If they had any decency at all they should be arresting the president.
But hell would need to freeze over first. 😡
Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This news sparks joy. It’s a shame the FBI is wasting their time on petty political bullshit like this instead of going after real crime. What a shameful chapter for the FBI, and that’s really saying something given their illustrious history.
sundray@lemmus.org 2 days ago
unphazed@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They did that, twice. Even got a trial and 34 felonies. Repercussions? None. Honestly if you do your job and not only see nothing come of it but said felon has an impact on your job now I can sympathize a bit.
deHaga@feddit.uk 2 days ago
He would have been fucked if he had lost the election, and money won the election, money and the markets is the only thing Trump cares about.
Scott Galloway has the right idea
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
no one is gonna arrest the president for you.
you are gonna have to band together and do it yourselves.
enterpries@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Social contract is breaking.
No need to see any legitimacy in this government or its goons.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Right!?
Like ohhh. So important to see if someone liked a post. Meanwhile tech espionage and terrorists take over the world.
How dare we ‘radicalize’ over the idea of free Healthcare.
Absolute sham of ‘protection’.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It’s really great, isn’t it? But I’d leave you with one theoretical angle to consider…
What if the FBI actually did get into the phone? If so, then why would this information have been made public?
The only reason why, that I can think of right now, is that the FBI wants more people using Lockout. If so, the only reason I can possibly image for that is—there are actually some good commonly available techniques to keep them out of your devices, of which Lockout is insufficient. They’d want more people assuming that it is sufficient, and this news could accomplish that.
Purely theoretical… but the bigger point here, whether that framing is strategically true or miraculously over-thinking things, is that something does work. No matter what, you know something works.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I don’t think that’s a rational line of thinking, because there are documented filings of attempted file access into FOSS programs that the FBI are unable to influence and are completely unable to access, such as Veracrypt/LUKS encrypted PCs and GrapheneOS in BFU/Duress password entry status.
Now, Apple is indeed a proprietary ecosystem, and as such unable to have community outside assurances that their system is completely trustworthy. However, Lockdown has now joined the ranks of other systems of data security that have been proven effective against a warrant, perpetuating the cycle in which nations such as the UK (and the US during the Crypto Wars) have tried to overtly undermine the technology through public actions after failures to covertly crack them. You cannot classify mathematics, physics, or cryptography, and there is no such thing as a perfect backdoor (despite some senators’ opinions).
With all that being said, I still wouldn’t trust an iPhone, but I don’t think that proposed line of thinking meshes with the FBI.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s not like it was a press release, it was gleaned from a court document. I suppose they could be happy with what info they got off of it enough to let this prosecution fail if they can follow up the chain, but I’m still skeptical. Who knows, maybe they have a functional quantum computer they don’t want to advertise
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You create a great story but violates K.i.S.S.
- not saying they got in means they can’t use it as evidence. Sometimes there’s still due process
- even if they can get into lockdown mode, it’s clearly harder than not lockdown. Why conspire to make it harder?
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yes, probably so. I haven’t seen the designs of lockdown mode, but I get the case for my hypothesis being far fetched. Wasn’t trying to start any conspiracies. Please, you may ignore me.
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Honestly I don’t even believe this stuff anymore. I feel like our government would set up shit just to make it look like they don’t have as much control as they really do.
Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Always, always default to the simplest answer being the most likely to be true. In context, the government is too incompetent to manage such a thing.
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
You act like there’s a cabal of kid rapist running the world.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The “funny” thing is that anybody thinking that a mere 5 years ago would have been deemed a conspiracy nutter.
bampop@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s not by accident. Every right wing conspiracy is a ridiculous pastiche of the shit they are really getting up to, or intend to in the near future. No doubt Pizzagate was invented to make people incredulous about claims of secret cabals of kid rapists in elite circles. Every accusation a confession.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That is indeed something which has been very visibly and very often proven, again and again and again, in the last couple of years.
I reckon it was always so, but we just forgot it during the period after WWII and the ressurging of the far-right.
s23b@programming.dev 1 day ago
I bet they are making the frogs gay, too.