Why would you use Apple software/services for anything like this? You know it's backdoored.
FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
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Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#12Oh boy, that ever useful boogeyman >“In December 2019, the Washington Post reported that Elbakyan was being investigated by the US Justice Department on suspicion that she “may” be working with Russian intelligence to “steal U.S. military secrets...” When you start trotting that out, you know it’s a witch-hunt because if they had real reasons they’d have stated them, since they don’t they offer vague insinuations cou…
> And whatever happened to Apple who refused to work with FBI on the San Bernardino shooter but here is only happy to comply in a much less interesting case?
Nothing. It's just a matter of technical means. They had no means of unlocking that phone without potentially compromising all the rest of the phones they've made before that point. But Apple account / emails are "in the cloud", so Apple has full access to it.
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#13If the email is genuine, then we are officially lost. Apple has gone from the company that refused to break into the San Bernadino shooter's phone (Anyone remember the feature by Last Week Tonight and Tim Cook talking about writing "the software equivalent of cancer"?) to the company that dutifully does what the authorities demand when they bring down the hammer over copyright claims.
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#14I hope she will be OK, Kazakhstan isn't safe to hide from the US and made deals to resettle[1][2] former gitmo inmates now under surveillance 24/7 (payrolled by the US). If the charges are spun as working with Russian intelligence to “steal U.S. military secrets...” she will remain vulnerable.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotfi_Bin_Ali#Transfer_to_Kaza...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lotfi+Bin+Ali+k...
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#15If the email is genuine, then we are officially lost. Apple has gone from the company that refused to break into the San Bernadino shooter's phone (Anyone remember the feature by Last Week Tonight and Tim Cook talking about writing "the software equivalent of cancer"?) to the company that dutifully does what the authorities demand when they bring down the hammer over copyright claims.
This comment shows a gross misunderstanding of the technical differences between 1) basically breaking encryption for all iPhones on the market simultaneously, and 2) copying a file.
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#16If the email is genuine, then we are officially lost. Apple has gone from the company that refused to break into the San Bernadino shooter's phone (Anyone remember the feature by Last Week Tonight and Tim Cook talking about writing "the software equivalent of cancer"?) to the company that dutifully does what the authorities demand when they bring down the hammer over copyright claims.
And apparently the request to Apple happened in Feb 2019.
So, not a recent change?
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#17If the email is genuine, then we are officially lost. Apple has gone from the company that refused to break into the San Bernadino shooter's phone (Anyone remember the feature by Last Week Tonight and Tim Cook talking about writing "the software equivalent of cancer"?) to the company that dutifully does what the authorities demand when they bring down the hammer over copyright claims.
This comment shows a gross misunderstanding of the technical differences between 1) basically breaking encryption for all iPhones on the market simultaneously, and 2) copying a file.
Only if the file contents are accessible. Why isn't end-to-end encryption utilized for storage of email on Apple's servers, the same way they do for iMessaging?
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#18If the email is genuine, then we are officially lost. Apple has gone from the company that refused to break into the San Bernadino shooter's phone (Anyone remember the feature by Last Week Tonight and Tim Cook talking about writing "the software equivalent of cancer"?) to the company that dutifully does what the authorities demand when they bring down the hammer over copyright claims.
Apple has always been subject to US law, and as such, was always required to provide information that they do have access to. If it's in iCloud, most of it can be extracted by the law enforcement with court order.
Nothing changed between now and the San Bernardino case. The difference was that FBI wanted Apple to compromise device encryption, which capability does _not_ exist now.
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#19Oh boy, that ever useful boogeyman >“In December 2019, the Washington Post reported that Elbakyan was being investigated by the US Justice Department on suspicion that she “may” be working with Russian intelligence to “steal U.S. military secrets...” When you start trotting that out, you know it’s a witch-hunt because if they had real reasons they’d have stated them, since they don’t they offer vague insinuations cou…
> And whatever happened to Apple who refused to work with FBI on the San Bernardino shooter but here is only happy to comply in a much less interesting case? Nothing. It's just a matter of technical means. They had no means of unlocking that phone without potentially compromising all the rest of the phones they've made before that point. But Apple account / emails are "in the cloud", so Apple has full access to it.
Apple has always bragged about iMessage content being end-to-end encrypted, and thus inaccessible even to Apple. Why aren't they doing the same with email and other files, like other providers? (ProtonMail, to name one example)
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#20If the email is genuine, then we are officially lost. Apple has gone from the company that refused to break into the San Bernadino shooter's phone (Anyone remember the feature by Last Week Tonight and Tim Cook talking about writing "the software equivalent of cancer"?) to the company that dutifully does what the authorities demand when they bring down the hammer over copyright claims.
Apple has always been subject to US law, and as such, was always required to provide information that they do have access to. If it's in iCloud, most of it can be extracted by the law enforcement with court order. Nothing changed between now and the San Bernardino case. The difference was that FBI wanted Apple to compromise device encryption, which capability does _not_ exist now.
So why hasn't end-to-end encryption been utilized for years with the storage of email and other files, like they do with iMessage content?