...as they tell the FBI to FOAD.
This popped up on my FB feed today, so I did a little reading.
Situation as I understand it:
It seems as if one of the San Bernardino shooters had an iPhone, that the FBI has, but can't get into because Apple has pretty strong encryption, and apparently a function that will destroy the data if someone tries to brute force it. FBI REALLY wants into the phone. Apple says "Sorry, no can do, that capability doesn't exist." FBI, gets a court order that compels Apple to wright the software to backdoor their encryption.(actually to get around the brute force protections and let the FBI crack it.) Apple gets the order and says "Nope, still aren't doing it, but we'll go public." Hilarity on forums across the net ensues.
Apple's StatementCourt OrderFt. Meade has (apparently) no input to the situation.
I'm on Apple's side here. Yeah they were bad guys, but the government doesn't get to just compel companies to produce things that don't exist, so as to circumvent a major selling point of the company's product. Had the FBI just publicly said "Hey we'll give a million dollars to the software team that can produce this back door for us. We have a warrant." That'd be one thing. But AppleClearly has no interest in building this particular piece of software.