Apple Fights Back Against Government Intrusion

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[TransJenner]

Always someone on the coli who knows someone from a shooting hoax. How does that validate it being real. Bring your evidence forward and ill "STFU".

Why would I lie ?? What do I have to gain from this , my job is litterally walking distance away

 

[BaggerofTea]

As they should, it would be an unmitigated disaster to create a backdoor to allow unfettered gov access

 

[thekingsmen]

Why would I lie ?? What do I have to gain from this , my job is litterally walking distance away

I dont think you are lying but i think you got your info from the same people who got it from the news. However it still stands...waiting for proof it happened the way you said it did.

 

[ill]

Update: The FBI dropped its case against Apple. They found a 3rd party company from Israel that could crack the phone without reseting it.

The reason this case was so important is it set precedent. Now that the feds have a new tool to crack iPhones, guess what they're doing?

It has begun: The FBI will unlock other iPhones in criminal investigations

 

[ill]

In other government tracking your cell phone news......

In Landmark Ruling, Court Condemns Use Of Stingray Devices

In a decision that could have far-ranging implications for Americans’ privacy protections from law enforcement, an appellate court has for the first time ruled strongly against the use of controversial stingray devices that covertly track citizens’ cellular devices.

Citing Americans’ constitutional right to privacy, Maryland Court of Special Appeals Judge Andrea Leahy wrote, referring to the Baltimore Police Department’s use of the devices in an attempted murder case, that “we hold that the use of a cell site simulator requires a valid search warrant”—a practice that has, to date, largely happened without courts’ involvement. The order upholds the decision of Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Kendra Ausby, who made the same search warrant argument in the case of Kerron Andrews, who was charged with attempted murder in 2014.

Also known as IMSI catchers, “stingray” is a general term for a physical device used sporadically by law enforcement agencies across the country, to fake a cellphone tower’s signal in order to track the location of passersby via their phones’ signals. Actual devices and specific capabilities vary by make and model, though they tend to be a few square feet in size. According to a an ongoing ACLU study largely conducted through Freedom of Information Act requests for purchase orders, at least half of the states in the U.S. are confirmed to have purchased at least one stingray for local or state police departments. National organizations, including the U.S. Marshals Service, Secret Service and even the IRS, also have them, though it’s unclear how often they’re used.

“This opinion is a full rebuke to the many police departments that have been using stingrays in complete secret and hiding it from judges and that have failed to get warrants,” Nate Wessler, an ACLU lawyer who specializes in surveillance and privacy, told Vocativ.

Stingrays are frequently used to aid in investigations, though they are not submitted as evidence at trials. In some cases, the BPD has tracked and arrested a suspect using stingray-provided intelligence, then dropped the charges after not mentioning stingrays in court filings. One reason to drop a case that rests on the use of stingrays is that the FBI pushes other agencies to sign nondisclosure agreements.

Leahy, writing about BPD’s use of a particular stingray model called a “Hailstorm,” condemned the secrecy surrounding it. “We perceive the state’s actions in this case to protect the Hailstorm technology, driven by a nondisclosure agreement to which it bound itself, as detrimental to its position and inimical to the constitutional principles we revere,” she wrote.

“It’s hard to find more withering language in any court opinion anywhere,” Wessler said of Leahy’s opinion. “I expect this opinion to be highly influential as other courts around the country deal with this same issue.”

The state has the option to push the case to Maryland’s Court of Appeals, its highest court. Representatives for BPD didn’t immediately return request for comment.

 

[88m3]

Read the FBI is opening phones for local police departments now. There's something really wrong here. I feel pretty torn about it.

 

[StatUS]

They probably bought a hacker box from eBay

 

[Red Shield]

Implying they haven't had this capability since the iphone came out

implying Apple, Microsoft, and other big usa tech companies don't have backdoors already in their software. Hell that one router company was found out through wikileaks... think it may have been cisco.

 

[ill]

Want to Track Bad Guys by Cellphone? Get a Warrant

Deborah Levi, a public defender in Baltimore, knew something didn't sound right.

Her client Kerron Andrews, who was charged with attempted murder, told her that he kept hearing funny sounds on his cellphone before police arrived at the residence of an acquaintance and arrested him. But there was nothing in the police report, Levi said, about police using Andrews' cellphone to track him to that address.

Suspicious, Levi filed a series of motions with the court aimed at determining if police had, without a warrant, used his cellphone as a "real-time tracking device" to get a fix on his location.

"We couldn't explain it," Levi told NBC News. "If (the cellphone) wasn't used then how did you find him?"

The motions ultimately produced evidence that police had indeed tracked Andrews' cellphone through technology that mimics a cell tower to pinpoint a location. That led to a major Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruling last week that such tracking of suspects without first obtaining a warrant is unconstitutional

 

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Want to Track Bad Guys by Cellphone? Get a Warrant

Yeah there's a series of fake cell phone towers out there than can triangulate your position I've read about these things before... it's very unconstitutional...

 

[ReturnOfJudah]