<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:13 PM, John Levine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com" target="_blank">johnl@iecc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">In a recent posting to the Risks digest, Rebecca Mercuri is baffled<br>
why the FBI is demanding Apple write unlock software when they can do<br>
it themselves.  </blockquote><div>...... </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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So they just keep cloning the phone and trying 10 PINs until it works.<br>
This could take a while but as she notes, probably less time than it<br>
will take to appeal their case up to the Supreme Court.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/m/risks/latest#subj1.1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/m/risks/latest#subj1.1</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>She is confusing devices but the link makes it obvous that </div><div>the FBI has invested a lot into Kiosk phone and data services. <br><a href="https://www.fbi.gov/houston/image/loose-media-kiosk/view">https://www.fbi.gov/houston/image/loose-media-kiosk/view</a><br><a href="https://www.rcfl.gov/">https://www.rcfl.gov/</a><br><br>Table one in:</div><div><a href="https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2015/a1514.pdf">https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2015/a1514.pdf</a><br>Tells me that not only has Apple been presented with 10,000 data</div><div>extraction requests that there is a thriving activity equally as</div><div>large. Looking at all manner of data...<br><br>The number of offices so equipped amazes me.<br><br></div><div><a href="https://www.rcfl.gov/downloads/documents/cpik-brochure">https://www.rcfl.gov/downloads/documents/cpik-brochure</a><br><br>There are issues:</div><div><a href="https://oig.justice.gov/press/2015/2015-04-07.pdf">https://oig.justice.gov/press/2015/2015-04-07.pdf</a><br><br>There are espionage risks in the phone repair industry.</div><div>   FBI: Fourth person with possible ISIS ties in custody <a href="http://fw.to/o8qGUXd">http://fw.to/o8qGUXd</a><br><br>Interesting...<br>Is this an industry protecting itself?</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">  T o m    M i t c h e l l</div></div>
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