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Snowden: FBI's claim it can't unlock the San Bernardino iPhone is 'bullshit'
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: March 14th, 2016
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/09/edward-sno...
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower whose NSA revelations sparked a debate on mass surveillance, has waded into the arguments over the FBIs attempt to force Apple to help it unlock the iPhone 5C of one of the San Bernardino shooters. The FBI says that only Apple can deactivate certain passcode protections on the iPhone, which will allow law enforcement to guess the passcode by using brute-force. Talking via video link from Moscow to the Common Cause Blueprint for a Great Democracy conference, Snowden said: The FBI says Apple has the exclusive technical means to unlock the phone. Respectfully, thats bullshit. Snowden then went on to tweet his support for an American Civil Liberties Union report saying that the FBIs claims in the case are fraudulent. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak also spoke out against the FBI on the Conan OBrien show on Monday, saying: I side with Apple on this one. [The FBI] picked the lamest case you ever could. Wozniak added: Verizon turned over all the phone records and SMS messages. So they want to take this other phone that the two didnt destroy, which was a work phone. Its so lame and worthless to expect theres something on it and to get Apple to expose it. Apples clash with the FBI comes to a head in California this month when the two will meet in federal court to debate whether the smartphone manufacturer should be required to weaken security settings on the iPhone of the shooter.
Note: According to The New York Times, the FBI has been misleading the public about the San Bernadino attacks for months. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles about government corruption and the disappearance of privacy.
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