]()
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