[Cryptography] More Apple news

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:48:28 -0500 Viktor Dukhovni
<cryptography at dukhovni.org> wrote:
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/san-bernardino-da-says-seized-iphone-may-hold-dormant-cyber-pathogen/
> 
>    "The iPhone is a county owned telephone that may have connected
>     to the San Bernardino County computer network. The seized iPhone
>     may contain evidence that can only be found on the seized phone
>     that it was used as a weapon to introduce a lying dormant cyber
>     pathogen that endangers San Bernardino's infrastructure,"
>     according to a court filing (PDF) by Michael Ramos, the San
>     Bernardino County District Attorney.
> 
> This seems so far beyond remotely plausible that one wonders whether
> the responsible lawyers can be disbarred for blatant fabrication...

One cannot, sadly, disbar someone for that which might merely be
astonishing ignorance.


Perry
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