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Late last night a Twitter account associated with San Bernardino County said that it worked the direction of the FBI to reset Syed Farook’s iCloud password. Why does that matter? Because it would make the FBI liars.
As you probably know by now, the FBI has demanded that Apple break into the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone. Apple has refused, insisting that doing so would cause a terrible precedent. But both the FBI and Apple are currently waging a fierce PR battle over one of the possible ways that information from the phone could’ve been retrieved in the early stages of the investigation: Hacking Farook’s iCloud password and causing his phone to push information to the cloud remotely.
In a filing yesterday the FBI claimed that the owner of the phone, San Bernardino County, had been the one who bungled the auto-backup of the phone to iCloud (emphasis mine):
[…] to attempt an auto-backup of the SUBJECT DEVICE with the related iCloud account (which would not work in this case because neither the owner nor the government knew the password to the iCloud account, and the owner, in an attempt to gain access to some information in the hours after the attack, was able to reset the password remotely, but that had the effect of eliminating the possibility of an auto-backup) […]
But San Bernardino County’s Twitter account (which remains unverified but appears authentic) now claims that it was working under the FBI’s orders. Specifically the tweet said, “The County was working cooperatively with the FBI when it reset the iCloud password at the FBI’s request.”
This statement contradicts both the FBI’s insinuations that San Bernardino County acted alone and the claims made by an anonymous source from the federal government contacted by ABC News. That source said that an IT employee working for San Bernardino County was not instructed by the FBI to attempt a password reset for Syed Farook’s iCloud:
The auto reset was executed by a county information technology employee, according to a federal official. Federal investigators only found out about the reset after it had occurred and that the county employee acted on his own, not on the orders of federal authorities, the source said.
Gizmodo was on a call with Apple executives late last night under strange conditions that there would be no direct quotes and no names. They used the word “government” when referring to who bungled the opportunity to force the back-up to iCloud. At the time, it seemed Apple was referring to the FBI without saying so directly. But Farook’s employer was the San Bernardino Department of Health, which is also a government agency.
This is all independent of the question over whether Apple should be compelled to unlock the terrorist’s 5c phone directly by hacking the passcode. Some have floated the idea that the phone should have been unlocked using the deceased terrorist’s fingerprint, but that wouldn’t have worked for a number or reasons — most importantly, the fact that the iPhone 5c doesn’t have a fingerprint scanner.
We’ve reached out to San Bernardino County for comment and will update this post when we hear back.
Photo: Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook, as they passed through O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on July 27, 2014
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Court order demanding Apple’s assistance in unlocking cellphone could have been averted
The FBI has admitted that a reset of the San Bernardino shooter’s iCloud passcode was done with the agency’s consent in the days following the terror attack, which left 14 people dead.
In a statement released late on Saturday, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said, “FBI investigators worked cooperatively with the county of San Bernardino in order to exploit crucial data contained in the iCloud account associated with a county-issued iPhone that was assigned to the terror suspect, Syed Rizwan Farook.”
The statement is the latest development in an ongoing repartee between Apple Inc. and federal prosecutors, who won approval of a court order on Tuesday compelling the tech giant to unlock the iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the two shooters in the San Bernardino attack. Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people and injured 21 in an assault on a holiday party at the San Bernardino Regional Center before they were killed by police in December.
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Apple has opposed the order, accusing the U.S. government of overreach. In response, the Justice Department said in a court filing on Friday that the company’s reluctance, “appears to be based on its concern for its business model and public brand marketing strategy.”
That touched off a series of disclosures by both sides about what transpired prior to this week’s public row, including Apple’s contention that the information the FBI is attempting to retrieve could have been accessed had the agency not reset the phone’s passcode, according to USA Today.
In the Friday filing, prosecutors acknowledged that the iCloud passcode was reset in the hours immediately following the attack by authorities for San Bernardino County, the phone’s owner of record. The statement on Saturday by the FBI clarified that the passcode was reset with the bureau’s consent four days following the attack, contending that it “does not impact Apple’s ability to assist with the court order under the All Writs Act.”
Apple asserts that, had the passcode not been reset, the company would have been able to initiate a backup of the phone’s data to its associated iCloud account in order to retrieve its contents. However, with the passcode on the phone no longer matching the one on iCloud, the only remaining option is the decryption of the phone itself.
Apple said during a call with reporters on Saturday that it had been cooperating with federal authorities since early January on a solution to access Farook’s phone data, having proposed four different means, the most viable of which was ruled out when it was discovered that the iCloud password had been reset.
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