Can the FBI Crack Another iPhone
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 10/08/2016 02:06 PM
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The FBI wants to crack another Apple phone.
This case they want to crack the phone that belonged to Dahir Adan, who stabbed 10 people in a Minnesota mall in September before being fatally shot by an off-duty police officer.
Adan is believed to have acted as an agent of ISIS, who claimed responsibility for the attack, describing him as a "soldier of the Islamic State".
Special agent Rich Thornton said that the FBI is "in the process of assessing our legal and technical options to gain access to this device and the data it may contain."
According to Thornton, the FBI has "analysed more than 780 gigabytes of data from multiple computers and other electronic devices" and is "conducting an extensive review of his social media and other online activity". He added that "We continue to review his electronic media and digital footprint."
It was not disclosed as to what version of the iPhone they are trying to crack. But ever since the introduction of the iOS 8 in 2014, iPhones and iPads include a piece of hardware known as the "secure enclave" that makes it harder to bypass the password.
"On devices running iOS 8 and later versions, your personal data is placed under the protection of your passcode," Apple's privacy section reads. "For all devices running iOS 8 and later versions, Apple will not perform iOS data extractions in response to government search warrants because the files to be extracted are protected by an encryption key that is tied to the user's passcode, which Apple does not possess."
It is unknown if the FBI and Apple have been in contact regarding the cracking of the phone.
Source: IBTimes
This case they want to crack the phone that belonged to Dahir Adan, who stabbed 10 people in a Minnesota mall in September before being fatally shot by an off-duty police officer. Adan is believed to have acted as an agent of ISIS, who claimed responsibility for the attack, describing him as a "soldier of the Islamic State".
Special agent Rich Thornton said that the FBI is "in the process of assessing our legal and technical options to gain access to this device and the data it may contain."
According to Thornton, the FBI has "analysed more than 780 gigabytes of data from multiple computers and other electronic devices" and is "conducting an extensive review of his social media and other online activity". He added that "We continue to review his electronic media and digital footprint."
It was not disclosed as to what version of the iPhone they are trying to crack. But ever since the introduction of the iOS 8 in 2014, iPhones and iPads include a piece of hardware known as the "secure enclave" that makes it harder to bypass the password.
"On devices running iOS 8 and later versions, your personal data is placed under the protection of your passcode," Apple's privacy section reads. "For all devices running iOS 8 and later versions, Apple will not perform iOS data extractions in response to government search warrants because the files to be extracted are protected by an encryption key that is tied to the user's passcode, which Apple does not possess."
It is unknown if the FBI and Apple have been in contact regarding the cracking of the phone.
Source: IBTimes
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