EFF to Support Apple in Encryption Battle [ or, WTF EFF!? ]

[Steve Kinney]

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The bizarre propaganda narrative about a locked iPhone that
belonged to a dead criminal suspect just keeps growing.  Now the
Electronic Frontiers Foundation has boarded the disinformation
train, via its latest EFFEctor newsletter and an amicus brief.

EFF to Support Apple in Encryption Battle

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/eff-support-apple-encryption-b
attle

I can maybe forgive EFF's casual assertion that Syed Rizwan Farook
was "one of the perpetrators of December’s San Bernardino
shootings" - since they used three names he /must/ be an assassin;
the FBI says he is, what more proof could one ask?

But in the same press release, EFF endorses absurd non sequiturs
that demonstrate painful ignorance of the subject matter at hand.
 The EFF endorses the assertations that the only way to obtain
access to encrypted data stored on an iPhone is to manually key in
a password on the device itself, that removing a software function
that deletes a stored key hash after n. failed decryption attempts
voids the security of the encrypted data stored on that device,
and that doing this to one iPhone would affect the security of all
iPhone users.

Either people without the slightest understanding of how
cryptography works /or/ how computer forensics works are calling
the shots at EFF, or someone there has deliberately stood up
strawmen for the FBI'a attorneys to knock down, or... damn if I know
.







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