Apple Vs FBI: We tried to help the FBI but someone changed phone's iCloud password

[Rayzer]

Steve Kinney wrote:
> On 02/20/2016 02:08 PM, Rayzer wrote:
>
>> > Transliteration... The feds tampered with the phone and
>> > apparently fucked up their own investigation.
> So according to this account, for reasons unknown the FBI violated
> the most fundamental principles of digital forensics by failing to
> make a complete backup of the stored content of the device before
> doing anything else with or to it.  Then /also/ quite deliberately
> destroyed its evidentiary value by delivering it into the custody
> and control of some random idiot.

My estimation? Yes. Absolutely. They are INCREDIBLY ham-handed and
brain-dead much like the Vogons in Hitchhiker's Guide. Yes...
Absolutely. Their forensics lab has been shut down and investigated a
number of times in the last few decades Yep unhuh!

-- 
RR
"Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers ... And neutralize them, neutralize them, neutralize them"


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