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Originally Posted by tomsem
John McAfee has offered to hack the phone for free. Says it will take them 3 weeks. Hard to know what to make of that, but if that's possible then Apple's security is not as good as they say it is.
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I read how he said he'd do it. He talking out of his behind.
I'm pretty sure that the NSA has some zero day exploits they can use to load arbitrary code onto the iPhone to do what they want. Or use other trickier hardware intrusion methods. If national security were at stake, they could do it without Apple. Of course if national security were at stake, they would have come to Apple quietly and Tim Cook would have cooperated.
This is political. The FBI is using this as a test case. Apple could've quietly complied and set terms so that the FBI would get the data and nothing else. They could've put off the confrontation for another day and waited for a case more favorable to them publicly. But instead they decided to draw the line here.
I think the tech giants were deeply embarrassed by Snowden's revelation that they'd been handing over massive amount of user data to the fbi/nsa. Although this may not be the hill they want to die on, I think ultimately they will join Apple.