[Cryptography] Apple's appeal brief re NY iPhone iOS7 5s

Henry Baker hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Tue Mar 8 13:01:38 EST 2016


FYI --

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2752989/30-Main.pdf

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Basically, the brief says "you submitted to our abuse dozens of
times before and never complained; how come you're resisting
now?"

Perhaps Apple finally grew a backbone?

"the Supreme Court has rejected using speculation about future
harm as a basis to bar relief in a specific case."

This reasoning is insane.  E.g., "We can't afford $100/day to
keep lead out of the Flint water supply".  "You're speculating
about future harm; you're not allowed to spend the money."
"Sir, a number of Flint children have been showing up with
higher than acceptable lead levels in their blood".  Oops!

The brief also indicates that Apple has confirmed that there
is a "remote wipe" contract out on this iPhone, and the govt
is afraid that if they turn the phone on, that it will wipe
itself.

Interesting question: how would Apple know about the "remote
wipe" command?  Shouldn't this command also be encrypted?



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