FBI Hacker Says Apple Are 'Jerks' and 'Evil Geniuses' for Encrypting iPhones

<i>That means, he explained, that “password attempts speed went from 45 passwords a second to one every 18 seconds</i><p>You mean the option on every Unix system I’ve worked on in the last 25 years? Either supporting a narrative, or this person is awfully wet behind the ears.<p><i>”At what point is it just trying to one up things and at what point is it to thwart law enforcement?&quot; he added. &quot;Apple is pretty good at evil genius stuff.”</i><p>Oh, rest easy, whippersnapper, we are a ways off from that. It’s what experts call a “design decision”. Keep taunting Apple, though, and they just might start take it personally. And don’t flatter yourselves, Apple does this to keep <i>everyone</i> out except the authorized user, not just law enforcement. But I suspect our FBI “expert” knows his.<p>But oddly when the FBI says “Apple” three times in a whiny voice, an iPhone shows up in my shopping cart instead of an Android phone. My conspiracy theory says the FBI is on the take from Apple, it’s the best advertising they have right now.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”<p>― Upton Sinclair<p>If I worked for Apple and had any part of this, I&#x27;d take his words as a compliment.

FBI complaints are the best publicity for iPhone security Apple could wish for.

This guy needs to re-read the 4th amendment. Its supposed to be hard.

&gt; “If you have another evil genius, Cellebrite,then maybe we can get into that front,&quot; he said, facetiously coughing as he said “Cellebrite.”<p>Interesting, wonder if Apple will see it as a challenge and make it so that whatever Cellebrite is doing impossible or much, much harder.

What I do not understand is what do they think is on a phone? If they have the phone in possession, then it is assumed that it belonged to someone that has been charged.<p>If their web of evidence relies on a single device their evidence is weak.

This comes us every few months.